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, the original shall prevail.

Securities Code: 2815
June 7, 2018
To our shareholders:
Tomoki Tagawa
Representative Director and President
ARIAKE JAPAN Co., Ltd.
3-2-17 Ebisu-Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Notice of the 40th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
You are cordially invited to attend the 40th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of ARIAKE JAPAN Co., Ltd.
(the “Company”). The meeting shall be held as mentioned below.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, you may exercise your voting rights in writing. Please review the attached
Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders, indicate “for” or “against” for each proposal on theenclosed voting form, and return it to us by postal mail so it will be received by us no later than 5:00 p.m. (JST) on
Thursday, June 21, 2018.
1. Date and Time: Friday, June 22, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. (JST)
2. Venue:
No. 2 Kyushu Plant of the Company
1572-21, Kouramen Aza Kourahama, Saza-cho, Kita-Matsuura-gun, Nagasaki
3. Purpose of the Meeting
Matters to be reported:
1. The Business Report and the Consolidated Financial Statements, and auditing results of the Consolidated
Financial Statements by Financial Auditors and Audit and Supervisory Committee for the 40th fiscal year
(From April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018).
2. The Non-Consolidated Financial Statements for the 40th fiscal year (From April 1, 2017 to March 31,2018)
Matters to be resolved:
Proposal No. 1
Appropriation of Surplus
Proposal No. 2
Election of Six Directors (Excluding Directors Who Are Audit and Supervisory
Committee Members)
Proposal No. 3
Payment of Bonuses to Officers---Please submit the enclosed voting form at the reception desk of the venue on the day of the meeting. Please note that unless thecircumstances are exceptional, non-shareholders such as proxies and people accompanying shareholders will not be permitted toattend the General Meeting of Shareholders.
Any changes in the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders and the Business Report, the Non-Consolidated
Financial Statements, or the Consolidated Financial Report will be posted on the Company’s website.
In compliance with laws and regulations, and Article 15 of Articles of Incorporation, the Company has posted the following items
from the attached documents on its website. The said items are not provided with this notice. Please note that the Consolidated
Financial Statements audited by Financial Auditors and Audit and Supervisory Committee and the Non-Consolidated Financial
Statements consist of the items that are enclosed with the Japanese version of this notice as well as the following items posted on
the Company’s website:(i) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements(ii) Notes to Non-Consolidated Financial Statements
Company’s website: http://www.ariakejapan.com-1-Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders
Proposal No. 1Appropriation of Surplus

The Company proposes the appropriation of surplus as follows:
Year-end dividends
The Company has given consideration to matters including the business performance of the fiscal year underreview and future business development, and it proposes to pay year-end dividends for the 40th fiscal year as
follows:(i) Type of dividend property
To be paid in cash.
(ii) Allotment of dividend property and their aggregate amountThe Company proposes to pay a dividend of ¥46 per common share of the Company.
In this event, the total dividends will be ¥1,463,811,402.
(iii) Effective date of dividend of surplus
The effective date of dividends will be June 25, 2018.

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Proposal No. 2

Election of Six Directors (Excluding Directors Who Are Audit and Supervisory CommitteeMembers)

The terms of office of all five Directors (excluding Directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members;
applicable to the rest of this proposal) will expire at the conclusion of this meeting. In that regard, the Company
requests to elect six Directors, increasing the number of Directors by one to enhance the management system.
As for this proposal, the Audit and Supervisory Committee has judged that all the candidates for Directors areeligible.
The candidates for Director are as follows:
CandidateNo.

Name(Date of birth)

Career summary, positions and responsibilities in the Company(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Mar. 1976
June 1991

Reelection
1

Tomoki Tagawa(January 28, 1954)

Joined Ariake Shokuhin Kako Co., Ltd.
Director and General Manager of Production
Department 2 of the Company
July 1993
Director and General Manager of Kyushu Plant
Technological Development Department
June 1999
Managing Director, General Manager ofKyushu Plant, and General Manager of Kyushu
Plant Technological Development Department
May 2002
Senior Managing Director, General Manager ofNo. 2 Kyushu Plant, General Manager ofTechnological Development Department, andGeneral Manager of General Affairs
Department
Mar. 2003
Director of F. P. Natural Ingredients SAS
Jan. 2004
Director of Ariake Europe N. V. (currentposition)
Feb. 2004
Director and President of ARIAKE U. S. A.,
Inc.
June 2005
Executive Vice President of the Company
Jan. 2007
President of Qingdao Ariake Foodstuff Co.,Ltd.
May 2007
President of Taiwan Ariake Foods Co., Ltd.
(current position)
June 2007
Representative Director and President of theCompany (current position)
Jan. 2011
Director and President of F. P. NaturalIngredients SAS
Nov. 2013
Director and President of Henningsen
Nederland B. V.
June 2016
Director (current position)
June 2017
Director of F. P. Natural Ingredients SAS(current position)(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
President of Taiwan Ariake Foods Co., Ltd.

Number of theCompany’s shares
owned-3-33,928 shares

CandidateNo.

Name(Date of birth)

Career summary, positions and responsibilities in the Company(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Mar. 1977
June 1991

Reelection
2

Katsutoshi Iwaki(June 23, 1948)

Reelection
3

Naoki Shirakawa(February 28, 1957)

Reelection
4

Yoshikazu Uchida(April 19, 1960)

Joined Ariake Shokuhin Kako Co., Ltd.
Senior Managing Director and General
Manager of Internal Audit Office of theCompany
July 1999
Director and President of Ariake Shokuhin
Kako Hanbai Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2001
Joined the Company (Due to the merger anddissolution of Ariake Shokuhin Kako HanbaiCo., Ltd.)
June 2001Director, General Manager of Administration
Department, and General Manager of Osaka
BranchMay 2002
Senior Managing Director
June 2003
President of Qingdao Ariake Foodstuff Co.,Ltd.
June 2005
Senior Managing Director and General
Manager of Sales Department of the Company
June 2008
Senior Managing Director and General
Manager of Internal Control OfficeFeb. 2010
President of Qingdao Ariake Foodstuff Co.,Ltd.
June 2014
Representative Director and Executive Vice
President, General Manager of Overseas
Affiliates-managed and Internal Control Officeof the Company (current position)
Mar. 2016
Director and President of PT. Ariake Europe
Indonesia (current position)(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Director and President of PT. Ariake Europe Indonesia
Apr. 1981
Joined Ariake Shokuhin Kako Co., Ltd.
Apr. 1998
General Manager of Kyushu Plant Quality
Control Department of the Company
Mar. 1999
General Manager of Kyushu Plant ProductionDepartment
June 1999
Director and General Manager of Kyushu Plant
Production Department
June 2001
Director and General Manager of No. 2 Kyushu
Plant Production Department
May 2006
Director and General Manager of TechnologicalDevelopment Department
June 2015
Managing Director and General Manager ofTechnological Development Department
Oct. 2015
Managing Director and General Manager ofProduction Department (current position)
Apr. 1988
Joined Ariake Shokuhin Kako Hanbai Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2001
Joined the Company (Due to the merger anddissolution of Ariake Shokuhin Kako HanbaiCo., Ltd.)
Apr. 2006
General Manager of Tokyo Sales Department 1June 2007
Director and General Manager of Tokyo Sales
Department 1Feb. 2011
Director and General Manager of Sales
Department
June 2015
Managing Director and General Manager ofSales Department (current position)

Number of theCompany’s shares
owned-4-

90,095 shares

9,910 shares

1,512 shares

CandidateNo.

Name(Date of birth)

Career summary, positions and responsibilities in the Company(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
Feb. 1979
Apr. 2001

56Notes:Number of theCompany’s shares
ownedJoined Ariake Shokuhin Kako Co., Ltd.
General Manager of Accounting Department ofthe Company
June 2007
Director and General Manager of Accounting
Department and Administration Department
Reelection(current position)
20,217 sharesJan. 2014
Audit & Supervisory Board Member ofKouichi Matsumoto
Qingdao Ariake Foodstuff Co., Ltd. (current(March 30, 1958)
position)
Apr. 2015
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Taiwan
Ariake Foods Co., Ltd. (current position)
Mar. 2016
Audit & Supervisory Board Member of PT.
Ariake Europe Indonesia (current position)
Feb. 1998
Joined Ariake Shokuhin Kako Hanbai Co., Ltd.
Apr. 2001
Joined the Company (Due to the merger anddissolution of Ariake Shokuhin Kako HanbaiCo., Ltd.)New election
July 2013
General Manager of Tokyo Sales Department 2
282 shares
June 2015
Executive Officer and General Manager ofKouji Iwaki
Tokyo Sales Department 2(February 18, 1965)
Sept. 2016
Executive Officer and General Manager of
Osaka Branch
Apr. 2018
Executive Officer and General Manager ofGeneral Affairs Department (current position)
1. Tomoki Tagawa concurrently serves as President of Taiwan Ariake Foods Co., Ltd., with whom the Company has traderelations for transactions such as purchase of raw materials and merchandise as well as sales of products andmerchandise. He also serves as Director of Ariake Europe N. V. and F. P. Natural Ingredients SAS, with whom theCompany has trade relations for transactions such as purchase of raw materials and merchandise.
2. Katsutoshi Iwaki concurrently serves as Director and President of PT. Ariake Europe Indonesia.
3. There is no special interest between any other candidates and the Company.

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Payment of Bonuses to Officers

Taking into account the factors such as the amounts paid in the past and the Company’s performance during thefiscal year under review, the Company proposes to pay bonuses totaling ¥70 million to the five Directors(excluding Directors who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members) in office as of the end of the fiscal year
under review.
In addition, the Audit and Supervisory Committee has neither made any comment nor raised any objection for this
proposal during and after its review.

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