Stockholder Information

For transfers and other matters concerning shares, please contact

  1. Contact for request for payment of unpaid dividends.
    Please place requests, to the shareholder registrar of the Company, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Limited, Stock Transfer Agency Department.
  2. Contact for filing address changes, placing requests for buy-back or further purchase of less-than-a-full-unit shares or designating the method for receiving dividends.
    1. Shareholders who deposited physical share certificates with the Japan Securities Depository Center, Inc. (the JASDEC):
      Securities companies with which shareholders maintain accounts.
    2. At the cut-off date, Shareholders who have not deposited physical share certificates with the Japan Securities Depository Center, Inc. (the JASDEC):
      The following Account Management Institution in which the Special Account for the Company is opened.

For the sale of shares managed under the Special Account, it is necessary to open your transaction account at the securities company and transfer the shares from the Special Account to the transaction account. Please contact the following Account Management Institution for any inquiries.


Transfer agent and Account Management Institution:
(Special Account Management Institution)
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited
4-1 Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Inquiries: Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited Stock Transfer Agency Department
168-0063
8-4 Izumi 2-chome, Suginami-ku, Tokyo
Agents: Any branch office in Japan of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited

Additional Method of Receiving Dividends after the Cut-off Dat

In addition to the conventional, issue by issue method of designating a bank account to which dividends shall be remitted, shareholders after the Cut-off Date shall be able to instruct a securities company with only a single notice to remit dividends from all the issues that the shareholder owns, into a single pre-designated bank account or into an account maintained at the securities company. These additional methods shall be of help for shareholders to receive dividends without trouble. For details, please refer to securities companies.