LRQA Independent Assurance Statement
Relating to HEIWA REAL ESTATE’s Environmental and Social Data 2020

This Assurance Statement has been prepared for Heiwa Real Estate Co., Ltd. in accordance with our contract.

Terms of Engagement
LRQA was commissioned by Heiwa Real Estate Co., Ltd. (“the Company”) to provide independent assurance on its
environmental and social data within its Integrated Report, Sustainability Report, and the Corporate Website (“thereport”) for the fiscal year 2020, that is, from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, against the assurance criteria below to alimited level of assurance and the materiality of the professional judgement of the verifier using ISAE 3000 (Revised)
and ISO 14064-3:2019 for greenhouse gas data.
Our assurance engagement covered the Company’s operations and activities in its consolidated subsidiaries’
operations and activities in Japan and specifically the following requirements :• Verifying conformance with the Company’s reporting methodologies• Evaluating the accuracy and reliability of data for the selected indicators listed below 1 :Environmental 2 3 4 5• Energy consumption (Total [kWh]・Floor-area intensity [kWh /m2]) 6 7• Scope 1 GHG emissions (Total [tonnes CO2e]・Floor-area intensity [tCO2e/m2]) 6• Scope 2 GHG emissions [Market-based and Location-based](Total [tonnes CO2e]・Floor-area intensity [tCO2e/m2]) 6• Scope 3 GHG emissions (Category 1 8, 2 8, 3 6, 5 6, 6, 7 8, 11 8, 12 8, 13 8 9)10 (tCO2e)• GHG emissions (Scope 1 + Scope 2 + Scope 3 (Category13 9) )(Total [tonnes CO2e]・Floor-area intensity [tCO2e/m2])• Water consumption volume (Total [m3])・Floor-area intensity[m3/m2]) 11• Waste disposal volume; Recycled material volume (Total [tonnes]・Floor-area intensity [tonnes/m2])
Social 8• Rate of paid day-off for employees (%)• Rate of cancer screening test for employees (%)• Rate of physical check-up for employees (%)• Number of occupational accidents (Fatal accident)
Our assurance engagement excluded the other data and information of the Company’s suppliers, contractors andany third-parties mentioned in the report.
1

Limited assurance was performed on the environmental and social data disclosed, which are marked with ✓ on the integrated report,
Sustainability Report, and the Corporate Website.
2GHG quantification is subject to inherent uncertainty.
3
Excluding properties shared with under 25%.
4
Excluding some data of wastes, recycled materials, gas and water managed under tenants’ direct contracts, not available thereof.
5In addition, when buildings were purchased in the middle of the year, data values are also calculated on a pro rate basis, which are used as KPI.
(Waste disposal volume and recycled material volume are aggregated on an annual basis only.)
6
The company and the Tokyo Shoken Kaikan Co.,Ltd. are covered.
7
Energy consumption for Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 (Category 13) respectively shows their values in specific scope.
8
The company is only covered.
9
Scope 3 GHG emissions are calculated on both of market-based and location-based for Category 13.
10
In Category 2 of Scope 3, the data of pre-owned properties are aggregated as new ones. In Scope 1, Category 11, and 12 of Scope 3, the data ofinventory assets are included.
11
Only recycled water consumption from Tenjin Heiwa building can be available and aggregated.

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LRQA’s responsibility is only to the Company. LRQA disclaims any liability or responsibility to others as explained inthe end footnote. The Company’s responsibility is for collecting, aggregating, analysing and presenting all the dataand information within the report and for maintaining effective internal controls over the systems from which thereport is derived. Ultimately, the report has been approved by, and remains the responsibility of the Company.

LRQA’s Opinion
Based on LRQA’s approach nothing has come to our attention that would cause us to believe that the Company has
not, in all material respects:• Met the requirements of the criteria listed above• Disclosed accurate and reliable environmental and social data
The opinion expressed is formed on the basis of a limited level of assurance12 and at the materiality of the professional
judgement of the verifier.

LRQA’s Approach

LRQA’s assurance engagements are carried out in accordance with ISAE 3000 (Revised) and ISO 14064-3:2019. The
following tasks were undertaken as part of the evidence gathering process for this assurance engagement:• Auditing the Company’s data management systems to confirm that there were no significant errors, omissions
or misstatements in the report. We did this by reviewing the effectiveness of data handling procedures,instructions and systems, including those for internal verification;• Interviewing with those key people responsible for compiling the data and drafting the report.
• Sampling datasets and traced activity data back to aggregated levels;• Verifying the historical data and records for the fiscal year 2020;• Visiting Tokyo Shoken Building and Uchisaiwaicho Heiwa Building to confirm the data collection processes,
record management practices, and to physically check their facilities; and• By implementing the Company’s “No Visitor” Policy due to the global infection spread of COVID-19, conductingsome parts as remote verifications at the headquarters via emails and Microsoft Teams.

Observations
Further observations and findings, made during the assurance engagement, the followings are recommended:• Manuals for data collection and aggregation should be established aiming at elaborate format. Thereby,
more enhanced accuracy and completeness of data collection and aggregation can be expected.
• Consecutive efforts for more secure data collection from the company itself and its consolidated subsidiaries
as well as management/checking system should be established.

LRQA’s Standards, Competence and Independence
LRQA implements and maintains a comprehensive management system that meets accreditation requirements for
ISO 14065 Greenhouse gases – Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification bodies for use inaccreditation or other forms of recognition and ISO/IEC 17021-1 Conformity assessment – Requirements for bodies
providing audit and certification of management systems – Part1: Requirements that are at least as demanding as therequirements of the International Standard on Quality Control 1 and comply with the Code of Ethics for Professional
Accountants issued by the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants.
LRQA ensures the selection of appropriately qualified individuals based on their qualifications, training andexperience. The outcome of all verification and certification assessments is then internally reviewed by senior
management to ensure that the approach applied is rigorous and transparent.
12The extent of evidence-gathering for a limited assurance engagement is less than for a reasonable assurance engagement. Limited assurance
engagements focus on aggregated data rather than physically checking source data at sites. Consequently, the level of assurance obtained in alimited assurance engagement is lower than the assurance that would have been obtained had a reasonable assurance engagement been
performed.

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SignedDated: 9 March 2022

Yoshinori Shibata
LRQA Lead Verifier
On behalf of LRQA Limited
10th Floor, Queen's Tower A, 2-3-1 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, JAPANLRQA reference: YKA00001041

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