Information Revolution - Happiness for everyone

That is the vision that all of us in the SOFTBANK Group are working together to achieve. By generating synergies between companies of the SOFTBANK Group, we hope that each company will become the customer's first choice in its business field. And together with companies around the world that share our vision, we are working to create new value. We will increase these efforts further going forward, as we strive to become No.1 in mobile Internet, and the No. 1 Internet company in Asia.

The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011 dealt a severe blow to society. Once again, on behalf of all of us at SOFTBANK, I offer my heartfelt sympathy to all those who were affected by the disaster. That tragic event prompted me to reflect deeply on the meaning of our business, and the stance we should take. Above all, I realized that information is itself a lifeline, and that, in that sense, we at SOFTBANK have an important social responsibility to fulfill. With this in mind, we are continuing to allocate our capital expenditure to increase and improve our base stations along with other measures to build greater reliability into our network.

The extensive debate about energy that emerged in the aftermath of the disaster has made me keenly aware of something that is obvious, but easily taken for granted: that telecommunications, and the Information Revolution itself, depend by their very nature upon the availability of energy. As part of the measures we are undertaking in pursuit of our vision we have therefore started a new initiative to examine the possibilities of developing a business around power generation from renewable energy sources.