Announcement of Capital and Business Alliance Agreement with Sony Group and Koei Tecmo Holdings

Akatsuki, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby announces that it has entered into capital and business alliances agreements (the “Alliance Agreements”) with Sony Group Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Kenichiro Yoshida, hereafter “Sony Group”) and with Koei Tecmo Holdings Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Kanagawa, Japan; President & CEO: Yoichi Erikawa; hereafter “Koei Tecmo Holdings”) and conducted a disposition of the Company’s treasury stock through third-party allotment (the “Share Disposition”), as resolved at the Board of Directors meeting held today.