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Please note that the following is an unofficial English translation of Japanese Notice of Convocation of the 157th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Kyosan provides this translation for your reference purposes only and without any warranty as to its accuracy or otherwise. In the event of any discrepancy between this translation and the Japanese original, the latter shall prevail.
(Code No. 6742)
June 3, 2022
To Our Shareholders:
Ryoji Kunisawa
Representative Director, President
Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
2-29-1Heian-cho,Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama
Notice of Convocation of the 157th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
Notice is hereby given that the 157th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ("Kyosan" or the "Company") will be held as described below.
In lieu of attending the meeting in person, you may otherwise exercise your voting rights in writing or via the Internet. Please read the attached Reference Documents for the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders provided below, and exercise your voting rights by following the instructions on pages 2 to 3 of the Japanese version of this document by 5:00 p.m. Thursday, June 23, 2022.
1. Date and Time:10:00 a.m. Friday, June 24, 2022
2. Place: | Kyosan Conference Room |
2-29-1Heian-cho,Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama |
3. Purposes of the Meeting:
Matters to be Reported: 1. Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements for the 157th Term
(from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022) and Reports of Audit of the | |
Consolidated Financial Statements by the Accounting Auditors and | |
Audit & Supervisory Board | |
2. Report on the Financial Statements for the 157th Term (from April 1, | |
Matters to be Resolved: | 2021 to March 31, 2022) |
Appropriation of Surplus | |
Proposal No. 1: | |
Proposal No. 2: | Partial Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation |
Proposal No. 3: | Election of Eight (8) Directors |
Proposal No. 4: | Election of One (1) Substitute Audit & Supervisory Board |
Member | |
Proposal No. 5: | Continuation of Countermeasures to Large-Scale Purchases of |
Kyosan Shares (Defensive Measures against Takeovers) |
- If you are attending the meeting, please submit the enclosed Voting Rights Exercise Form at the reception desk. To save resource, please bring this "Notice of Convocation" with you.
- Among the documents to be appended to this Notice of Convocation, "Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements" and "Notes to Non-consolidated Financial Statements" are published on our website (https://www.kyosan.co.jp/english/) based on stipulations of the law and Article 16 of our Articles of Incorporation, so they are not recorded in this Notice of Convocation. In addition, the documents published on the above website have also been audited by the Audit & Supervisory Board Members and Accounting Auditors.
- Any amendments to the Reference Documents for the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements and Financial Statements will be posted on Kyosan's website (https://www.kyosan.co.jp/english/).
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Proposals and Reference Information
Proposal No. 1: Appropriation of Surplus
Dividends are proposed with the intent of providing stable distribution of profits according to medium to long term profit standards that comprehensively consider factors such as consolidated business performance for the current fiscal year and research and development required for the future and capital investments.
Comprehensively taking into consideration recovery from the damage from fire and the future prospects of consolidated business performance for the current fiscal year based on the above policy, the Company proposes to pay a year-end dividend of 13 yen per share as disclosed in the "Notice of Dividend Projections for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2022" on March 25, 2022.
Additionally, this will result in an annual dividend of 18 yen per share when combined with the interim dividend of 5 yen that has already been paid.
Information on the year-end dividend
- Type of dividend assets Cash
- Appropriation of dividend assets to shareholders and amount of appropriation
13 yen per share of Kyosan's common stock | total amount 815,676,420 yen |
(3) Surplus dividend effective date | |
June 27, 2022 |
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Proposal No. 2: Partial Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation
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Reasons for the Amendments
To amend the Company's Articles of Incorporation as follows in order to respond to the system for electronic provision of materials for general meetings of shareholders to be enforced on September 1, 2022 in response to the partial amendment of the Companies Act in 2019. - To stipulate that information that is the content of Reference Documents for the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, etc., shall be provided electronically.
- To establish stipulations to limits on the scope of matters to be recorded in physical documents that are provided to shareholders who request provision of physical documents.
- To delete the stipulations concerning Internet disclosure and deemed provision of Reference Documents for the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (Article 16 of the current Articles of Incorporation), as these stipulations will no longer be necessary.
- To establish supplementary provisions concerning the effective date, etc., in line with the new establishments and deletions above.
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Details of the Amendments
The details of the amendments are as follows.
(Underlined parts are to be amended) | |||||
Current Articles of Incorporation | Proposed Amendments | ||||
Article 16 (Deemed Provision of Reference | (Deleted) | ||||
Documents and other document for | |||||
the Ordinary General Meeting of | |||||
Shareholders Through Disclosure | |||||
on the Internet) | |||||
If the Company discloses information | |||||
relating to matters to be stated or indicated | |||||
in the Reference Documents, Business | |||||
Report, Non-consolidated Financial | |||||
Statements and Consolidated Financial | |||||
Statements in connection with the | |||||
convening of the Ordinary General Meeting | |||||
of Shareholders through the Internet in | |||||
accordance with the Ordinance of the | |||||
Ministry of Justice, the Company may deem | |||||
that it has provided the same to | |||||
shareholders. | |||||
(Newly established) | Article 16 (Measures for electronic provision, | ||||
etc.) | |||||
In the convening of the Ordinary General | |||||
Meeting of Shareholders, the Company | |||||
shall provide electronically information that | |||||
is the content of Reference Documents for | |||||
the Ordinary General Meeting of | |||||
Shareholders, etc. | |||||
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Current Articles of Incorporation | Proposed Amendments |
2. Of the matters to which electronic | |
provision measures apply, the Company | |
may choose not to record all or part of | |
matters stipulated in the Ordinance of the | |
Ministry of Justice in the physical | |
documents provided to shareholders who | |
made requests for provision of physical | |
documents by the record date for voting | |
rights. | |
(Newly established) | (Supplementary provisions) |
1. The amendments to Article 16 of the | |
Articles of Incorporation shall take effect | |
from the date of enforcement of the revised | |
stipulations stipulated in the proviso of | |
Article 1 of the supplementary provisions of | |
the Act Partially Amending the Companies | |
Act (Act No. 70 of 2019; the "Enforcement | |
Date"). | |
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the | |
previous paragraph, Article 16 (Deemed | |
Provision of Reference Documents and | |
other document for the Ordinary General | |
Meeting of Shareholders Through | |
Disclosure on the Internet) of the Articles of | |
Incorporation shall remain valid for general | |
meetings of shareholders held on a day that | |
is within six months of the Enforcement | |
Date. | |
3. These supplementary provisions shall be | |
deleted on the day after which six months | |
have elapsed since the Enforcement Date or | |
the day after which three months have | |
elapsed since the day of the General | |
Meeting of Shareholders in the previous | |
paragraph, whichever is later. | |
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Proposal No. 3: Election of Eight (8) Directors
The terms of office of all Directors will expire at the conclusion of this Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders. Accordingly, the Company proposes to elect eight (8) Directors as shown below.
Candidates for the Directors (8)
Specialization | ||||||||||||
Nomination | ||||||||||||
Corporate management | Global experience | Technology development | Financial accounting | Legal | ||||||||
No. | Name | Current Positions and | and | |||||||||
and | ||||||||||||
Assignments in the Company | Remuneration | |||||||||||
Committee | ||||||||||||
Representative Director | ||||||||||||
Ryoji Kunisawa | (Assigned to be in charge of | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
1 | Reappointment | Internal Auditing Office), | ||||||||||
President | ||||||||||||
(In charge of R&D Center) | ||||||||||||
Representative Director, Senior | ||||||||||||
Managing Executive Officer | ||||||||||||
Toru Onodera | (General Manager, Group | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
2 | Reappointment | Management Headquarters; | ||||||||||
General Manager, Corporate | ||||||||||||
Strategy Office; in charge of | ||||||||||||
ERP Project Office) | ||||||||||||
3 | Tsutomu Tokodai | Director, Chairman | ● | ● | ||||||||
Reappointment | ||||||||||||
Director, Managing Executive | ||||||||||||
Kenjiro Kanzawa | Officer | ● | ● | |||||||||
4 | Reappointment | |||||||||||
(In charge of Finance & | ||||||||||||
Accounting Dept.) | ||||||||||||
Director, Executive Officer | ||||||||||||
Ryu Hihara | (Deputy General Manager, | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
5 | Reappointment | Power Electronics Division; in | ||||||||||
charge of Legal Dept. and | ||||||||||||
Intellectual Property Dept.) | ||||||||||||
Director | ||||||||||||
Hiroshi Sumitani | Reappointment | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
6 | Chairman of the Board of | |||||||||||
Outside | ||||||||||||
Directors | ||||||||||||
Independent | ||||||||||||
Reappointment | ||||||||||||
7 | Mihoko Kitamura | Director | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
Outside | ||||||||||||
Independent | ||||||||||||
Director | ||||||||||||
Hiroyuki Sasa | Reappointment | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
8 | Chairman of the Nomination and | |||||||||||
Outside | ||||||||||||
Remuneration Committee | ||||||||||||
Independent | ||||||||||||
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