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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

  1. Type of dividend assets Cash
  2. 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

  1. 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.
    1. To stipulate that information that is the content of Reference Documents for the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, etc., shall be provided electronically.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. To establish supplementary provisions concerning the effective date, etc., in line with the new establishments and deletions above.
  2. 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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