June 21, 2017

Sony Corporation

Reschedule of the Effective Date for Company Split (Small-scale Company Split) from Sony Corporation into Tohoku Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

On April 7, 2017, Sony Corporation ("Sony") issued a press release entitled "Announcement of Company Split (Small-scale Company Split) from Sony Corporation into Tohoku Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in connection with the Transfer of Battery Business," in which Sony announced that it would transfer certain rights and obligations related to a part of Sony's battery business to Tohoku Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ("TMM"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony, as a step in the process of the transfer of the Sony Group's battery business to the Murata Group (the "Transfer"), and also that such company split was scheduled to become effective as of July 1, 2017. However, as Sony announced in a press release entitled "Reschedule of the Target Closing Date for the Transfer of the Battery Business from Sony to Murata Manufacturing" on June 8, 2017, the review process for the Transfer to obtain the required regulatory approvals is taking longer than expected.

As a result, Sony today announced that Sony and TMM have agreed to reschedule the effective date of the company split to September 1, 2017.

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