Regarding matters regarding controlling shareholders, etc.

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We would like to inform you of the following matters regarding our controlling shareholders, etc.

1. Trade names, etc. of the parent company, controlling shareholder (excluding the parent company), or other affiliated companies

(As of March 31, 2024)

• (Note)Softbank Group Corp. ("Softbank Group") is the wholly-owned parent of Softbank Group Japan Corporation ("SBGJ"). 
  SBGJ is the parent company of Softbank Corp. ("Softbank") and owns 40.4% of the voting rights of Softbank Corp.

On April 25, 2024, the Company announced the "Expression of Opinion in Support of the Tender Offer for the Company's Shares, etc. by SoftBank Corp., the Company's Parent Company, and Recommendation to Tender" and on June 12, 2024, the Company announced the "Announcement Regarding the Results of the Tender Offer for the Company's Shares, etc. by SoftBank Corp., the Company's Parent Company" (the "Tender Offer Result Release"). The results of the tender offer are as follows:
In addition, SoftBank, the Company's controlling shareholder (parent company), plans to make the Company a wholly owned subsidiary in the future, and the Company is scheduled to be delisted.

Percentage of shares held after the purchase (as of June 12, 2024)
(Note) This table is an excerpt from the Purchase Result Release. The tender offeror is SoftBank and the target is the Company. Please refer to the Purchase Result Release for details.

• (Note 1) The "Number of voting rights represented by share certificates, etc. held by special related parties prior to the purchase, etc." and the "Number of voting rights represented by share certificates, etc. held by special related parties after the purchase, etc." represent the total number of voting rights represented by share certificates, etc. held by each special related party (excluding those special related parties who are excluded from special related parties pursuant to Article 3, Paragraph 2, Item 1 of the Cabinet Office Ordinance in the calculation of the ownership ratio of share certificates, etc. under each item of Article 27-2, Paragraph 1 of the Act).
• (Note 2) The "Number of voting rights of all shareholders of the Target Company" is the number of voting rights of all shareholders as of September 30, 2023 (listed based on the number of shares in one unit being 100 shares) as stated in the Target Company's Third Quarter Report for the 36th Fiscal Year submitted on February 13, 2024. However, since the Target Company Shares that may be issued or transferred upon the exercise of shares less than one unit and stock acquisition rights were also subject to the Tender Offer, in calculating the "Ownership ratio of Shares, etc. before the Tender Offer" and the "Ownership ratio of Shares, etc. after the Tender Offer", the total number of issued shares of the Target Company as of March 31, 2024, as set forth in the Target Company's Summary of Financial Results (22,757,800 shares), plus (ii) all of the Stock Acquisition Rights that remain outstanding as of March 31, 2024, as set forth in the Target Company's Securities Report (according to the Target Company, this is 1,580 First Series Stock Acquisition Rights for FY2018 (number of shares to be acquired: 158,000 shares), 2,160 First Series Stock Acquisition Rights for FY2021 (number of shares to be acquired: 216,000 shares), and 502 First Series Stock Acquisition Rights for FY2022 (number of shares to be acquired: 50,200 shares)), totaling 4,242 The number of voting rights (203,259) pertaining to the number of shares (20,325,933 shares), calculated by adding the number of target shares (424,200 shares in total) to the number of treasury shares held by the Target as of March 31, 2024 as set forth in the Target's Summary of Financial Results (2,856,067 shares), is used as the denominator for the calculation.
• (Note 3) The "Ownership ratio of Shares prior to the Tender Offer" and the "Ownership ratio of Shares after the Tender Offer" are rounded to two decimal places.

2. Name of parent company deemed to have the greatest impact on the listed company and the reason for it

3. The position of the listed company within the parent company's corporate group and other relationships between the listed company and the parent company

SoftBank Group operates in a number of businesses, including the "Holding Company Investment Business," "SoftBank Vision Fund Business," SoftBank Business," "ARM Business," and "Other Businesses," of which SoftBank, which operates the "SoftBank Business," is engaged in the domestic telecommunications business. SBGJ is an intermediate holding company.
As a core ICT service company in the SoftBank group, we are always challenging ourselves to acquire cutting-edge ICT technology, with the corporate philosophy of "Making Information Revolution - Happiness for everyone- Technologies Design the Future -". In order to provide high-quality IT services to our customers, we have been practicing digital transformation ourselves and working on reforms such as improving business efficiency and reducing costs. By utilizing this experience, we aim to be a business partner that will work together with our customers to achieve growth in their core businesses. We will support the IT systems of SoftBank Group companies in Japan, and contribute to the realization of a rich information society by solving various problems faced by our customers through ICT services while creating synergy with SoftBank Group companies.

As of March 31, 2024, SoftBank Group, SBGJ and SoftBank are the parent companies owning 54.0% of the voting rights of the Company as described above, and are in a position to influence the management decisions of the Company through the exercise of their rights as majority shareholders. However, SoftBank 's policy regarding the management of the Group is to respect the autonomy of its subsidiaries and, while ensuring their independence, to create synergies and continue to evolve and grow together, thereby maximizing the corporate value of the Group. Under this policy, the Company is responsible for its own management and manages its business based on its own decision-making, and we believe that a certain degree of independence and autonomy is ensured.
As mentioned above, SoftBank, the Company's controlling shareholder (parent company), plans to make the Company a wholly owned subsidiary in the future, and the Company is scheduled to be delisted.

As of today, two employees of SoftBank serve as directors of the Company. The status of concurrent positions held by directors is as follows:
Concurrent positions held by directors (as of June 17, 2024)

• (Note) As of June 17, 2024, of the nine directors and four Corporate Auditor of the Company, two, Mr. Kunihiro Fujinaga and Mr. Takashi Naito, serve concurrently as officers of the parent company, etc.

Four. Matters related to transactions with controlling shareholders, etc.
There are no applicable matters regarding transactions with SoftBank Group and SBGJ during the current consolidated fiscal year. The details and amount of the transaction with SoftBank are as follows.

Current consolidated fiscal year (from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024)

Five. Status of implementation of measures to protect minority shareholders when conducting transactions with controlling shareholders, etc.
As with other business partners, the Company determines selling prices for transactions with its parent company, taking into consideration factors such as the cost of the transaction, selling, general and administrative expenses, appropriate profits, and market trends. Furthermore, the calculation and determination of price conditions are the same as with other business partners.

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