Notice: Partial Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation

（Underlined sections indicate the proposed amendments.）

Current Articles of Incorporation

Proposed amendments

（Disclosure over the Internet and Deemed Delivery of

Reference Documents for the General Shareholders'

Meetings, etc.）

（Deleted）

Article 15 When convening General Shareholders'

Meetings, the Company shall, when

disclosing information related to matters

which must be described or otherwise

expressed in reference documents for the

General Shareholders' Meetings, business

reports, financial statements and consolidated

financial statements, by use of internet

methods in accordance with the regulations

of the Ministry of Justice, be entitled to deem

the same to have been delivered to

Shareholders.

（Measures, etc. for Providing Information in

（Newly established）

Electronic Format）

Article 15 When convening General Shareholders'

Meetings, the Company shall take measures

for providing information that constitutes the

contents of reference documents for the

General Shareholders' Meetings, etc. in

electronic format.

2 Among items for which the measures for

providing information in electronic format

will be taken, the Company may exclude all

or some of those items designated by the

regulations of Ministry of Justice from

statements in the paper-based documents to

be delivered to shareholders who request the

delivery of paper-based documents by the

record date of voting rights.

（Newly established）

（Supplementary Provisions ）

（Transitional measures concerning provision of

information materials for the General Shareholders'

Meetings in electronic format）

Article 1 The deletion of the Articles of Incorporation

pertaining to Article 15 (Disclosure over the

Internet and Deemed Delivery of Reference

Documents for the General Shareholders'

Meetings, etc.) and the new establishment of

the Articles of Incorporation pertaining to

Article 15 (Measures, etc. for Providing

Information in Electronic Format) shall be

effective as from September 1, 2022.

2 Notwithstanding the provision of the

preceding paragraph, Article 15 of the pre-

amended Articles of Incorporation

(Disclosure over the Internet and Deemed

Delivery of Reference Documents for the

General Shareholders' Meetings, etc.) shall

remain effective regarding any General

Shareholders' Meetings held on a date within

six (6) months from September 1, 2022.

3 These Supplementary Provisions shall be

deleted on the date when six (6) months have

elapsed from the date of enforcement or three

(3) months have elapsed from the date of the

General Shareholders' Meetings in the

preceding paragraph, whichever is later.