Rakuten Group, Inc. announced change of Representative Director Mr. Hyakuno appointed as Representative Director to further strengthen group governance, including the mobile business, accelerate the creation of synergies between each business, increase profitability, and further develop the Group. As a result, representative directors of the Company will be three persons, Hiroshi Mikitani (Representative Director, Chairman, President & CEO), Masayuki Hosaka (Representative Director, Vice Chairman and Executive Officer) and Kentaro Hyakuno (Representative Director, Vice President and Executive Officer). Kentaro Hyakuno recently worked with Rakuten Communications Corp.

as Director in March 2022.