Note: This document has been translated from a part of the Japanese original for reference purposes
only. In the event of any discrepancy between this translated document and the Japanese original, theoriginal shall prevail.
(Stock Exchange Code 4246)
June 7, 2017
To Shareholders with Voting Rights:
Nariaki Uchida
Representative Director and President
DaikyoNishikawa Corporation
1-4-31 Kitashinchi, Saka-cho,
Aki-gun, Hiroshima, JapanNOTICE OF
THE 10TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
We would like to express our appreciation for your continued support and patronage.
You are cordially invited to attend the 10th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of DaikyoNishikawa
Corporation (the “Company”). The meeting will be held for the purposes as described below.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, you can exercise your voting rights in writing by submitting
the Voting Card. If exercising your voting rights in writing, please review the attached Reference
Documents for Shareholders Meeting, indicate your vote for or against each proposal on the enclosed
Voting Card and return it so that it is received by 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, Japan
Standard Time.
1. Date and Time:Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., Japan Standard Time (Reception starts at
9:00 a.m.)

2. Place:

Banquet room (Yukyu no Ma) 4th floor of Hotel Granvia Hiroshima,
1-5 Matsubara-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan

3. Purpose of Meeting:
Matters to be reported: 1. The Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements and Results of
Audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements by the Financial Auditor
and the Board of Auditors for the 10th Fiscal Year (April 1, 2016 - March 31,
2017)
2. Non-consolidated Financial Statements for the 10th Fiscal Year (April 1,2016 - March 31, 2017)
Proposals to be resolved:
Appropriation of Surplus Funds
Proposal 1:
Proposal 2:
Election of Nine (9) Directors
Proposal 3:
Election of One (1) Auditor

 For those attending, please submit the enclosed Voting Card at the reception desk. You are also kindly
requested to bring this Notice as meeting materials when you attend.
 If any revisions are made to the Reference Documents for Shareholders Meeting, the Business Report, theNon-consolidated Financial Statements and the Consolidated Financial Statements, the revised versions
will be posted on the Company’s website (http://www.daikyonishikawa.co.jp/).

― 1 ―REFERENCE DOCUMENTS FOR
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Proposals and Reference Items
Proposal 1: Appropriation of Surplus Funds
The Company considers the return of profits to shareholders to be one of the most important
subjects in corporate management and makes it a basic policy to aim for stable and continuous
dividends by taking into comprehensive consideration its business performance, payout ratio, etc.
Based on the above policy, the Company proposes to pay year-end dividends as follows
considering its business performance during the current fiscal year:
Items related to year-end dividend
1. Type of dividend property:
Money
2. Allocation of dividend property to shareholders and the total amount thereof:
16 yen per share of the Company’s common stock (including ordinary dividend of 14 yen
and commemorative dividend of 2 yen)
Total amount of dividend: 1,133,535,664 yen
3. Effective date of distribution of surplus funds:
June 23, 2017

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Proposal 2: Election of Nine (9) Directors
The terms of office of all nine (9) Directors will expire at the conclusion of this Annual General
Meeting of Shareholders. Accordingly, the Company proposes to elect nine (9) Directors.
The candidates for Director are as follows:

Candidate
No.

Name(Date of birth)

Nariaki Uchida(Aug. 27, 1957)
1

2

Career summary, positions, areas of responsibilities
and significant concurrent positions
Apr. 1980 Joined Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. (currently, Mazda Motor
Corporation)
Mar. 2001 General Manager, Powertrain Production Dept. No. 2,
Hofu Plant of Mazda Motor Corporation
Feb. 2004 Representative Director and Executive Vice Presidentof Auto Alliance International, Inc.
Apr. 2007 Representative Director and Executive Vice Presidentof Toyo Advanced Technologies Co., Ltd. and Deputy
Division Manager, Purchasing Div. of Mazda Motor
Corporation
Apr. 2010 Executive Officer and Plant Manager, Hofu Plant of
Mazda Motor Corporation
Apr. 2015 Executive Vice President of the Company
Jun. 2015 Representative Director and President of theCompany (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommonstock held

None

<Areas of Responsibilities in the Company>
Overall corporate management
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director:
As Representative Director and President, Mr. Nariaki Uchida has steadily promoted and realized theCompany’s management philosophy and strategies, as well as properly supervised the management.
Also, through such activities, he has contributed largely to the Company’s financial results for thecurrent fiscal year. Judging by these activities and achievements that he is an excellent executive interms of knowledge on overall management, personality, insights and abilities, the Company has
nominated him as a candidate for Director.
Apr. 1976 Joined the Hiroshima Bank, Ltd.
Jun. 2002 General Manager, Imabari Branch of the Hiroshima
Bank, Ltd.
Apr. 2005 Executive Officer and General Manager, Banking
Business Planning Division of the Hiroshima Bank,
Ltd.
Apr. 2007 Managing Executive Officer and General Manager,
Fumitaka Yabuue
Hiroshima Nishi Branch of the Hiroshima Bank, Ltd.
12,000(Sep. 16, 1953)
Jun. 2009 Director and Managing Executive Officer of theHiroshima Bank, Ltd.
Jun. 2011 Representative Director and Executive Vice Presidentof the Company (to present)<Areas of Responsibilities in the Company>
Assistant to President and Internal Audit Office
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director:
As Representative Director and Executive Vice President, Mr. Fumitaka Yabuue has properly assisted
the Representative Director and President to steadily promote and realize the Company’s management
philosophy and strategies. Also, through such activities, he has contributed largely to the Company’s
financial results for the current fiscal year. Judging by these activities and achievements that he is an
excellent executive in terms of knowledge on overall management, personality, insights and abilities, theCompany has nominated him as a candidate for Director.

― 3 ―Candidate
No.

Name
(Date of birth)

Kenji Takeoka(Nov. 25, 1956)

3

Career summary, positions, areas of responsibilities
and significant concurrent positions
Jun. 1983 Joined Daikyo Co., Ltd. (currently, DaikyoNishikawa
Corporation)
Apr. 2007 General Manager, Design Dept. No. 2, Development
Div. of the Company
Apr. 2008 Executive Officer and Deputy Division Manager,
Development Div. of the Company
Apr. 2010 Executive Officer and Development Division
Manager of the Company
Oct. 2011 Member of the Board and General Manager of
Changchun Wanlong DaikyoNishikawa Auto Parts
Co., Ltd. and Executive Officer of the Company
Apr. 2012 Member of the Board and General Manager of
Changchun Wanlong DaikyoNishikawa Auto Parts
Co., Ltd. and Managing Executive Officer of theCompany
Jun. 2013 Managing Executive Officer and Purchasing Division
Manager of the Company
Jan. 2014 Managing Executive Officer and Development
Division Manager of the Company
Apr. 2014 Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company
Sep. 2014 Senior Managing Executive Officer and Development
Division Manager of the Company
Jun. 2015 Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer andDevelopment Division Manager of the Company
Apr. 2016 Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of
the Company (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommonstock held

12,000<Areas of Responsibilities in the Company>
Production Div. and Quality Div.
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director:
Having held important posts in the Company’s development division, Mr. Kenji Takeoka is
well-acquainted with design technologies of products. Moreover, through his experience as President of
the Company’s local subsidiary in China, etc., he has abundant experience regarding the Company’s
ideal global business development, as well as detailed knowledge of all aspects of the Company’sbusiness. Through his career, he has contributed largely to the Company’s financial results for thecurrent fiscal year. Judging by these activities and achievements that he is an excellent executive interms of knowledge on overall management, personality, insights and abilities, the Company has
nominated him as a candidate for Director.

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No.

Name
(Date of birth)

Toshio Hiyama(Apr. 27, 1959)

4

Career summary, positions, areas of responsibilities
and significant concurrent positions
Apr. 1980 Joined Daikyo Co., Ltd. (currently, DaikyoNishikawa
Corporation)
Apr. 2007 General Manager, Daiwa Production Dept.,
Production Div. of the Company
Apr. 2009 Executive Officer and Deputy Division Manager,
Production Div. of the Company
Apr. 2011 Director and President of DaikyoNishikawa(Thailand) Co., Ltd. and Executive Officer of theCompany
Apr. 2012 Director and President of DaikyoNishikawa(Thailand) Co., Ltd. and Managing Executive Officerof the Company
Apr. 2014 Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company
Jun. 2015 Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of
the Company (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommonstock held

4,000

<Areas of Responsibilities in the Company>
Development Div., Engineering Div., Research and Development
Div., and Purchasing Div.
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director:
Having held important posts in the Company’s production division, Mr. Toshio Hiyama is
well-acquainted with manufacturing technologies. Moreover, through his experience as President of
the Company’s subsidiary in Thailand, he has abundant experience regarding the Company’s ideal
global business development, as well as detailed knowledge of all aspects of the Company’s business.
Through his career, he has contributed largely to the Company’s financial results for the current fiscal
year. Judging by these activities and achievements that he is an excellent executive in terms ofknowledge on overall management, personality, insights and abilities, the Company has nominatedhim as a candidate for Director.

― 5 ―Candidate
No.

Name
(Date of birth)

Motoharu
Nishikimura(Jan. 30, 1960)

5

Career summary, positions, areas of responsibilities
and significant concurrent positions
Jul. 1984 Joined Daikyo Co., Ltd. (currently, DaikyoNishikawa
Corporation)
Apr. 2007 General Manager, Affiliates Managing Dept. of theCompany
Apr. 2009 Deputy Division Manager, Corporate Planning andManagement Div. of the Company
Apr. 2010 Executive Officer and Deputy Division Manager,
Corporate Planning and Management Div. of theCompany
Jan. 2011 Executive Officer and Deputy Division Manager,
Marketing and Sales Div. of the Company
Aug. 2011 Executive Officer, Deputy Division Manager,
Marketing and Sales Div. and General Manager,
Overseas Marketing and Sales Dept. of the Company
Apr. 2012 Director and President of DaikyoNishikawa
Mexicana, S. A. de C. V., Director and President of
DaikyoNishikawa Mexicana Operaciones, S. A. de C.
V., and Executive Officer and General Manager,
Mexico Preparation Office of the Company
Apr. 2013 Director and President of DaikyoNishikawa
Mexicana, S. A. de C. V., Director and President of
DaikyoNishikawa Mexicana Operaciones, S. A. de C.
V., and Executive Officer of the Company
Apr. 2014 Director and President of DaikyoNishikawa
Mexicana, S. A. de C. V., Director and President of
DaikyoNishikawa Mexicana Operaciones, S. A. de C.
V., and Managing Executive Officer of the Company
Apr. 2016 Director and President of DaikyoNishikawa
Mexicana, S. A. de C. V., Director and President of
DaikyoNishikawa Mexicana Operaciones, S. A. de C.
V., and Senior Managing Executive Officer of theCompany
Jun. 2016 Senior Managing Executive Officer of the Company
Jun. 2016 Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer of
the Company
Apr. 2017 Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer andCorporate Planning and Management Division
Manager of the Company (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommonstock held

4,000

<Areas of Responsibilities in the Company>
Marketing and Sales Div. and Corporate Planning andManagement Div.
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director:
Having held important posts in the Company’s corporate planning and management division, Mr.
Motoharu Nishikimura is well-acquainted with management strategies. Moreover, through his
experience as President of the Company’s subsidiaries in Mexico, he has abundant experience
regarding the Company’s ideal global business development, as well as detailed knowledge of all
aspects of the Company’s business. Through his career, he has contributed largely to the Company’s
financial results for the current fiscal year. Judging by these activities and achievements that he is an
excellent executive in terms of knowledge on overall management, personality, insights and abilities,
the Company has nominated him as a candidate for Director.

― 6 ―Candidate
No.

Name
(Date of birth)*Fukami Waki
(Aug. 4, 1958)

6

Career summary, positions, areas of responsibilities
and significant concurrent positions
Feb. 1988 Joined Daikyo Co., Ltd. (currently, DaikyoNishikawa
Corporation)
Apr. 2007 General Manager, Production Div. of the Company
Apr. 2011 Deputy Division Manager, Production Div. of theCompany
Aug. 2011 Corporate Planning and Management Division
Manager of the Company
Apr. 2012 Executive Officer and Corporate Administration
Division Manager of the Company
Oct. 2012 Executive Officer and Corporate Planning andManagement Division Manager of the Company
Apr. 2014 Managing Executive Officer and Marketing and Sales
Division Manager of the Company
Apr. 2017 Senior Managing Executive Officer and Purchasing
Division Manager of the Company (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommonstock held

6,880

<Areas of Responsibilities in the Company>
Assistant to the Officer in charge of Marketing and Sales Div.,and Assistant to the Officer in charge of Purchasing Div.
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director:
Having held important posts in the Company’s production division, Mr. Fukami Waki iswell-acquainted with manufacturing management. Moreover, through his experience of being thecentral figure in designing corporate planning and marketing strategies as the Division Manager of the
Corporate Planning and Management Division as well as of the Marketing and Sales Division, he hasabundant experience regarding the Company’s ideal global business development, as well as detailed
knowledge of all aspects of the Company’s business. Through his career, he has contributed largely to
the Company’s financial results for the current fiscal year. Judging by these activities andachievements that he is an excellent executive in terms of knowledge on overall management,
personality, insights and abilities, the Company has nominated him as a candidate for Director.

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No.

Name
(Date of birth)

Masahiro Idehara(Feb. 15, 1954)
7

8

Career summary, positions, areas of responsibilities
and significant concurrent positions
Jun. 1998 Joined as Standing Adviser of JICHODO Co., Ltd.
Sep. 1998 Director of JICHODO Co., Ltd.
Sep. 2000 Representative Director and Senior Managing
Director of JICHODO Co., Ltd.
Sep. 2002 Representative Director and President of JICHODO
Co., Ltd.
Jul. 2010 Representative Director of JICHODO Co., Ltd.
Sep. 2010 Representative Director and Vice Chairman of
JICHODO Co., Ltd.
Sep. 2014 Director and Senior Advisor of JICHODO Co., Ltd.
(to present)
Jun. 2015 Outside Director of the Company (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommon stock
held

None

<Significant concurrent positions>
Director and Senior Advisor of JICHODO Co., Ltd.
Representative Director of Genkai Sewing Co., Ltd.
Representative Director of JID Co., Ltd.
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Outside Director:
Based on his abundant experience and extensive insights on corporate management, Mr. Masahiro
Idehara is giving advice and suggestions on business operations from an independent standpoint basedon his objective and professional insights, which contribute to the increase of corporate value. The
Company has judged from his advice and suggestions that he is an excellent individual in terms ofknowledge on overall management, personality, insights and abilities and thus has nominated him as a
candidate.
Apr. 1980 Joined Toyo-Kogyo Co., Ltd. (currently, Mazda
Motor Corporation)
Jun. 2005 Executive Vice President of AutoAlliance(Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Sep. 2008 Deputy Division Manager, Quality Div. of Mazda
Motor Corporation
May 2010 Division Manager, Quality Div. of Mazda Motor
Corporation
Apr. 2011 Executive Officer and Division Manager, Quality
Div. of Mazda Motor Corporation
Jun. 2012 Executive Officer and Plant Manager, Hiroshima
Plant of Mazda Motor Corporation
Masatoshi Maruyama Apr. 2015 Managing Executive Officer, Assistant to the
None
Officer in charge of Global Production and Plant(Sep. 19, 1956)
Manager, Hiroshima Plant of Mazda Motor
Corporation
Jun. 2015 Outside Director of the Company (to present)
Apr. 2016 Managing Executive Officer in charge of Global
Production and Global Business Logistics ofMazda Motor Corporation (to present)<Significant concurrent positions>Managing Executive Officer of Mazda Motor Corporation
Director of Mazda Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
Director of Changan Mazda Automobile Co., Ltd.
Director of AutoAlliance (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Outside Director:
Based on his abundant knowledge and experience as a member of a management team in theautomobile industry, Mr. Masatoshi Maruyama is giving advice and suggestions on business operations
from an independent standpoint based on his objective and professional insights, which contribute to theincrease of corporate value. The Company has judged from his advice and suggestions that he is an
excellent individual in terms of knowledge on overall management, personality, insights and abilities― 8 ―and thus has nominated him as a candidate.
Candidate
No.

Name(Date of birth)*Shigeki Sasaki(Jul. 28, 1959)
9

Career summary, positions, areas of responsibilities
and significant concurrent positions
Apr. 1982 Joined Otafuku Sauce Co., Ltd.
Nov. 1996 Director, and General Manager of the Marketingand Sales Division, Osaka Branch of Otafuku
Sauce Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2002 Senior Managing Director, and Engineering and
Production Division Manager of Otafuku Sauce
Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2003 Senior Managing Director, and Marketing andSales Division Manager of Otafuku Sauce Co.,
Ltd., and Representative Director and President ofOtafuku Vinegar Brewery Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2005 Representative Director and President of Otafuku
Sauce Co., Ltd., and Representative Director andChairman of Union Sauce Co., Ltd.
Oct. 2015 Representative Director and President of Otafuku
Holdings Co., Ltd. (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommonstock held

None

<Significant concurrent positions>Representative Director and President of Otafuku Holdings
Co., Ltd.
Chairman of the Board of Otafuku Foods (Qing Dao) Co.,Ltd
Outside Director of Hiroshima Airport Building Co., Ltd.
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Outside Director:
Based on his abundant knowledge and experience as a member of a management team in the foodindustry, Mr. Shigeki Sasaki is expected to give neutral and objective advice and suggestions on
business operations from a fresh perspective and an independent standpoint. The Company has judged
from the activities in his career that he is an excellent individual in terms of knowledge on overallmanagement, personality, insights and abilities and thus has nominated him as a candidate.

(Notes) 1. An asterisk (*) indicates a newly elected candidate for Director.
2. Mr. Masahiro Idehara, Mr. Masatoshi Maruyama and Mr. Shigeki Sasaki are candidates for
Outside Director as prescribed in Article 2, Paragraph 3, Item 7 of the Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Companies Act.
3. Mr. Masatoshi Maruyama is a Managing Executive Officer of Mazda Motor Corporation, oneof the Company’s major customers, which falls under the specified related business operatorof the Company. There are no special interests between the other candidates and the Company.
4. The Company has designated Outside Director Mr. Masahiro Idehara as an independent
director in accordance with the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s regulations and registered him as
such with the Exchange. The Company will register Mr. Masahiro Idehara and Mr. Shigeki
Sasaki as independent directors with the Exchange if this proposal is approved as proposed.
5. There is no special relationship to be disclosed between the Company and any of JICHODO
Co., Ltd., Genkai Sewing Co., Ltd., JID Co., Ltd., Mazda Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Changan
Mazda Automobile Co., Ltd., AutoAlliance (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Otafuku Holdings Co., Ltd.,
Otafuku Foods (Qing Dao) Co., Ltd, and Hiroshima Airport Building Co., Ltd.
6. The Company has entered into agreements with Mr. Masahiro Idehara and Mr. Masatoshi
Maruyama pursuant to Article 427, Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act to limit the liability fordamages stipulated in Article 423, Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act to the minimum liability
amounts provided for by laws and regulations. If their election is approved as proposed, theCompany will continue the same liability limitation agreements with them. In addition, if Mr.
Shigeki Sasaki is elected, the Company intends to enter into the same liability limitationagreement with him.
7. Mr. Masahiro Idehara shall have served as the Company’s Outside Director for two (2) years
at the conclusion of this Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.
8. Mr. Masatoshi Maruyama shall have served as the Company’s Outside Director for two (2)years at the conclusion of this Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

― 9 ―Proposal 3: Election of One (1) Auditor
The term of office of Auditor Mr. Kazuyuki Yasumura will expire at the conclusion of thisAnnual General Meeting of Shareholders. Accordingly, the Company proposes to elect one (1)Auditor. This proposal is submitted with the consent of the Board of Auditors.
The candidate for Auditor is as follows:

Name(Date of birth)

Kazuyuki Yasumura(Sep. 29, 1949)

Career summary, positions
and significant concurrent positions
Apr. 1979 Joined Tsunoda Legal Office
Apr. 1986 Registered as a lawyer at the HIROSHIMA Bar Association
Apr. 1998 Vice President of the HIROSHIMA Bar Association
Jun. 2007 Founded and became Head of Yasumura Legal Office (topresent)
Jun. 2012 Outside Auditor of the Company (to present)

Number ofshares of theCompany’scommon stock
held

None

<Significant concurrent positions>
Head of Yasumura Legal Office
Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Outside Auditor:
Based on his expert insights and abundant experience as a lawyer, Mr. Kazuyuki Yasumura is giving advice andsuggestions regarding the objectivity, neutrality and appropriateness of management from an independent standpoint
based on his objective and professional insights. The Company has judged from his advice and suggestions that he iscapable of conducting audits from broad and professional perspectives and thus has nominated him as a candidate.

(Notes) 1. Mr. Kazuyuki Yasumura is a candidate for Outside Auditor as prescribed in Article 2,
Paragraph 3, Item 8 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Companies Act.
2. There are no special interests between Mr. Kazuyuki Yasumura and the Company.
3. There is no special relationship to be disclosed between the Company and Yasumura Legal
Office.

4. The Company has designated Outside Auditor Mr. Kazuyuki Yasumura as an independent
auditor in accordance with the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s regulations and registered him as suchwith the Exchange. The Company will continue the registration of him with the Exchange if
this proposal is approved as proposed.
5. The Company has entered into an agreement with Mr. Kazuyuki Yasumura pursuant to Article
427, Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act to limit the liability for damages stipulated in Article
423, Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act to the minimum liability amounts provided for by laws
and regulations. If his election is approved as proposed, the Company will continue the same
liability limitation agreement with him.
6. Mr. Kazuyuki Yasumura shall have served as the Company’s Outside Auditor for five (5) years
at the conclusion of this Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

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