Softbank Group Corp (SFTBF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you very much for waiting, everyone. Now we would like to start the SoftBank Group Co-op Earnings Results Announcement for the fiscal year ended March 31st, 2025. First of all, I would like to introduce today's participants. From left, we have Yoshimitsu Goto, Board Director, NCFO. Kazuko Kimiwada, Corporate Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer, Senior Vice President and Head of Accounting Unit. Navneet Govel, CFO, SB Investment Advisors and SB Global Advisors. Jason Child, Executive Vice President and CFO, ARM. Today's announcement is live broadcast over the internet. Now I would like to invite Yoshimitsu Goto to present you the earnings results and business overview. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for sharing your time with us today. So today is a kind of a summary for the fiscal year, a whole year, full year. So let me dive into the presentation. So the past one year, economical trend, market environments, it's been very uncertain, very unclear, continues to grow. U.S. tension has been escalated. Market, including Japan, has been confused with the situation. At the same time, unfortunately, we've been seeing ongoing conflicts across the regions. And after Mr. Trump assumed president, there are many policies, direction changes, which also impacted to the market. Of course, leaders, head of the countries, they always focus on the prosperity of their own country. But when you think about the worldwide peaceful system, optimal for everyone, which everyone has been enjoying the free trade in the past, but the free trade also making some disadvantage as well. And from that sense, U.S. position is not always selfish. The cost for maintaining the peace in global wide is something that we need to focus. Otherwise, we cannot really solve the situation....