Keita Watanabe
Corporate Communications Department Manager

Now let us start the press conference. Now the presenters are as follows: Ms. Takako Sakai, the Chairperson of Nidec Corporation's Nomination Committee; Mr. Mitsuya Kishida, Director, President and CEO of the company; Mr. Masayuki Minai, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer; and Mr. Kazuo Nakagawa, Acting Chief Financial Officer of the company. I'm Keita Watanabe, General Manager of the company's Corporate Communication Department.

In this press conference, first, Mr. Kishida will make his opening remarks and explain quality matters and Nidec's actions on corporate revival. Then Ms. Sakai will present the company's new Board of Directors system, followed by Mr. Kishida's presentation on the company's matters on improving Nidec's corporate value. Then the floor will be open for a question-and-answer session. Please kindly wait to ask your questions until then.

Now Mr. Kishida, please.

Mitsuya Kishida
President, CEO, Chairman & Representative Director

I'm Mitsuya Kishida, Nidec Corporation's Representative Director and President. A recent inspection of Nidec Group companies led by the Nidec Corporate Reform Committee's Quality Working Group has reviewed suspected inappropriate misconduct on our company's products. We take this issue extremely seriously as quality is the very basis of the Nidec Group, which is a manufacturing company. In addition to the series of cases of accounting misconduct, we deeply apologize for the tremendous anxiety we have caused to our business partners, shareholders, investors, people of