Masahiro Yamamoto - Chief Officer of Accounting Division Group

Yoichi Miyazaki - EVP and CFO

Hiroyuki Ueda - Chief Officer of Corporate Communications Group

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us for the media briefing for the Fiscal Year '25 Q2 Financial Results. About the document to be presented today. Currently it is 13:55, five minutes to 2 o'clock. We have just disclosed the financial results documents, which will be projected on the screen today without any physical documents. However, the PPT or presentation materials are made available at IR page of TMC website for download. We will be starting shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us today. Now, we would like to begin our press media briefing on Fiscal Year '25 Q2 Financial Results briefing. I am Eda [ph] from Corporate Communications. It is my pleasure to serve you as your MC today. First of all, I would like to invite General Manager Yamamoto of Finance Division for the outline of the financial results.

Masahiro Yamamoto

We would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to our customers around the world who chose us, as well as our shareholders, dealers, and suppliers who support us. We will now explain the summary of the financial results. Our operating income for the first half of this fiscal year was 2.4642 trillion yen.

Despite the impact of production halts and additional expenses, we managed to achieve operating income nearly on par with the same period of the previous fiscal year by strengthening our foundations and improving our business base through everyone's participation. We would like to