Our basic policy on IR activities is to make timely, fair, and accurate disclosures of information to all stakeholders including participants in the capital markets (including shareholders, investors, analysts, etc.) on the Group’s business results, management policies, business strategy, important business metrics, and information relevant to assessing corporate value or investment decision-making.
In line with this, we aim to provide full opportunities for communication with capital markets participants, answering questions for both domestic and foreign institutional investors and analysts in addition to providing briefings on financial results, and we also utilize our IR site and other resources to actively publish important information used to make investment decisions.

In order to enrich our discussions with both foreign and domestic shareholders and institutional investors, we actively engage in one-on-one meetings to mutually exchange information.
We also participate in conferences held by securities firms and seek to promote dialogue through individual visits.We maximize the opportunities for discussions and aim to vigorously pursue dialogue.
Our Planning and IR Section collect the opinions and requests provided by shareholders and investors in these discussions, as well as analyst reports when they are occasionally published, and feed this information back to upper management as appropriate. We also issue regular reports on our discussions at Board of Directors and Management Committee meetings, utilizing this information in discussions aimed at improving corporate value.

Based on the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and other regulations, as well as the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Rules on Timely Disclosure of Corporate Information by Issuers of Listed Securities, our basic approach is to make timely and appropriate disclosures of information, including important information that may impact investment decisions.

Based on our corporate principles of “Develop Talents, Build Business, Contribute to Society,” our company promotes management in our lines of business that lives up to the trust and expectations of our shareholders, investors, business partners, employees, and various other stakeholders.To achieve this, we enhance corporate governance and thoroughly enforce compliance while continuously providing prompt, fair, and proper disclosures, thereby striving to ensure sound, efficient, and transparent management to improve corporate value and contribute to the further development of society.

In order to prevent leaks of information on financial results and maintain fairness in information disclosures, we set a quiet period that extends from the last day of each quarter to the day that financial results are published. Our internal company rules for this period are that there will be no questions answered or comments made about financial results or business results. However, timely and appropriate disclosure will still be made in this period if a qualifying event occurs.