Integrated Report 2022

Japan Tobacco Inc.

JT Group Purpose

Fulfilling Moments,

Enriching Life

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CONTENTS

006 At a glance

008 Our value chains

012 Key performance indicators

  • Financial performance review
  • Non-financialperformance review

016 IDENTITY

018 Our management principle

020 JT Group history and the values we cherish

022 Message from the CEO

"The moments that give consumers and people in society fulfillment change with the times. Staying close to their diversifying needs, the JT Group strive to realize 'fulfilling moments' through our evolving business operations, without limiting ourselves to what we are now."

028 Message from the Executive Vice President

"The significance of designating `Fulfilling Moments, Enriching Life' as the JT Group Purpose is in continuously communicating to the world

046 BUSINESS and STRATEGIES

048 Business Plan 2023

050 Message from the CFO

"Even in a highly uncertain business environment, we are working to maintain a firm financial foundation and accelerate investment to secure profit growth over the medium and long terms and raise shareholder returns."

056 Tobacco business

  1. Pharmaceutical business
  1. Processed food business

078 The Group's sustainability initiatives

  • Improving our environmental impact
  • Investing in people
  • Investing in people: Health and safety
  • Improving our social impact
  • Respect for human rights

088 GOVERNANCE

the reason for our existence through our work to realize it."

034 Our value creation process

036 MATERIALITY and SUSTAINABILITY

038 The JT Group Materiality and sustainability

044 CSO interview

"We will strive further by creating and providing values unique to the JT Group. We wish to continue our journey to achieve sustainable growth, together with our stakeholders, local communities and the society that we are a part of."

090 Executive roundtable

"We are working to further enhance governance to ensure that we remain a corporation that can fulfill and win the trust of our many stakeholders."

  1. Corporate governance
  1. Management structure
  1. Internal controls

114 FINANCIAL INFORMATION/OTHERS

116 Risk factors

  1. Regulation and key laws
  1. Litigation
  2. Long-termconsolidated financial data
  1. Glossary of terms
  1. Awards and recognitions
  1. Shareholder information and contact information

Cover story

The first few pages of the report describe the image of the JT Group Purpose, which has been described to clarify the JT Group's direction for its sustainable existence. We, the JT Group, will not stay in our current form, but will move forward towards the realization of "Fulfilling Moments, Enriching Life" in order to further contribute to the enrichment of society.

We would like to express our gratitude towards our stakeholders for the many comments we receive each year on our Integrated Report. We have incorporated these comments as an important element during the planning process and the production of this report.

Our Integrated Report

information

In this report, we integrate financial information, such as our management

JT website Sustainability

policy, business strategy and performance trends, with sustainability

information such as non-financial information that gives an insight into

• Top management message

• Environment

our growth over the medium and long terms. The purpose of this report is

nancial-

• Our sustainability strategy

• Governance and

to inform the wide range of our stakeholders, including shareholders and

• Respecting human rights

compliance

investors, about the JT Group's current and future value creation story.

• Improving our social impact

• Investing in people

Aiming to facilitate our readers to better understand the contents, a HTML

Non

version of this report will be available on our website from the end of June

2023 onwards.

• Results and reports

• For debt investors

information

dependent upon assumptions, estimates and data that may be incorrect or

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• Management information

• IR calendar

Forward-looking statements contained in this document are necessarily

• For shareholders

Financial

imprecise and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Actual

results, performance or achievements, or those of the industries in which

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we operate, may differ materially from any future results, performance or

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achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

Please see "FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS" on P. 131 for further details.

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At a glance

The JT Group is a leading global tobacco company and our products are sold in over 130 markets. In addition to the tobacco business, we operate pharmaceutical and processed food businesses.

IDENTITY

MATERIALITY and

BUSINESS and

GOVERNANCE

FINANCIAL INFORMATION /

SUSTAINABILITY

STRATEGIES

OTHERS

Global business foundation

Revenue (2022)

Processed food

Others 0.1%

business 5.9%

2,657.8

(JPY BN)

Pharmaceutical

Tobacco

business 3.1%

business 91.0%

Number of employees (As of December 31, 2022)

Processed food

Others 1.6%

business 8.2%

52,640

employees

Pharmaceutical

Tobacco

business 2.5%

business 87.7%

The Group's tobacco business has the third largest sales

consumers' trust. As of the end of 2022, the Group operates

volume in the world* and includes 3 of the top 10 global

5 factories in Japan (3 manufacturing tobacco and 2 tobac-

selling combustible brands in its product portfolio.

co-related factories), and 33 factories in 27 other countries

The Group has a global manufacturing footprint and aims

(including tobacco-related factories).

to manufacture quality tobacco products that secure

* Excluding China National Tobacco Corporation

Key market shares in tobacco business (As of December 31, 2022)

ROMANIA

%

29.5

27.4

RUSSIA*

%

ITALY

%

36.6

U.K.

45.1

SPAIN

JAPAN*

Tobacco business

The tobacco business, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland since 2022, manufactures and offers tobacco products all over the world.

Its key markets include Italy, Japan, Romania, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the Philippines, the U.K, and Turkey, with leading brands in combustibles, such as Winston, Camel, MEVIUS and LD, as well as in RRP (Reduced-Risk Products),* such as Ploom and Logic.

* RRP (Reduced-Risk Products): Products with the potential to reduce the risks associated with smoking

Pharmaceutical business

%

%

TAIWAN

%

28.5

TURKEY

THE PHILIPPINES

%

48.9

%

%

27.8

37.1

* Market size data for Japan and Russia reflects total tobacco figures of combustibles and RRP

The pharmaceutical business focuses on the R&D, manufacturing, and sale of prescription drugs, concentrating on three specific therapeutic areas: Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM); immunology; and neuroscience.

Its products include CORECTIM® Ointment 0.25% and CORECTIM® Ointment 0.5%, Riona® Tablets 250mg and ENAROY® Tablets 2 mg • 4 mg, among others.

Processed food business

The processed food business is present in the frozen and ambient food business, mainly for frozen noodles, frozen okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancakes), and packaged cooked rice, and the seasonings business, focusing on seasonings including yeast extracts.

Major products include Reito-Sanuki-Udon (frozen noodles), Gottsu-umai okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancakes), and HIMAX (yeast extract seasoning) in particular.

Factories (As of December 31, 2022)

Tobacco business

38 factories

(Japan: 5, other countries: 33)

Processed food business

23 factories

(Japan: 15, other countries: 8)

Note: There are no factories in the pharmaceutical business

  • Tobacco factories Europe: 11 Middle East/Africa: 8 Asia: 9
    North America: 1
    Central and South America: 1
  • Other tobacco-related factories Europe: 2
    Middle East/Africa: 2
    Asia: 3
    North America: 1
  • Processed food factories

Asia: 22

North America: 1

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