Efforts to Revitalize Shareholders' Meetings and Facilitate the Exercise of Voting Rights

  • Early dispatch of notice of convocation for shareholders
    As a general rule, we try to ship 3 weeks before the date of the meeting.
     
  • Establishing a general meeting of shareholders that avoids concentration days
    After confirming the concentration date of the General Meeting of Shareholders with the trust bank, we set the date to avoid the concentration date.
     
  • Exercise of voting rights by electromagnetic means
    From the 21st Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on September 26, 2017, we accommodated exercise voting rights by electromagnetic means.With respect to the platform for electronic exercise of voting rights, the Company will participate in the platform from the 25th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on September 28, 2021.
     
  • Convocation notice in English
    Provided from the 25rd Ammual General Meeting of Shareholders.
     
  • Other
    The Company had made improvements to procedures of General Meeting of Shareholders such as presentation using slideshows and video archives. The Company continues to improve the meeting further to facilitate the active participation by the shareholders and exercise of voting rights. In addition, the Company posts a notice of convocation on the Company's website to facilitate attendance at shareholders' meetings and the exercise of voting rights.

The 26th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Convocation Notice

Date

Tuseday, September 27, 2022

10 a.m. (venue opens at 9:30 a.m.)

Venue

1-3-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Keidanren Hall 2F, Keidanren Kaikan

Objective

Report to shareholders

Business report for the 26th fiscal year (from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022), Consolidated financial statements and results of the audit of the consolidated financial statements by the accounting auditor and the Board of Statutory Auditors

Non-consolidated financial statements for the 26th fiscal year (from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022)

Matters to be settled

Proposal 1 Appropriation of surplus

Proposal 2 Partial amendment to the Articles of Incorporation

Proposal 3 Election of four Directors (excluding Directors who are members of Audit Committee)

Proposal 4 Election of Three Directors as members of Audit Committee

Proposal 5 To set the amount of remuneration for directors (excluding directors who are members of the Audit Committee) and to determine remuneration related to performance-linked stock compensation

Proposal 6 To set the amount of remuneration for directors who are members of the Audit Committee

Relosution

■Proposal 1: Appropriation of Surplus

This proposal was approved and passed as proposed, and the year-end dividend was determined to be 13 yen per share.

■Proposal 2: Partial Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation

This proposal was approved and passed as proposed.

■Proposal 3: Election of Four Directors (excluding Directors who are Audit Committee Members)

This proposal was approved and passed as originally proposed, and Tetsuji Morikawa, Naoyoshi Kasuga, Naohisa Fukutani, and Jon Robertson were elected as Directors.

■Proposal 4: Election of Three Directors as Audit Committee Members

This proposal was approved and passed as proposed, and Mr. Tsuyoshi Noshiro, Ms. Chie Goto, and Mr. Makoto Nakano were elected as Audit Committee Members.

■Proposal 5: Establishment of Remuneration Amounts for Directors (excluding Directors who are Audit Committee Members) and Determination of Remuneration in Relation to Performance-Linked Stock CompensationThis proposal was approved and passed as proposed.

■Proposal 6: Establishment of Remuneration Amount for Directors who are Audit Committee Members

This proposal was approved and adopted as originally proposed.
 

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