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[Foreign Language] Now, I'd like to turn this call over to KK, Senior Vice President, JAPAC and Japan CFO.

Thank you, Nishio-san. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Oracle Japan's earnings conference call. We've made a strong start to fiscal year 2027 with solid growth and broad-based strength across our business. We saw strong performance across key industries, including public sector, communication, financial services and manufacturing.

Our business -- our cloud businesses continue to perform well with strong momentum across both Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite. We are helping customers modernize their IT infrastructure while also improving the core business processes that run their organizations. The ability to support both is an important strength of Oracle Japan and gives us multiple avenues for growth.

At the same time, our established customer base remains a strong foundation for our business. Many customers continue to rely on Oracle to run their most critical systems. Our long-standing relationships and experience in supporting these operations position us well to help customers take the next step in their technology investments. This combination of cloud growth and a resilient core business remains one of our key strengths.

AI adds a further dimension to this opportunity. We see AI not only as a source of new workloads, but also as a way to increase the value of our customers' existing data and business applications. By bringing AI together with trusted enterprise data and established business processes, we can help customers improve productivity and get more from the systems they already use. This is particularly relevant to our applications business where AI can enhance the value of an integrated suite by helping customers work more effectively across their core business functions.

We are also seeing customers put AI to work through our cloud and database services. In July, we announced that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is building an AI platform using Oracle Autonomous AI Database and OCI to improve the efficiency of its information disclosure operations. The initial document search system is already operational, helping staff find relevant documents and previous cases more efficiently. This illustrates how our cloud database and AI capabilities can work together to address specific operational needs and make better use of information the organization already holds.

As customers continue to modernize their systems and adopt AI, we believe these investments will create further opportunities across infrastructure, database services and cloud applications. Our focus on helping customers translate those investments into business value while building sustainable growth across our business.

Also, Oracle AI World 2026 will take place in Las Vegas from October 25 to 28, showcasing our latest innovations in AI, cloud infrastructure, databases and applications. Selected content will also be available online, and we encourage you to watch and learn more about Oracle, more about how Oracle is helping customers put AI to work.

With that, let me turn to our financial results for the first quarter ended August 31, 2026. Total revenue was JPY 74.861 billion, up 13% year-over-year. Total cloud revenue was JPY 25.143 billion, up 31.7%, and represented 34% of total revenue. Operating income was JPY 25.918 billion, an increase of 22.7%. Net income was JPY 18.245 billion, an increase of 23.2%. These results provide a solid foundation for fiscal year 2027. Our priorities are to sustain momentum across our cloud infrastructure and application businesses, building on our customer relationships and help customers realize value from AI.

With that, I turn this over for Q&A. Thank you very much.

[Foreign Language] I have received a question from Tanaka-san of BofA. Two questions. We will start from the first one. Software license is growing, but is it due to large deals? Or is it a combination of multiple deals? And is this sustainable?

So license revenue always, in the past also historically, has been a volatile business for us. As and when the customer requirements pile up, they come and buy additional licenses. So in this particular quarter, there wasn't -- there were not too many significant large deals. There were a few -- there were 1 or 2 big ones. But other than that, it was generally robust demand across industries and enterprises. So nothing special contributed to this strong number.

Well, is this sustainable or -- I think since plus cloud, and so the revenue growth definitely will continue to be strong, whether it comes from licenses or cloud will sometimes interchange in between quarters. But overall, customers can use our licenses either on-premise or on cloud. And that's what Oracle just wants to make sure that the customer gets value out of our products wherever he uses them.

[Foreign Language] The second question from Tanaka-san. SG&A was JPY 7.1 billion. Are there any special factors included in this amount? And will you be able to maintain this level going forward? Please share with me the direction of SG&A.

Well, SG&A expense is a result of operational efficiencies that we are gaining. As you can see from our headcount numbers, that have dropped. So partly, it is from efficiencies gained, and also, there are some onetime reversal of expense accruals that also contributed to the number. Whether we can sustain these levels in the future, I think we definitely will be. The run rate SG&A expense will be lower than the past, obviously, because of our headcount levels. And definitely, it will be sustainable. We'll continue to look at opportunities to invest in people in the right areas, so -- but I think we should be able to more or less maintain similar levels of headcount in the future.

[Foreign Language] Next question is from Kikuchi-san of SMBC Nikko. The cloud revenue reached a record high in the previous quarter at JPY 2.6 billion. Were there any contribution from Alloys or timing of the payment? Or were there any special factors?

I'm glad that you noticed that our cloud business is strong quarter-over-quarter. I think -- as we've been saying, we have deployed infrastructure in Japan, not only our own OCI infrastructure, but also the different Alloys and DRCCs that we have placed with our partners. A lot of those Alloys are starting to consume and giving us revenue. And that is one of the catalyst for the growth. And other -- I mean, it's -- I cannot say that it is -- the growth is attributed to Alloys, but Alloys are one of the factors that is contributing to the growth. And overall, in general, we see a very strong offtake for Oracle's cloud products in the market. And we see a lot of cloud migrations across different industries and multiple enterprises.

[Foreign Language] Moving on to the next question from Kikuchi-san as well. This is about the headcount. So the headcount is decreasing and the HR expense is also coming down. So can you give me the guidance for the end of second quarter?

I think I did respond to this question partially. I don't have a number for the second quarter. As I said, we will continue to look at efficiencies, and we will continue to invest in the right areas. So you will continue to see the company make progress in this direction, but I don't have like an end of second quarter guidance.

[Foreign Language] So next is question from Mr. Henderson. This is about the HR expense. You mentioned that there was a onetime reversal, but can you give me a rough size of that?

I don't get into that kind of specifics, and it's not very relevant for our discussion. I mean, there are journal entries. We accrue journal entries. The previous year, there is an estimate that we take. And then, if that doesn't materialize, we have to reverse the accrual. So it's ordinary, very normal transaction. It just affected us this quarter, that's all, partially. And that's not the only reason why the expense is down. As I said, expenses are down because headcount is down.

[Foreign Language] Another question from Mr. Henderson. This is regarding a loan to the parent company. This was down by JPY 50 billion and partially was allocated to the special dividend. And the remaining balance is about JPY 160 billion, which will reach a maturity in December. So has there been any changes in the cash demand by the parent company?

I don't think it relates to any cash demand from the parent company at all. It is just the way we have been parking our funds from -- I don't know how many years, even before I became the CFO of this company. It is just -- it just makes a lot of -- even when Japan was negative interest rates, we used to get paid for keeping the money with the corporation. And so we continue to do that. It's got nothing to do with the corporation's demand or their need for money at all.

[Foreign Language] Moving on to the next question from Watanabe-san, SumitomoMitsui DS Asset. Support business is coming down in terms of revenue. And, however, the profit is up by close to 40%, if you could give me the details? I understand that there is an impact from the type of the deal, such as outsourcing ratio and the timing of the acceptance. But if you could elaborate a little more, that would be helpful.

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Just to note that it's a support business, but this is believed to be consulting service business.

Yes. I mean, I think it is consulting service because, again, I don't see support declining yet. So it's consulting, this quarter, was a decline, but what we -- I mean, as I said, our profits are better. We are looking at deploying AI as part of our service delivery, and that is leading to more efficient delivery of services apart from utilizing outsourced consultants as well. So we just want to be nimble in the new world, and we want to adopt all the latest technologies to make sure that our customers get the benefit out of the Oracle products and also they get benefit at the lowest cost possible.

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Now I'd like to turn this call over to KK, Senior Vice President, JAPAC and CFO.

Thank you, Nishio-san. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Oracle Japan's Second Quarter and Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Conference Call. We achieved excellent results this Q2, particularly in our cloud business, reinforcing our position as a leading cloud vendor.

While shifting our focus to cloud, we have also maintained steady order intake in our license business. We are pleased to share that 2 months ago, we announced our fourth alloy partner in Japan, SoftBank.

We have initiated a collaboration to offer services with data sovereignty by operating data and systems in the cloud under our country's jurisdiction. Based on this partnership, SoftBank will launch Cloud PF type A, a cloud platform service tailored for the Japanese market starting from April 2026.

In addition, AI services provided through Oracle cloud infrastructure will also be rolled out as they become available. We had a lot of cloud customers in various industries like public sector, manufacturing and financial industries. So now let me give you some examples.

Number one, ITOKI Corporation. ITOKI has developed a predictive maintenance system that detects signs of malfunctions in automated logistics warehouses. Using Oracle's AI technology, leveraging Oracle autonomous AI database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data science, the system collects and analyzes operational data automated warehouses with AI to identify potential issues in advance.

In the logistics industry, where automation and labor-saving measures are rapidly advancing due to labor shortages, sudden equipment downtime poses significant risk to production and planning.

To address these challenges, ITOKI has developed a predictive maintenance system, Smart Maintenance, that enables the visualization of operational status and analysis of operational data to detect signs of malfunction. This system reduces downtime and supports planned maintenance.

And now what I'm saying is going to be very important. By combining Oracle AI Vector Search, LLM and customers' proprietary data, the system delivers highly accurate responses. Additionally, it enables rapid development and deployment of machine learning models within database even at large scale. This is an extremely important development especially for Japan, and we are going to see more and more adoption across industries of these technologies.

Customer number two, Neo First Life Insurance. Neo First Life Insurance, a member of Dai-ichi Life Co. has surpassed 1 million policies by providing optimal and comprehensive coverage at affordable premiums along with fast and simple online support.

The company has adopted Oracle Database at Azure as the database foundation for its insurance policy management. By implementing Oracle Database at Azure, on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hosted within Microsoft Azure data centers, life -- Neo First Life ensures high availability and scalability for its mission-critical policy management system, which manages over 1 million contracts while optimizing costs.

Customer number 3, Tokio Marine Holdings. Tokio Marine has achieved profit growth, particularly in its overseas businesses through operations spanning 57 countries worldwide. As they expanded, there was a growing need for a more advanced management system that could facilitate the timely collection and analysis of overseas group companies' performance to enable decision-making and support smooth communication across group companies.

To address this, the company has implemented Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM as its global management system. This allows for construction of interfaces without altering the accounting systems of the overseas group companies, enabling efficient and timely collection of information consistent with those of overseas subsidiaries. As a result, various management performance indicators can now be analyzed in accordance with the granularity of the segment information maintained by the overseas group companies.

These were just to give you a sense of the broad outreach in the market that we have with our different products and services and to undermine Oracle's presence in most mission-critical systems applications and industries.

Now let me move to the numbers. Our total revenue was JPY 134.677 billion growing at 7.5% and compared to previous year, driven by strong growth in our cloud revenue. Total cloud revenue was JPY 39.129 billion, up 38.3% and now represents 29% of the total company revenues. Infrastructure revenues had very strong momentum, which includes autonomous database. Operating income was JPY 42.659 billion, increasing 1.8%. Net income was JPY 29.913 billion, up 1.9%. Total revenue and all profit categories hit record high for the second quarter. We also have a robust pipeline for the second half of the year.

And at this point in time, I intend to stick with my revenue guidance for the year. Thank you very much.

Back to you, Nishio-san.

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So the first question from Matthew of JPMorgan. It is about AI-related revenue and the breakdown of the percentage as well as growth rate.

Well, we don't break down revenues by AI because AI is embedded in all our products. So we can't identify sort of AI revenue separately. But the fact is that AI is driving and will drive our future growth in Japan. The segments that I have that we already split for public consumption is what you see in the supplementals, and they will continue to be the same. Thank you very much.

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The second question is from Kikuchi-san of SMBC Nikko Securities. You mentioned that the second half pipeline is robust. So could you elaborate what kind of pipeline is it? And the license in the first half was a little weak. So could you tell us that the pipeline of the license is stronger in the second half? Or is it the robustness comes from the alloy-related business?

Thank you for the question. It is a mixture of everything. We do have a strong license pipeline in the second half. And by the way, we do expect our license to decline in small percentages because the future is in cloud and growth in our cloud revenue will overcome the decline in license revenues as we go into the future. So yes, our outlook for the second half for license continues to be strong as expected, and growth will continue to come from our cloud revenues.

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Another question from Matthew from JPMorgan. So about the financing of the parent company, the Oracle Corporation, and as well as the cash flow. There are some concerns and probably that is impacting the share price of Oracle Japan. We understand that basically, they are not related. But if you can comment on the potential increase of the loan to the parent company as well as this concern about the minority shareholder, we would appreciate it.

Oracle Japan is an independent company, and we finance our own growth. We rely on the corporation for the intellectual property that it supplies to us, and it will continue to do so. So I don't think anything that happens at Oracle Corporation impacts Oracle Japan's independent business. I think I would leave it at that. Thank you.

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Another question from Kikuchi-san of SMBC Nikko. The question is that the first half expenses, the personnel cost especially increased year-on-year. But personnel cost was up from the second half of the previous year. So is it okay to forecast that this growth is smaller than the year before? And are there any other expenses which are likely to increase in the second half?

So for overall expenses at this point in time, we don't see any extraordinary increases or changes in the second half. There will be the normal increases that you would expect to correspond to a growing business. Regarding the first half personnel expenses, there was some onetime restructuring expenses. As we continue to look at our organization and refresh our people with the right skill sets to support future Oracle Corporation's growth. Some of these expenses have to be incurred at some point. So it's basically that it's a onetime expense.

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[Foreign Language] Now I'd like to turn this call over to KK, Senior Vice President, Finance, JPAC and Japan CFO.

Thank you, Nishio-san. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Oracle Japan's First Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Conference Call. We had another excellent performance in this Q1 attributed to growth of cloud services, especially Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The demand is substantial for our cloud business, which has led to acceleration in revenue growth.

In Software License business, we changed our list price in Q2 '25. Therefore, we anticipated that there would be a reactionary decrease due to rush demand in Q1 of last year. We announced the opening of Japan operations center to accelerate innovation in AI adoption by Japanese companies and organizations and to accelerate the adoption of sovereign cloud.

This center supports Oracle Alloy partner companies by providing operational expertise and technical assistance, enabling them to deliver a broad range of cloud and AI services and expand their business.

Regarding Oracle AI World in Las Vegas from October 13 to 16, starting this year, it will be called Oracle AI World. The new name emphasizes our commitment to help customers and partners take advantage of latest AI innovations to move faster, reduce costs, make more informed decisions and build smarter businesses. You can also participate online via streaming all live events.

We continue to add a lot of customers in various industries like public sector manufacturing, financials and information technology. Let me give you a few examples. Number one, Kubota provides products and solutions developed and produced in over 120 countries and regions worldwide across the fields of food, water and environment.

When advancing water environment projects across 3 Southeast Asian countries, information was previously managed in a decentralized manner using spreadsheet software and paper creating a risk of human error. Additionally, there was a need to strengthen internal controls and streamline redundant tasks. It was difficult to grasp information on profit and loss project performance in real time, posing challenges for rapid management decision-making.

To solve these issues, Kubota selected NetSuite, a solution that could be implemented quickly and cost effectively while offering high adaptability to change. Number two, Yamato Contact Service, which handles Contact Center and BPO operations for the Yamato Group has streamlined its customer support operations by leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure generative AI service and Oracle Database 23ai.

Specifically in e-mail support operations, they have successfully increased the match rate for proposing FAQs to self resolvable inquiries to 85%, roughly double the previous rate. This has enabled Yamato to automatically process and reduce approximately 20% of e-mail inquiries relating to TA-Q-BIN delivery operations using AI.

Number three, Toyo University. Looking ahead to its 150th anniversary in 2037, Toyo University is formulating a vision for its future as a comprehensive academic institution. To achieve this, a financial accounting system, enabling data-driven management decisions and financial operations was essential. While previously using a custom developed system, the university adopted Oracle Cloud ERP to reduce operational and maintenance burdens and transition to a sustainable, highly flexible system.

Oracle Cloud ERP is valued for its extensive implementation track record at universities, both domestically and internationally and its ability to loosely integrate with university-specific peripheral systems via APIs and its flexibility to accommodate future expansion.

Number four, AEON Housing Loan Service, AEON faced challenges in its traditional on-premise environment including end-of-life hardware maintenance, delays in applying security patches, difficulties in flexible resource allocation and the need to strengthen its disaster recovery configuration. Against this backdrop, following a feasibility study and POC for cloud migration using Oracle Cloud Lift Services, they decided to proceed with a full-scale migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

With support from Oracle Consulting Services, they achieved full cloud migration in a short time frame. This was made possible by high affinity between our on-premise Oracle database environment and Oracle autonomous database on OCI, coupled with a highly reliable project structure.

This is just to give you a sense of the broad outreach in the market that we have with our different products and services and to underline Oracle's presence in most mission-critical systems, applications and industries.

Let me move to the numbers. We have made some changes to the face of our income statement to better reflect how we manage the business so you understand our cloud business dynamics more directly.

Total revenue was JPY 66,275 million, growing at 3.7% compared to previous year, driven by strong growth in our cloud revenue. Total cloud revenue was JPY 19,097 million, up 37.2% now represent 29% of the total company revenue. Infrastructure consumption revenues continue to have a strong momentum which includes autonomous database.

Operating income was JPY 21,128 million, decreasing 4.8% and net income was JPY 14,805 million, down 3.7%. Total revenue again hit a record high for the first quarter. The profit categories were down mainly due to decline in high-margin software license business. We will maintain our guidance for revenue and EPS communicated at the start of this fiscal year.

Thank you very much, and back to Nishio-san.

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[Foreign Language] [Interpreted] First question is from Kikuchi-san of SMBC Nikko. There are 2 questions, but we will go one by one. First question. This is about the revenue of cloud service in the first quarter. Year-on-year, it grew by 37% and Q-on-Q, it grew by 12%. It appears to have grown significantly Q-on-Q basis, but is there any onetime factor?

As I mentioned in my opening comments, our infrastructure revenues, especially infrastructure [Technical Difficulty] Hello. I'm back. Sorry, I think I got disconnected.

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So did you hear my answer to the question? Or should I start again?

You were cut off. Please start over again.

Okay. Let me talk about the cloud revenue. So I think we will -- we saw very strong momentum, as I said in my opening comments. This is across all product offerings, especially infrastructure and even SaaS revenue growth was strong. So -- and I think there is no one-off factor affecting this. So we should see strong momentum continuing into the fiscal year.

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[Foreign Language] [Interpreted] And second question from Kikuchi-san. This is about HR expense. The growth is quite significant. However, in terms of number of headcount, it is not increasing. So what are the reasons behind it? And if you could share with me the outlook for second quarter and onwards, that would be helpful.

Yes. Regarding the people expense, we -- there are a few factors that is affecting the increase. There was a salary increase last year that was provided. We are also constantly changing and churning our people. So new people come at higher costs, with the right skill set, and that's the whole intention of the organization.

And we also had some restructuring expense that got into the P&L. And also a little bit of stock compensation expenses got affected because the stock price also climbed significantly. So these are some of the factors that are contributing to the personnel expense.

The second question on the outlook for Q2 and beyond. As I said, for the full year, I am maintaining my guidance. We should see some bounce back in license. I would expect it to bounce back for the remainder of the year. And we'll continue to see some good momentum on our cloud revenues. So the year looks very strong for us.

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[Foreign Language] [Interpreted] We have questions from Noda-san of CLSA Securities. This is about Oracle Alloy, when will it start to contribute to the revenue of cloud service?

Sorry. Sorry, I was on mute. So all the alloys that we have booked, and we have more alloys in our pipeline that we are working on. Some of it will start showing in our numbers towards the end of this fiscal FY '26. But the consumption will really accelerate. The alloy consumption will really start accelerating more in FY '27.

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[Foreign Language] [Interpreted] Second question from Noda-san of CLSA Securities. OpenAI and Meta in the U.S. are starting to use OCI for their infrastructure to do inferencing. So -- and if these tech companies wishes to -- wish to expand their AI service in Japan. And if they start to use OCI in Tokyo region in order to ensure secure their local resources, will this become a potential upside from Oracle Japan?

So this is kind of a little -- I appreciate the question, but at this point in time, it's a little hypothetical for me. It all depends on how we contract it and what exactly the nature of work would be and whether it's an Oracle Japan contract or not. But having said that, what we have seen globally, and you -- if you have followed Oracle Corporation's earnings call, we -- a lot of the biggest training model -- or large language models do their training on by default on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

We also have enabled OCI to offer these large language models to our customers as a choice. For example, our customers can use our generative AI service and use any of these LLMs, whether it's OpenAI or Grok or Llama to further their AI capabilities for their organizations. So there will be some linkages. And of course, it's going to be beneficial for Oracle Japan also. But I don't think I can answer your specific -- I don't -- I have an answer to your question specifically on this one. Thank you.

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