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May 10, 2022
To whom it may concern:
Company Name: Kyushu Railway Company
Name of Representative: Yoji Furumiya, President and CEOSecurities Code: 9142
Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market and Fukuoka Stock ExchangeInquiries: Public Relations Department
TEL +81-92-474-2541
Notice Regarding Partial Amendments to the Articles of Incorporation
Kyushu Railway Company (the “Company”) hereby announces that its board of directors resolved at a meeting held todaythat a proposal concerning partial amendments to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation shall be made at the 35th Annual
General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on June 23, 2022 as indicated below.
1. Reasons for the proposal of the amendments(1) The revised stipulations stipulated in the proviso of Article 1 of the supplementary provisions of the “Act Partially
Amending the Companies Act” (Act No. 70 of 2019) will be enforced on September 1, 2022, and the Company
proposes the following amendments to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation in preparation for theimplementation of the system for electronic provision of informational materials for general meetings ofshareholders.
(i) Article 16, Paragraph 1 of the proposed amendments stipulates that information that is the content of reference
documents for the general meeting of shareholders, etc., shall be provided electronically.
(ii) Article 16, Paragraph 2 of the proposed amendments establishes the stipulation to limit the scope of mattersto be recorded in physical documents that are provided to shareholders who requested provision of physicaldocuments.
(iii) As stipulations concerning internet disclosure and deemed provision of reference documents for general
meetings of shareholders (Article 16 of the current Articles of Incorporation) will no longer be necessary, theseshall be deleted.
(iv) Supplementary provisions shall be established concerning the effective date, etc., in line with the new
establishments and deletions above.
(2) In order to ensure that Directors who are not executive Directors can fully perform their expected roles, Article 31(Limited liability agreement with outside Directors) of the current Articles of Incorporation shall be amended sothat limited liability agreements can also be entered with Directors who are not executive Directors. Each Auditand Supervisory Committee Member has already given their consent to this proposal.
2. Details of the amendments
Details of the amendments are shown on the attachment.
3. Schedule
Date of the General Meeting of Shareholders to amend the Articles of Incorporation (planned):
June 23, 2022
Effective date of the amendments to the Articles of Incorporation (planned):
June 23, 2022

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Current Articles of Incorporation(Internet disclosure and deemed provision of reference
documents for general meetings of shareholders)
Article 16 In the convocation of general meetings ofshareholders, the Company may deem that it has provided toshareholders information concerning matters that must bedisplayed in the reference documents for general meetings ofshareholders, business report, non-consolidated financialstatements, and consolidated financial statements via internet
disclosure in conformity with definitions provided in theMinistry of Justice Order.

Proposed amendments(Deleted)(Measures for electronic provision, etc.)(Newly established)(Limited liability agreement with outside Directors)

Article 16
1. In the convocation of general meetings of shareholders,the Company shall provide electronically information thatis the content of reference documents for the general
meeting of shareholders, etc.
2. Of the matters to which electronic provision measuresapply, the Company may choose not to record all or partof matters stipulated in the Ministry of Justice Order inthe physical documents provided to shareholders who
made requests for provision of physical documents by therecord date for voting rights.
（Limited liability agreements with Directors who are notexecutive Directors）

Article 31 Pursuant to the provisions of Article 427,
Article 31 Pursuant to the provisions of Article 427,
paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, the Company may enter
paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, the Company may enter
into a limited liability agreement with each outside Director,
into a limited liability agreement with each Director who iswhich limits their liability for damages under Article 423,
not an executive Director, which limits their liability forparagraph (1) of the Companies Act. However, the limit ofdamages under Article 423, paragraph (1) of the Companies
liability of such agreements shall be the amount stipulated by Act. However, the limit of liability of such agreements shalllaws and regulations.
be the minimum liability amount stipulated by laws andregulations.

(Newly established)(Supplementary provisions)
1. The deletion of Article 16 (Internet disclosure and deemed
provision of reference documents for general meetings ofshareholders) of the current Articles of Incorporation andthe establishment of Article 16 (Measures for electronicprovision, etc.) of the proposed amendments shall takeeffect from September 1, 2022, which is the date ofenforcement of the revised stipulations stipulated in theproviso of Article 1 of the supplementary provisions of
the Act Partially Amending the Companies Act (Act No.
70 of 2019) (the “Enforcement Date”).
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the previous paragraph,
Article 16 of the current Articles of Incorporation shallremain valid for general meetings of shareholders held ona day that is within six months of the Enforcement Date.
3. These supplementary provisions shall be deleted on theday after which six months have elapsed since theEnforcement Date or the day after which three months
have elapsed since the day of the general meeting ofshareholders in the previous paragraph, whichever is later.