Notification of Receipt of Shareholder Proposal

The Company has received written communication from Monex Activist Mother Fund, whose investment trust management company is Monex Asset Management, Inc. and whose trustee is The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd., to the effect that it intends to submit a shareholder proposal in relation to the election of directors at the 130th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held at the end of June 2024. The Company will give serious consideration to the content of this shareholder proposal, and disclose the opinion of the Board of Directors as soon as it has been formed.