Generating Cash Through Structural Reform and Asset Reduction and Allocating It to Growth Investment and Shareholder Returns

「Under the 14th Medium-Term Management Plan, the Company plans to generate a total of ¥30 billion to ¥35 billion over the plan period through cash generated by the restructuring of its Chinese operations, optimisation of its domestic businesses and asset reduction, as well as through bank borrowings and finance leases. The funds generated will be allocated to strategic investments of approximately ¥15 billion to ¥20 billion, including investment in AI data centres and renewable energy in the rapidly expanding North American and European markets and the rebuilding of its domestic production system, and to approximately ¥5 billion in shareholder returns.」