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April 18, 2024
To whom it may concern:
Company Name:

Lawson, Inc.

Name of Representative:

Sadanobu Takemasu
President, Representative Director(Securities Code: 2651 TSE Prime)

Contact:

Tomoki Takanishi
Senior Vice President andDivision Director of Financial Administration Division

Notice of Determination of Record Date for Convocation of Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting
The Company hereby announces that it resolved at the board of directors meeting held today as follows with regard todetermination of the record date required for convocation of an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting scheduled to be held
early July 2024 (the “Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting”).

1. Record date, etc. of the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting
In preparation for holding the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting, the Company has set May 8, 2024 (Wednesday) as therecord date to determine the shareholders who are entitled to exercise their voting rights at the Extraordinary Shareholders’Meeting, and the shareholders stated or recorded on the last shareholder register as of the said date shall be the shareholders
who are entitled to exercise their voting rights at the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting.
(1) Date of public notice:

April 23, 2024 (Tuesday)(2) Record date:

May 8, 2024 (Wednesday)(3) Method of public notice:Electronic public notice to be posted on the Company website
https://www.lawson.co.jp/koukoku/

2. Scheduled date and agenda items of the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting
As announced in the press release dated March 27, 2024 “Notice of Expression of Our Opinion in Favor of theCommencement of and Recommendation to Tender in the Tender Offer for Company’s Share Certificates by KDDICorporation”, if the tender offer for the Company’s shares (the “Company Shares”), Share Options (Note 1) and American
Depositary Receipts (Note 2) publicly announced by KDDI Corporation (the “Offeror”) on March 27, 2024 (the “TenderOffer”) is successfully completed and the Offeror is unable to acquire all of the Company Shares (excluding the Company
Shares owned by the Offeror and Mitsubishi Corporation (“MC”; the Offeror and MC collectively referred to as the “Offeror
Related Parties”) and the treasury shares owned by the Company), Share Options and American Depositary Receipts, theOfferor plans to implement a series of procedures to make the Offeror Related Parties the only shareholders of the Company
through the method described below following the successful completion of the Tender Offer.
Specifically, the Offerors plans, promptly after the completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer, to request the Companyto hold the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting the agenda items of which include items to consolidate the Company Sharesin accordance with Article 180 of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005, as amended; the “Companies Act”) (the “Share1

Consolidation”) and to partially amend the articles of incorporation to abolish the provisions of share units subject to theeffectuation of the Share Consolidation (such request is hereinafter referred to as the “Request”).
As stated in “1. Record date, etc. of the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting” above, the Company has decided to set therecord date required for convocation of the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting in advance in preparation for holding theExtraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting in accordance with the Request. When convening and holding the Extraordinary
Shareholders’ Meeting, the Company will inform the date and time and the place of the meeting as well as the details of theagenda items once they are determined.
If the Tender Offer is not successfully completed, the Company will not hold the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting nor
use the record date mentioned above.
(Note 1) “Share Options” collectively refer to the share options in (I) through (X) below:(I) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on March 25,2015 (the exercise period is from April 10, 2015 to March 24, 2035)(II) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on April 13,
2016 (the exercise period is from May 2, 2016 to April 13, 2036)(III) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on April 12,2017 (the exercise period is from May 1, 2017 to April 11, 2037)(IV) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on July 5,2017 (the exercise period is from July 21, 2017 to July 4, 2037)(V) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on May 22,2018 (the exercise period is from June 8, 2018 to May 21, 2038)(VI) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on May 21,
2019 (the exercise period is from June 7, 2019 to May 20, 2039)(VII) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on May 27,
2020 (the exercise period is from June 12, 2020 to May 26, 2040)(VIII) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on May 25,
2021 (the exercise period is from June 11, 2021 to May 24, 2041)(IX) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on May 25,
2022 (the exercise period is from June 10, 2022 to May 24, 2042)(X) Share option issued pursuant to the resolution of the Company’s board of directors meeting held on May 24,
2023 (the exercise period is from June 9, 2023 to May 23, 2043)(Note 2) “American Depositary Receipts” refer to American depositary receipts related to the Company Shares issued by
Citibank, N.A. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas in the United States
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