For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p.1).

The Company’s corporate governance system is as indicated in the diagram.

For details concerning the composition of the Board of Directors and the backgrounds of members of the Board of Directors, please refer to the Notice of Convocation of Fourth Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting (pp. 10 - 19).

For information concerning the number of members of the Board of Directors, the number of independent outside members of the Board of Directors,* and the number of female members of the Board of Directors, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 2).

*Non-executive members of the Board of Directors

For information concerning the diversity of the Board of Directors, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 6).

A skill matrix of members of the Board of Directors is set forth.

For information concerning conflicts of interest and related party transactions by the Board of Directors, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 2).

Appointment and dismissal of members of the Board of Directors and executive remuneration are determined by resolutions adopted by the shareholders at the ordinary General Shareholders Meeting.

For details, please refer to the Notice of Convocation of Fourth Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting (p. 1) and the Articles of Incorporation (p. 6).

Important details regarding the determination of executive remuneration, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (pp. 15 - 17).

With regard to voting rights, the principle of one share, one vote is applied. For details, please refer to the Securities Report for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020 (p. 44).

For information concerning the results of the exercise of voting rights, please refer to the Notice of Convocation of Fourth Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting.

If a shareholder is unable to attend the General Shareholders Meeting, the shareholder may exercise voting rights through a proxy. Voting rights may be exercised at the General Shareholders Meeting by attending the meeting or by mailing a voting rights exercise form to the Company.

We also plan to allow shareholders to exercise their voting rights online for the ordinary General Shareholders Meeting to be held in March 2022.

For information concerning the provision of incentives and remuneration to members of the Board of Directors, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (pp. 14 – 17).

In addition to financial indicators such as sales and profit, we incorporate non-financial indicators including the environment, society, and governance into remuneration systems, creating incentives for the Company’s members of the Board of Directors to enhance corporate value from a social perspective. Specifically, we set quantitative targets for each fiscal year in order to achieve our long-term goals concerning employee satisfaction, the percentage of women on the Board of Directors, CO₂ emissions, the percentage of female managers, and so on, score the degree of achievement for each, and reflect the scores in remuneration.

We appoint independent outside members of the Board of Directors taking into comprehensive consideration character, knowledge, history of appointment to key positions, legal specialization, management skills at other companies, practical experience, performance, networks within economic circles, and other factors. With regard to diversity, although there are no women or foreign nationals on the Board of Directors, we are currently engaged in discussions regarding the appointment of female members of the Board of Directors at the ordinary General Shareholders Meeting scheduled for March 2022. We also plan to work towards achieving 30% women on the Board by the end of March 2025.

Of the nine members of the Board of Directors, two are independent outside members of the Board of Directors and based on the opinions and advice that we received from these independent outside members of the Board of Directors, we plan to enhance the transparency and reliability of the Board of Directors and reinforce management supervisory functions while revitalizing the Board.

We believe that supporting diversity and inclusion leads to enhancement of corporate value and further believe that achieving diversity in decision-making is crucial for this. Women account for 6.9% of the heads of executive departments, but we have set a goal of raising this to 20% by the end of December 2025.

For information on the Board of Directors meetings, please refer to the Securities Report for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020 (pp. 46 – 47).

The Board of Directors met 19 times in 2020. The status of attendance by executives is indicated in the figure.

Name	Position in the Company	Attendance at Board of Directors Meetings
Yuki Kobayashi	President, Representative Member of the Board of Directors	19/19 (100%)
Daisuke Uehara	Member of the Board of Directors	19/19 (100%)
Atsushi Takashima	Member of the Board of Directors	19/19 (100%)
Yoshiaki Tanaka	Member of the Board of Directors Head of HR	16/16 (100%)
Motoyoshi Doi	Executive Officer Head of Corporate Strategy Division	-
Atsuho Ikeda	-	-
Kensaku Mizutani	Member of the Board of Directors	19/19 (100%)
Masami Mishima	Member of the Board of Directors	19/19 (100%)
Tetsuichi Taniguchi	Member of the Board of Directors	16/16 (100%)
Toshio Miyake	Fulltime Audit & Supervisory Board member（Outside Audit & Supervisory Board member）	19/19 (100%)
Kenjiro Maeda	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board member	19/19 (100%)
Dai Kiyohara	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board member	19/19 (100%)

For information concerning the assumptions regarding measures to ensure the effectiveness of the Board of Directors and the Audit & Supervisory Board, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 2).

With the aim of enhancing the Board of Directors overall, the Company conducts surveys of all members of the Board of Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board members and analyzes the results and also interviews all executives to identify areas for improvement and issues, which are then discussed by the Board of Directors. With regard to evaluation of the Board of Directors, the evaluation results indicate that the Board of Directors is functioning appropriately and ensuring the effectiveness of the Board, including fulfilling its roles and responsibilities. In the future, we will continue to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the Board of Directors once each year.

For information on Board of Directors meetings, please refer to the Securities Report for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020 (p. 56).

Our policy for determining the audit fees paid to certified public accountants and so on is to obtain quotations in advance, comprehensively considered the number of audit days, order details, scale of the Company, and other factors, and determine the fees after obtaining consent from the Audit & Supervisory Board.

For information concerning disclosure of the fees paid to the audit firm, please refer to the Securities Report for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2020 (p. 57).

Also, with regard to the number of days from the notice of convocation of the ordinary General Shareholders Meeting to the meeting date, please refer to the Notice of Convocation of Fourth Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting (p. 1).

For information on Nomination and Remuneration Committee meetings and attendance by its members, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 5).

For information on executive remuneration amounts and the methods of setting those amounts, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (pp. 15 – 17).

The Risk and Compliance Committee met 12 times in 2020. Information on the meetings and attendance by committee members is set forth in the figure.

Name	Position within the Company & Area of Responsibility	Attendance at Meetings
Yuki Kobayashi	President, Representative Member of the Board of Directors	12/12 (100%)
Yoshiaki Tanaka	Member of the Board of Directors Head of HR	12/12 (100%)
Motoyoshi Doi	Executive Officer Head of Corporate Strategy Division	12/12 (100%)
Toshio Miyake	Fulltime Audit & Supervisory Board member（Outside Audit & Supervisory Board member）	12/12 (100%)

The Sustainability Committee was established in November 2021 and held its kickoff meeting that month. All members attended.

Among the Company’s management principles are responding promptly to changes in society and customer needs and striving to be a corporate entity needed even more by society.

We see contributing to society and continuously enhancing corporate value as top-priority management issues, and we strive to be a corporate group that is trusted by all stakeholders. To this end, we work to achieve management efficiency and believe that increasing management soundness, transparency, and compliance will lead to long-term increases in corporate value and maintain stakeholder confidence.

We have positioned the creation, implementation, and functioning of fair management systems for increasing the soundness and transparency of management as well as prompt decision-making and appropriate business execution as key management issues and are working to enhance corporate governance.

For further details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report.

We see compliance as a broad concept that encompasses observation of laws and regulations as well as engaging in good faith and proper conduct that incorporates social norms and ethics. We believe that a lack of awareness regarding compliance on the part of an individual employee poses significant risks to the existence of the company. For this reason, we continuously undertake companywide measures by appropriately identifying risks that may have an impact on the Company’s business including compliance violations and take effective countermeasures. For details, please refer to the Internet Disclosure Items Pursuant to Laws and Regulations and the Articles of Incorporation (p. 3).

Raising understanding and awareness by each employee is essential for thorough compliance. The Company conducts compliance training for all employees at the time of hiring. In addition, we conduct periodic e-learning, tests, and other programs to raise employee compliance awareness. We will work to establish compliance knowledge and awareness by conducting periodic compliance education in the future.

The Company established a policy on the prevention of corruption including bribery, insider trading, and misappropriation of company assets within its Code of Conduct and posted the Code in Japanese and English on the company intranet to thoroughly inform all employees. For details, please refer to the Code of Conduct, section 1.3: Prevention of corruption.

In addition, we established and operate an internal whistleblowing system to quickly identify circumstances that are or may be corrupt conduct, prevent compliance violations, and quickly rectify any violations that occur. In cases where consultations or reports are made, information is provided to the Risk Compliance Committee, which takes appropriate action. The internal whistleblowing system protects anonymity and confidentiality, and individuals who make reports are not subject to any retaliation.

We also conduct training for all employees that includes content on preventing corruption. Through this training, we strive to strengthen understanding of the details of internal regulations on anticorruption, including bribery and other forms of corruptions, transactions that may be suspected of corruption, and consultation and reporting methods so that we can prevent corruption from occurring.

The Company rigorously complies with laws and regulations by establishing and appropriately implementing internal rules in accordance with the Code of Conduct and strives to foster high level of awareness of ethics through internal training and education. With regard to tax matters, the Company complies with tax laws and properly pays taxes by performing tax procedures in accordance with internal rules.

The Company complies with the letter and spirit of the tax laws of countries around the world and international rules and properly pays taxes in all countries where it conducts business activities.

The Company provides information to tax authorities in a timely and appropriate manner, works to build trusting relationships through good faith and cooperative responses, and avoids a lack of transparency in tax matters.

The Company utilizes preferential tax treatment programs and so on to the extent that they are aligned with the Company’s business objectives and strives to enhance corporate value by achieving optimal tax burdens. In addition, the Company does not engage in tax planning or use tax havens with the intention of tax avoidance.

The Board of Directors is responsible for oversight of tax risks, and CFO, Member of the Board of Directors has overall responsibility for tax matters within the Group. Under the supervision of the CFO, departments involved in tax-related matters make reports and perform management relating to taxes.

The Company strives to prevent insider trading in order to ensure the fairness and soundness of stock markets and gain the trust of stakeholders. We adopted Insider Trading Management Rules that expressly prohibit securities trading using non-public information obtained in the course of work, require submission of a trading application when trading the Company’s shares, and impose other requirements. We also conduct ongoing education for executives and employees. In July 2020 and June 2021, we conducted e-learning on insider trading rules for all employees.

For information on our approach to the exclusion of anti-social forces, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 22).

As society and business environments change, the risks that companies face are becoming increasingly complex and varied. We believe that properly identifying risks and effects that could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s business activities and responding in an appropriate and timely manner are critical for achieving sustainable growth as a business enterprise.

For information concerning responses when incidents occur, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 20).

When commencing new transactions, the Company investigates the reasons for and details of the transaction, the reliability of the trading partner, estimated cost, and other factors and screens potential new trading partners. The screening plays an important role in the Company’s risk management.

In November 2021, we added new negative ESG screening items to the screening of new trading partners. We check for problems that have become public knowledge from an ESG perspective including the occurrence of soil contamination or water contamination or pollution, the occurrence of occupational accidents, harms to health caused by products, forced repatriation of foreign workers, encouragement or coercion of illegal employment, failure to pay wages or overtime, and collusion with public officials.

If as a result of the screening, any ESG risks are identified, we make a comprehensive determination in combination with other check items and decide whether to conduct business with the new trading partner.

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 20).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 20).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 20).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 20).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 20).

President and CEO, Representative Member of the Board of Directors Yuki Kobayashi and CFO, Member of the Board of Directors Motoyoshi Doi are responsible for the establishment and operation of internal controls relating to financial reporting by the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries. We establish and operate internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with the basic framework for internal controls set forth in the Revisions of Standards for Evaluation and Audit of Internal Controls Regarding Financial Reporting and Standards for Evaluation and Audit of Internal Controls regarding Financial Reporting (Opinion) released by the Business Accounting Council.

Internal controls are intended to achieve their objectives to a reasonable degree by organically linking the basic elements of internal controls and functioning in an integrated manner. Accordingly, internal controls regarding financial reporting may not completely prevent or detect misstatements in financial reports.

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 21).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 21).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 21).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 21).

For details, please refer to the Corporate Governance Report (p. 21).

For information concerning our approach to information security, please refer to the Code of Conduct, section 5: Thorough Information Security.

Much of the information on the possession of the Company's subsidiaries is important information such as the personal information of customers. We believe that protecting this key information from various risks, such as alteration and leaks, is crucial for gaining the trust of stakeholders and developing business.

We conduct information security training for all employees by means of e-learning every quarter. The training informs employees about the importance of information security and heightens crisis awareness regarding the Personal Information Protection Act while supporting acquisition of knowledge necessary for business operations.

Accounts used by employees are managed with a user management system that is linked to personnel information, and use of company systems and access to the company intranet by persons without access rights are restricted.

In addition, security cards are used to manage access at all sites and information management is reinforced by restricting access, installing security cameras, and taking other measures.

The Company is a holding company, and we recognize that information security is a high risk for our subsidiaries. Accordingly, each subsidiary has acquired ISO27001 certification, an international standard for information security management systems (ISMS), and P Mark certification, a third-party certification system for personal information protection systems. In this way, we ensure thorough information management and continuous improvement.