The internal structure for timely disclosure of the Company’s information

At the Company and each subsidiary in its group, the responsible person for information handling and the department responsible for information disclosure keep control over and manage important decisions, emerging facts and information on financial results. This shall be done after they have been viewed by the representative director, each responsible director or each responsible person. They shall then make decisions on whether such information falls under matters to be disclosed while reflecting on the timely disclosure rules or IR practices, and disclose them, depending on such decision, in a timely manner. Namely, this shall be done after obtaining approval of a board of directors for the decisions and information on financial results, and after identifying the emerging facts. Information disclosed shall be made available on the Company’s website as IR information as soon as possible after the timely disclosure.