Advantest Corp Sp/Adr

Thank you very much for joining Advantis Corporation's financial briefing for the second quarter of Fiscal 2024. Despite your busy schedule, I'd like to introduce the attendees on our site today. Mr. Douglas DeFever, Representative Director, Senior Executive Officer, and Group CEO. Mr. Tsukui, Representative Director, Senior Executive Officer, President, and Group COO. Mr. Mihashi, Senior Executive Officer, CFO, CSO, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy Group. Mr. Nakahara, Senior Executive Officer, CCRO, and Executive Vice President of Sales Group. Serving as a moderator for today's session, I am Oike of IR Department of Corporate Strategy Group. Today, following the report of the summary of the second quarter fiscal 2024, Mihashi will report financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2024, and then Rafiwa will present fiscal 2024 outlook before entertaining questions from the audience. We will close today's session at 5 o'clock Japan time. In today's financial briefing, we will use English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation. If you prefer to hear the original audio for both Japanese and English, you don't have to change the setting. Please join us with the default setting. If you prefer to Japanese language channel, you are currently requested to click the globe icon on the lower left of the WebEx screen and select Japanese in the menu. of my interpretation language. If you slide the bar of balance to the right hand interpreter, you will hear interpretation into Japanese when the original language did English. Today's presentation materials are posted on TDNet and our website. The audience joining us through a telephone line is kindly requested to download the materials. During today's briefing, we will project the Japanese version of the materials on the screen. The audience who prefers to see English version is kindly requested to download English materials. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that today's briefing contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainty, but may cause our actual result to be different from those in such forward-looking statements.

Firstly, Mr. Lefevre,

will present a brief summary including the outline of second quarter fiscal 2024. Please.