Rakuten Securities, Inc. (President: Yuji Kusunoki. Head Office: Setagaya-ku, Tokyo), a consolidated subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc., today issued the attached press release relating to its consolidated financial reports (based on J-GAAP) for the nine months ended December 31, 2015.

Rakuten Group plans to announce consolidated financial reports for the twelve months ended December 31, 2015, on February 12, 2016 (Friday).

In addition, Rakuten Group announces financial results based on IFRS. The attached financial results of Rakuten Securities, Inc. are based on J-GAAP, which has different accounting processes for transactions from IFRS.

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