Hoya Corp (HOCPF) Q3 2021 Earnings Call

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Recording in progress. Please refer to our website for English materials. We are writing an interpretation of the earnings call. Please select English from the interpretation button on the bottom of the screen. Since it is time, we'd like to start Hoya Corporation's fiscal year 2021 or March 2022's third quarter earnings presentation. You can use the simultaneous interpretation service. If you listen to Japanese, please select the Japanese button. If you wish to listen to the English translation, please select the English button. The participants from our corporation today is CTO Mr. Ikeda Eichiro and Mr. Hirooka Ryo, CFO. CEO Mr. Hiroshi Suzuki is absent. As for the agenda of today, Mr. Ikeda and I myself will touch upon the succession of the CEO and then Mr. Hirooka will explain the third quarter results as well as the outline of the major businesses. And we will take questions and answers and we'll end at the 45 past three. And those who are participating via PCs, please look at the materials shown on the screen. Then we'd like to talk about the CEO succession, which has already been announced on the 22nd of December. You may know about the details, but let us explain once again. Mr. Hiroshi Suzuki has assumed CEO in the year 2004. For more than 20 years, he has been leading the growth of our company. But now he is in his 60s and he says that he wants to spend more time with his family. And about one year ago, he approached the nomination committee and agreed to step down when the business stabilizes from the COVID impact. The nomination committee, which has been discussing the succession plan for some time, began selecting specific candidates. Our company... is a company with nomination committee and other committees which separates executive functions and superv...