Roland, Asics, etc. (additional) Rating

Upgrades - Bullish Code Stock Name Securities Company Previous After ---------------------------------------------------- <5803> Fujikura Mizuho "Hold" "Buy" <7181> Japan Post Insurance SMBC Nikko "2" "1" <7186> Concordia City "2" "1" <1878> Daiwa House Daiwa "2" "1" Downgrades - Bearish Code Stock Name Securities Company Previous After ---------------------

Fisco Japan22:31 ET

Mirait One, RIKEN Keiki, ETC.

*Mirait One <1417> collaborates with Sumitomo Mitsui Finance & Lease for the preliminary development of solar power at 0.07 million kW (Nikkan Kogyo, front page) - ○ *Riken Keiki <7734> inspects gas detectors in disaster areas and manufactures maintenance vehicles (Nikkan Kogyo, front page) - ○ *MOL <9104> acquires a Dutch company, establishing a land base for Chemical ships (Nikkan Kogyo, page 3) - ○ *Toyota Motor <7203> suspends operations at 3 factories and 4 lines until this morning due to an explosion incident at Central Spring (Nikkan Kogyo, page 3) - ○ *Mitsui & Co. <8031> a major trading company, iron ore.

Fisco Japan19:27 ET

Sakata Inks, artience ETC (additional) Rating

Upgraded - Bullish Code Stock Name Securities Company Previous After ----------------------------------------------------------- <2269> Meiji HD Morgan Stanley "Underweight" "Equal Weight" <2768> Sojitz Mizuho "Hold" "Buy" <3110> Nitto Boseki Daiwa "3" "2" <7011> Mitsubishi Heavy GS "Hold" "Buy" Downgraded - Bearish Code Stock Name Securities Company Previous After ---------------

Fisco JapanMar 5 22:10 ET

Rating [Securities company ratings]

Upgraded - Bullish Code Stock Name Securities Company Previous Change After------------------------------------------------------------- <4901> Fujifilm Mito "B+" "A" <2768> Sojitz Mizuho "Hold" "Buy" <7729> Tokyo Seimitsu Okasan "Hold" "Bullish" <6752> Panasonic HD Okasan "Hold" "Bullish" <3110> Nitto Boseki Daiwa "3" "2" <5186> Nitta Tokai Tokyo "neutral"

Fisco JapanMar 5 19:06 ET

Teijin, Sumitomo Chemicals, ETC [List of brand materials from the newspaper]

*Teijin <3401> shipped samples of electrode materials, miniaturizing the Fuel Cell Energy for Autos (Nikkan Kogyo, front page) — ○*Sumitomo Chemicals <4005> focuses on Agrochemicals and electronic materials with a new mid-term plan, solidifying its foundation for a return to growth (Nikkan Kogyo, page 3) — ○*Mercari <4385> enters the MVNO market, allowing the resale of unused gigabytes on 'Mercari' (Nikkan Kogyo, page 3) — ○*Nagase & Co. <8012> establishes a new investment fund, creating a new company to transform its materials business (Nikkan Kogyo, page 4) — ○*Mitsubishi Corporation <8058> supports the introduction of EV trucks for Pharmaceutical Logistics comprehensively.

Fisco JapanMar 4 18:33 ET

Reasons why AI investment is not slowing down [GAINIANBANKUAI for today].

Although questions temporarily arose among investors regarding the generated AI, it has been reported that the funds poured into Artificial Intelligence (AI) by major tech companies, governments, and venture capitalists have ballooned to an unprecedented scale. AI technology is shifting from traditional large-scale language models to inference models and AI agents. Although inference models are based on large-scale language models, it seems that the responses consume many times more microchips and Electrical Utilities.

Fisco JapanMar 4 16:26 ET