Hoya Corp (HOCPF) Q4 2021 Earnings Call

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Recording in progress. Simultaneous interpreting is available today. If you would like to listen in Japanese, please choose the Japanese button. And if you prefer to listen to the English, please choose the English button. The presentation will be shown in Japanese, so if you would like to To see the English presentation, please go to our website. Since it is time, we would like to now start the fourth quarter financial results for year-ending March 2022. You will be able to use the simultaneous interpretation. If you would like to listen to the Japanese, please choose the Japanese button, and in English, choose the English button. From our company, Eichiro Ikeda, CEO, Ryo Hirooka, CFO, and Tomoko Nakagawa, CFO, the three will be presenting. First of all, Ikeda, CEO, and CFO, Nakagawa, will be talking about the direction of the new management. And then, followed by Hirooka, CFO, he will be explaining the fourth quarter results. And then we will take questions after that and plan to end at quarter past five. Those who are participating via PC, please look at the presentation materials shared on the screen. Mr. Ikeda, please. Ikeda will first like to explain. The first two slides is 80-year history of our company. First of all, as you can see on the slide, Hoya Group was established in 1941, starting from optical and glass business. And it has been split into different businesses. And we now have today. And some businesses have been split and replaced in 2007. And the scope business has been acquired by M&A. on a non-continuous basis. Next page, please. And the driving force behind this growth is market selection. We would like to select, engage in niche markets where the company's strengths can be utilized. Development of technology products are based on balances betw...