Nearly all of the board members had already taken their seats when Yuki Watanabe entered along with Inazo Aneki, the CEO yielding the right of way to the Chairman as she swept into the room and made her way to the head of the long table with bows of greeting to many of the members. As Watanabe took her place, Aneki seated himself on her right and glanced around the table. Nearly everyone was in place, the meeting almost ready to begin. He went over again in his mind what he would relay to the board members to quell their concerns about the news that was of such concern to them all, the reason they had been summoned here on such short notice.