These documents have been translated from the Japanese originals for reference purposes only.
In the event of any discrepancy between these translated documents and the Japanese originals, the originals
shall prevail. The Company assumes no responsibility for this translation or for direct, indirect or any otherforms of damages arising from the translations.

Securities Code: 6806
June 1, 2016
To Shareholders with Voting Rights
Kazunori Ishii
President and Representative Director
Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
5-23, Osaki 5-chome, Shinagawa-ku, TokyoNOTICE OF THE 69TH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
You are cordially invited to attend the 69th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Hirose Electric Co.,
Ltd. (the “Company”). The meeting will be held as described below. If you are unable to attend the meeting,you may exercise your voting rights in writing by submitting the Voting Rights Exercise Form or via theInternet. Please read the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders and exercise yourvoting rights by 5:00 p.m. on June 21, 2016 (Tuesday) in accordance with the guidance below.

1. Date and Time:
2. Venue:

June 22, 2016 (Wednesday), 10:00 a.m.
1-1, Shirokanedai 1-chome, Minato-ku, TokyoHAPPO-EN, 3F CHAT

3. Agenda of the Meeting:
Matters to be reported: 1. Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements for the Company’s
69th Fiscal Year (from April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016) and Audit Reports
for the Consolidated Financial Statements by the Accounting Auditor andthe Audit & Supervisory Board
2. Non-consolidated Financial Statements for the Company’s 69th Fiscal Year(from April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016)
Proposals to be resolved:
Dividends of Surplus
Proposal No. 1
Election of One (1) Director
Proposal No. 2
Election of Two (2) Audit & Supervisory Board Members
Proposal No. 3

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4. Guidance for Exercising Voting Rights:(1) Exercise voting rights in writing
Please indicate your approval or disapproval on the enclosed Voting Rights Exercise Form, and returnthe form to us to arrive no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 21, 2016 (Tuesday).
(2) Exercise voting rights via the Internet
If you exercise your voting rights via the Internet, please exercise them no later than 5:00 p.m. on June21, 2016 (Tuesday).
(3) If you exercise your voting rights twice, once in writing and once via the Internet, your Internet voteshall be deemed to be valid. If you exercise your voting rights more than once via the Internet or exercise
them twice, once using a personal computer and once using a mobile phone, the last exercise shall bedeemed to be valid.
5. Other Matters Related to This Convocation:
Among the documents that have to be provided along with the convocation of this meeting of shareholders,the Notes to the Consolidated and Non-consolidated Financial Statements are posted on the Company’s
website (https://www.hirose.com/jp/) pursuant to the provisions of the relevant laws and regulations andArticle 15 of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, therefore these are not included in this Notice. TheConsolidated and Non-consolidated Financial Statements included in this Notice are part of the Consolidatedand Non-consolidated Financial Statements that the Accounting Auditor audited to prepare the Audit Reports.
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For those attending, please present the enclosed Voting Rights Exercise Form at the reception desk on arrivalat the meeting.
If there are any amendments to the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders, theBusiness Report and/or the Consolidated and Non-consolidated Financial Statements, these amendments will
be posted on the Company’s website (https://www.hirose.com/jp/).

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Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders
Proposals and References
Proposal No. 1: Dividends of Surplus
Regarding year-end dividends, comprehensively taking into account the business results andoperating environment of the Company and based on the policy of stable dividend distribution toshareholders, we propose year-end dividends as follows:(1) Type of dividend property: Cash(2) Matters related to the allocation of dividends and total amount thereof:¥120 per share of the Company’s common shares
Total amount of dividends: ¥4,196,436,840
Because an interim dividend of ¥120 per share was paid, the annual dividend for the fiscal year
ended March 31, 2016 is ¥240 per share.
(3) Effective date of dividends of surplus: June 23, 2016

Proposal No. 2: Election of One (1) Director
The Company proposes the election of additional one (1) Director in order to enhance a corporate
management system.
The term of office of the candidate for Director shall expire at the expiration of the term of office ofother current Directors, pursuant to the provisions of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation.
The candidate is as follows:
NameCareer summary, positions and responsibilities in the Company
Number of(Date of birth)and significant concurrent positions at other organizations
shares owned
April 1982
Joined the Company
April 2013
Deputy General Manager–Production of theCompany
June 2015
Operating Officer of the Company
Yukio Kiriya
November 2015 Acting General Manager–Production of the105(December, 29 1958)
Company
April 2016
Acting General Manager–Production of theCompany; concurrently responsible for Quality
Assurance Department(to present)
Note: No conflict of interest exists between the Company and the above candidate.

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Proposal No. 3: Election of Two (2) Audit & Supervisory Board Members
The term of office of two (2) Audit & Supervisory Board Members, Mr. Terukazu Sugishima and Mr.
Akira Seshimo will expire at the close of this Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, therefore, theCompany proposes the election of two (2) Audit & Supervisory Board Members.
The Audit & Supervisory Board has consented to this proposition.
The candidates are as follows:NameCareer summary, positions and significant concurrent positions at Number ofNo.
(Date of birth)other organizations
shares ownedApril 1972
Joined Kanematsu-Gosho, Ltd.(currentlyKANEMATSU CORPORATION)
October 1974
Joined Price Waterhouse Accounting Office
April 1978
Joined Serizawa Law and Accounting Office
March 1979
Registered as certified public accountant
June 1979
Registered as tax accountant
April 1985
Established Sugishima Certified Public
Accountant Office
Terukazu Sugishima(to present)10(March 12, 1950) June 2007
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member ofStarzen Co., Ltd.
(to present)
June 2008
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of theCompany(to present)
June 2015
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member ofChuetsu Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd(to present)
April 1967
Joined Dai-Tokyo Fire and Marine InsuranceCo., Ltd. (currently Aioi Nissay Dowa
Insurance Co., Ltd.)
June 1994
Director of Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co.,Ltd.
June 1995
Managing Director of Aioi Nissay Dowa
Insurance Co., Ltd.
June 1997
Representative Director and Senior Managing
Director of Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co.,Ltd.
June 1998
Representative Director and President of Aioi
Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd.
Akira Seshimo
April 2001
Representative Director and President of Aioi
02(August 24, 1941)
Insurance Co., Ltd.
April 2004
Representative Director and Chairman of Aioi
Insurance Co., Ltd.
June 2007
Senior Advisor of Aioi Insurance Co., Ltd.
(retired from Director)
June 2007
External Auditor of TOKAI CORPORATION
October 2010
Senior Advisor of Aioi Nissay Dowa InsuranceCo., Ltd.
April 2011
External Auditor of TOKAI Holdings
Corporation
June 2012
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of theCompany(to present)
Notes:
1. No conflict of interest exists between the Company and any of the above candidates. Mr. Terukazu
Sugishima and Mr. Akira Seshimo are Independent Officers who are unlikely to have any conflict ofinterest with general shareholders, that are required to be designated by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
2. Information on the candidates for Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member is as follows.
4(1) Mr. Terukazu Sugishima and Mr. Akira Seshimo are candidates for Outside Audit &Supervisory Board Member.
(2) Reasons for the appointment of Mr. Terukazu Sugishima and Mr. Akira Seshimo for Outside
Audit & Supervisory Board Members and their independency1) We ask that Mr. Terukazu Sugishima be elected as an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board
Member expecting him to utilize his expertise and experience he gained as certified public
accountant in the Company’s audit. Mr. Sugishima’s term of office as Audit & Supervisory
Board Member will be eight years at the closing of this General Meeting of Shareholders.
We ask that Mr. Akira Seshimo be elected as an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board
Member expecting him to utilize his managerial experience at other companies in theCompany’s audit. Mr. Seshimo’s term of office as Audit & Supervisory Board Member will
be four years at the closing of this General Meeting of Shareholders.
2) Mr. Terukazu Sugishima and Mr. Akira Seshimo do not plan to receive a large amount ofmoney or other assets (other than remuneration paid for their services as Audit &Supervisory Board Members of the Company) from the Company or business operators thathave specific relations with the company. Also, they have not received such in the past twoyears.
3) Mr. Terukazu Sugishima and Mr. Akira Seshimo are not spouses or relatives within the third
degree of consanguinity or of similar status of either anyone in a position to execute businessor an officer at either the Company or a business operator that has specific relations with thecompany such as its parent company.
4) Mr. Terukazu Sugishima and Mr. Akira Seshimo were not executives at any corporation fromwhich the Company assumed business rights and obligations through a corporate merger, anabsorption-type corporate split, an incorporation-type corporate split or a business transfer
immediately before such merger, etc., for the past two years.
(3) Reasons why the Company considers Mr. Terukazu Sugishima is capable of performing hisduties as Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Although Mr. Terukazu Sugishima has not been directly involved in company management, theCompany considers he will effectively continue to perform his duties as Outside Audit &Supervisory Board Member, after taking into account his work experience as a certified public
accountant and his achievements as Audit & Supervisory Board Member over eight years.
(4) Liability limitation agreements with Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Members
Pursuant to Article 427, Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act, the Company has entered intoliability limitation agreements with Mr. Terukazu Sugishima and Mr. Akira Seshimo,
candidates for Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, to limit their liabilities fordamages to the effect that if such as stipulated in Article 423, Paragraph 1 of the Act is not
resulting from serious negligence and their duties are conducted in good faith, the limit ofliabilities under such agreements (minimum liability amount) shall be the total of the amountset forth in each item of Article 425, Paragraph 1 of the Act. If their reelection is approved, theCompany intends to continue the limited liability agreements.

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