August 5, 2009
To whom it may concern

5-2-1 Daizawa, Setagaya Ward, TokyoTOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
(Tokyo Stock Exchange Securities Code: 8129)
Norio Hamada, President and CEO
Contact: Mamoru Ishii, Corporate Officer andGeneral Manager of Corporate Planning Office

Notice of a Change in the Trade Name of Subsidiaries
engaged in the Dispensing Pharmacy Business
TOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD. is pleased to announce that it has decided to change the company name of Fuji
Family Pharmacy Co., Ltd., the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary engaged in the dispensing pharmacy
business and the sub-subsidiary Ethos Inc., a 100% subsidiary of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary
PharmaCluster Co., Ltd., both in the Toho Group.
1. Fuji Family Pharmacy Co., Ltd.
(1) New Company Name

PharmaSquare Co., Ltd.
（Origin） Combination of Pharmacy and Square(2) Reason for ChangeWith the filing for the civil rehabilitation proceedings by Fuji Biomedix Co. Ltd., Fuji Family Pharmacy Co., Ltd. became awholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Due to the Company’s reorganization of the dispensing pharmacy operations onOctober 1 this year, Fuji Family Pharmacy will change its company name to reinforce the sense of belonging to the Toho
Group.
(3) Date for change
September 1, 2009(4) Out line of the subsidiary company
Company namePrincipal place of business
Representative
Business contentsCapitalFuji Family Pharmacy Co., Ltd.
4-4-2 Honcho, Nihonbashi, Chuoh Ward, Tokyo
Katsuhiro Yoshimoto / PresidentManagement of dispensing company
50 million yen(5) OtherIn addition, there is no change in the plan to split the Company’s subsidiary management business over Fuji Family
Pharmacy to PharmaCluster on October 1, 2009, which was published on July 16, 2009.

2. ETHOS Inc.
(1) New Company Name

Tomonity Inc.
（Origin）
The Toho Group’s management philosophy, “Kyosomirai” in Japanese, means to create tomorrow together (“tomoni” inJapanese). Tomonity is a word coined by combining the “tomo” in “tomoni” and in “tomorrow”, and “community”.
(2) Reason for the Change
Ethos Inc. has up to now been the core subsidiary of the Company’s dispensing pharmacy business. However, with theCompany’s shift to a holding company system on April 1 this year and the reorganization of dispensing pharmacy
operations scheduled for October 1, 2009, the status of Ethos in the Group will change significantly. To symbolize this,Ethos is to change its trade name.
(3) Date for change
October 1, 2009(4) Outline of the sub-subsidiary company
Company namePrincipal place of business
Representative
Business contents

ETHOS Inc.
4-4-2 Honcho, Nihonbashi, Chuoh Ward, Tokyo
Kazunari Sue / PresidentManagement of dispensing pharmacy, Wholesale of pharmaceutical, home carebusiness, small lot wholesaling ofpharmaceuticals
Capital50 million yen* Ethos Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company’s 100% subsidiary PharmaCluster Co. Ltd., in other words, asub-subsidiary of the Company.

(5) OtherIn addition, there is no change in the plan to execute an absorption-type corporate split of the subsidiary management
operations over Chuo Medical (a 100% subsidiary of Ethos) to PharmaCluster Co., Ltd. on October 1, 2009, and the plan toconsolidate Ethos and Toyaku Co. Ltd. (a 100% subsidiary of Ethos) on the same date. The plan was published on July 16,
2009.