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. EIZO Corporation assumes no responsibility for this translation or for direct, indirect, or any
other form of damage which may arise as a result of this translation.
(Securities Code: 6737)
May 31, 2018

To Our Shareholders:
Yoshitaka Jitsumori
President & CEO
EIZO Corporation
153 Shimokashiwano, Hakusan,
Ishikawa, JapanNOTICE OF CONVOCATION OF
THE 51ST ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
We would like to express our appreciation for your continued support.
You are hereby notified that the 51st Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of EIZO Corporation(the “Company”) will be held as described below. You are respectfully requested to attend themeeting.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, you may exercise your voting rights in writing or via
the Internet. In such case, please review the attached “Reference Documents for the General
Meeting of Shareholders” and exercise your voting rights no later than 5:15 p.m. on
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 (Japan time), following the guidance described below.

1.

Date and Time:Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 10:00 a.m.
(The reception desk opens at 9:15 a.m.)

2.

Place:

Concert Hall, 1st floor, Hakusan City Matto Learning Center(Hakusan-shi Matto Gakushu Center)
305, Furushiro-machi, Hakusan-shi, Ishikawa, Japan

3.

Meeting Agenda:
Items to be reported:

1.

2.

Item to be resolved:
Proposal 1:
Proposal 2:

Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements andresults of audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements
by the Accounting Auditor and the Audit and Supervisory
Committee for the Company’s 51st Fiscal Year (April 1,2017 - March 31, 2018)
Non-consolidated Financial Statements for the Company’s
51st Fiscal Year (April 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018)

Election of Three (3) Directors (excluding Directors serving as
Audit and Supervisory Committee Members)
Election of Four (4) Directors serving as Audit and Supervisory
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- When attending the meeting, please submit the enclosed Voting Rights Exercise Form at thereception desk.
- Pursuant to laws and regulations, and the provisions of Article 16 of the Articles of Incorporationof the Company, of the documents to be attached to this Notice, “Consolidated Statement of
Changes in Equity,” “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements,” “Non-consolidated Statementof Changes in Equity” and “Notes to Non-consolidated Financial Statements” are posted on the
Company’s website below and are not provided in this Notice.
Therefore, the documents attached to this Notice are a part of the Consolidated Financial
Statements and Non-consolidated Financial Statements audited by the Accounting Auditor and the
Audit and Supervisory Committee, in preparing their respective audit reports.
- If any revisions should be made to the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of
Shareholders, Business Reports, Consolidated Financial Statements, and Non-consolidated
Financial Statements, they will be posted on the Company’s website, as mentioned below.
- An explanatory meeting will be held after the General Meeting of Shareholders to deepen
shareholders’ understanding of the Company’s corporate strategy and business model. You arewelcome to attend.
- After the General Meeting of Shareholders, the outcomes of resolutions will be posted on the
Company’s website below.
The Company’s website (http://www.eizo.co.jp/ir/invitation/)-2-

Exercise of Voting Rights:
If you are unable to attend the meeting, you may exercise your voting rights through either of themethods described below.
Exercise of your voting rights in writing
Please indicate your votes for or against the proposal on the enclosed Voting Rights Exercise
Form and return the form by mail so that it will arrive no later than 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday,June 20, 2018 (Japan time).
Exercise of your voting rights via the Internet
Please access the website for exercising voting rights (https://www.web54.net) and enter yourvotes for or against the proposal no later than 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 (Japantime).
If you exercise your voting rights both in writing and via the Internet, your vote via the Internet will
be considered a valid exercise of voting rights. If you exercise your voting rights multiple times via
the Internet, or if you exercise your voting rights both via PC and mobile devices, etc., only the mostrecent vote will be considered a valid exercise of voting rights.

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Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders
Proposal 1: Election of Three (3) Directors (excluding Directors serving as Audit andSupervisory Committee Members)
The terms of office of all three (3) Directors (excluding Directors serving as Audit andSupervisory Committee Members) will expire at the conclusion of this General Meeting of
Shareholders. Therefore, the election of three (3) Directors (excluding Directors serving as
Audit and Supervisory Committee Members) is proposed. With respect to this proposal, theCompany has already obtained the opinion of the Audit and Supervisory Committee that allof the candidates for Director are qualified to serve.
The candidates for Director (excluding Directors serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee
Members) are as follows.
Candidate No.1

Name (Date of birth)
Yoshitaka Jitsumori(April 16, 1944)
Reappointment

Number of shares of theCompany held145,600 shares
Attendance at the Boardof Directors meetings
9 out of 9

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company(Significant concurrent positions)
May 1994
Executive Director
June 1995*Senior Executive Director
June 1997*Executive Vice President
June 2001*President & CEO (to present)*Representative Director(Significant concurrent positions)
EIZO MS Corporation, President & CEO
EIZO Support Network Corporation, President & CEO
EIZO Medical Solutions Inc., President & CEO
Irem Software Engineering Inc., Director
EIZO Inc., Director, Chairman
EIZO Nordic AB, Board Member
EIZO AG, Präsident
EIZO Europe GmbH, President & CEO[Reasons for the election of the candidate for Director]
As President & CEO, Mr. Yoshitaka Jitsumori has been overseeing themanagement of EIZO Group based on a wealth of experience, thereby
contributing to its enhanced corporate value. He has demonstrated extensive
knowledge and strong leadership in pursuing the Group’s growth strategy
and improving its business performance. He has been nominated as a
candidate for Director because the Company expects that he will continue tocontribute to the further growth of the Group by appropriately executing his
duties and supervising corporate management as a Director.

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Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company(Significant concurrent positions)
March 1979
April 2001
April 2006

Name (Date of birth)
Yuichi Murai(August 25, 1956)
Reappointment

Number of shares of theCompany held
10,168 shares
Attendance at the Boardof Directors meetings
9 out of 9

Joined the Company
Senior Manager, Human Resources Dept.
Operating Officer, Senior Manager, Human Resources
Dept.
June 2007
Director, Operating Officer, Senior Manager, Human
Resources Dept.
October 2011
Director, Executive Operating Officer, Responsible forGeneral Affairs and Human Resources, Senior
Manager, General Affairs Dept.
October 2014
Director, Executive Operating Officer,
Senior Manager, General Affairs Dept. and Human
Resources Dept.
June 2016
Director, Senior Executive Operating Officer ,Responsible for General Affairs and Human Resources,
Senior Manager, Human Resources Dept. (to present)(Significant concurrent positions)
EIZO Agency Corporation, President & CEO
EIZO Display Technologies (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Director[Reasons for the election of the candidate for Director]
Mr. Yuichi Murai has been responsible for managing the Group based on a
wealth of experience, thereby contributing to its enhanced corporate value.
As a Director mainly responsible for administrative departments, he has
been engaged in strengthening and promoting compliance. He has the highlevel of expertise and insights required to ensure appropriate and improved
management. He has been nominated as a candidate for Director because
the Company expects that he will continue to contribute to the further
growth of the Group by appropriately executing his duties and supervising
corporate management as a Director.

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Candidate No.3

Name (Date of birth)
Tsutomu Tanabe(December 12, 1944)
Reappointment

December 1997
June 2001
June 2004
August 2008
June 2016

Senior Executive Director*Senior Executive Director*Executive Vice President*Executive Vice President & CFO
Director, Senior Advisor (to present)*Representative Director(Significant concurrent positions)-

Number of shares of theCompany held
66,000 shares
Attendance at the Boardof Directors meetings
9 out of 9

[Reasons for the election of the candidate for Director]
Mr. Tsutomu Tanabe has been responsible for managing the Group based ona wealth of experience as a Director, thereby contributing to its enhanced
corporate value. He has provided appropriate opinions and proposals in orderto help promote the future stability of the Group’s businesses based, inparticular, on a broad knowledge of accounting and finance. He has been
nominated as a candidate for Director because the Company expects that hewill continue to contribute to the further growth of the Group by fairly
supervising its corporate management.

Note: There are no special interests between any of the above candidates for Director and the Company.

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Proposal 2: Election of Four (4) Directors serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee
Members
The terms of office of all four (4) Directors serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee
Members will expire at the conclusion of this General Meeting of Shareholders. Therefore, theelection of four (4) Directors serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee Members is
proposed. With respect to this proposal, the Company has already obtained the consent of the
Audit and Supervisory Committee.
The candidates for Director serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee Members are as
follows.
Candidate No.1

Name (Date of birth)
Masaaki Suzuki(May 21, 1947)
Reappointment
External
Independent

Number of shares of theCompany held
900 shares
Attendance at the Boardof Directors meetings
9 out of 9
Attendance at the Audit
and Supervisory
Committee meetings
9 out of 9

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company(Significant concurrent positions)
April 1971
Joined Nippon Kangyo Bank, Ltd. (Dai-Ichi Kangyo
Bank, Ltd. as of October 1971, Mizuho Financial Group,
Inc. currently)
June 1999
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd., Director, Senior Manager,
Sales Division VII
May 2001
Managing Executive Officer
April 2002
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., Managing Executive
OfficerMarch 2003
Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Managing Executive Officer
November 2004
NIPPON TOCHI-TATEMONO Co., Ltd., Senior
Managing Executive Officer
June 2005
Hokuetsu Pulp Co., Ltd., Managing Director
June 2009*Hokuetsu Package Co., Ltd., President & CEO
June 2011
NIPPON TOCHI-TATEMONO Co., Ltd., Counsellor
June 2012
External Director of the Company
June 2016
External Director (serving as Audit and Supervisory
Committee Members) of the Company (to present)*Representative Director(Significant concurrent positions)[Reasons for the election of the candidate for External Director serving as
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member]
As an External Director, Mr. Masaaki Suzuki has offered his valuable andstraight opinions and proposals on the decision-making processes of theCompany, based on a wealth of experience acquired at a financial institution
and experience developed in the management of business corporations, aswell as extensive knowledge, thereby contributing to the soundness andtransparency of the management. He has been nominated as a candidate forExternal Director serving as an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
because the Company expects that he will continue to contribute to enhancing
the corporate value of the Company by strengthening the effectiveness of its
management oversight functions.

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Candidate No.2

Name (Date of birth)
Kazuhiko Deminami(July 10, 1959)
Reappointment

Number of shares of theCompany held
8,000 shares
Attendance at the Boardof Directors meetings
9 out of 9
Attendance at the Audit
and Supervisory
Committee meetings
9 out of 9

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company(Significant concurrent positions)
March 1982
Joined the Company
October 2002

Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance Dept.

July 2004

Senior Manager, General Affairs Dept.

April 2007

Operating Officer, Senior Manager, General Affairs Dept.

April 2009

Senior General Councilor, Senior Manager, Internal
Auditing Dept.
October 2011
Operating Officer, Senior Manager, Accounting &Finance Dept.
January 2015
Irem Software Engineering Inc., Director, Senior
Manager, Administrations Dept.
June 2016
Director serving as Audit and Supervisory Committee
Members of the Company (to present)(Significant concurrent positions)[Reasons for the election of the candidate for Director serving as Audit andSupervisory Committee Member]
Mr. Kazuhiko Deminami has held positions as Senior Manager for General
Affairs Dept. and Accounting & Finance Dept. and Director of a groupcompany, and has executed the duties of a full-time Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member fairly and appropriately, based on an extensive experienceand high levels of expertise and insights in accounting and finance. He has
been nominated as a candidate for Director serving as an Audit andSupervisory Committee Member because the Company expects that he willcontinue to contribute to enhancing the corporate value of the Company bystrengthening the effectiveness of its management oversight functions.

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Candidate No.3

April 1973

Joined Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

July 2001

Vice President

Name (Date of birth)
Atsushi Inoue(October 7, 1948)

June 2003

Board Member, Vice President

June 2005

Board Member, Executive Vice President

June 2010

Board Member, Senior Executive Vice President

Reappointment
External
Independent

June 2011
June 2012

Senior Executive Vice President, Director of Device
Business Unit
Executive Counsellor

June 2012

External Corporate Auditor of the Company

Number of shares of theCompany held
0 shares

June 2016

External Director serving as Audit and Supervisory
Committee Members of the Company (to present)(Significant concurrent positions)-

Attendance at the Boardof Directors meetings
9 out of 9
Attendance at the Audit
and Supervisory
Committee meetings
9 out of 9

[Reasons for the election of the candidate for External Director serving as
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member]
Mr. Atsushi Inoue has offered his valuable and straight opinions and proposals
on the decision-making processes of the Company, based on a wealth ofexperience developed as a manager of a business corporation and extensive
knowledge, thereby executing his duties as an External Director fairly andneutrally. He has been nominated as a candidate for External Director serving
as an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member because the Company
expects that he will continue to contribute to enhancing the corporate value of
the Company by strengthening the effectiveness of its management oversightfunctions.

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Name (Date of birth)
Hiroji Takino(June 20, 1958)
New appointment
External
Independent

Number of shares of theCompany held
0 shares

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company(Significant concurrent positions)
April 1981

Joined Hokuriku Bank, Ltd.

June 2013

Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Ishikawa Regional
Business Division and General Manager of Kanazawa
BranchManaging Executive Officer, Head of Fukui Regional
Business Division and Head of Nagoya-Osaka Regional
Business Division
Managing Executive Officer (to present)

June 2016

April 2018

Scheduled to retire in June 2018
(Significant concurrent positions)
Scheduled to be appointed President & CEO* of Hokutate Co., Ltd. in June
2018
*Representative Director[Reasons for the election of the candidate for External Director serving as
Audit and Supervisory Committee Member]
Mr. Hiroji Takino has been nominated as a candidate for External Director
serving as an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member because theCompany expects that he will further strengthen its management oversightfunctions by reflecting his extensive experience acquired at a financial
institution and his extensive knowledge to the management of the Group.

Notes:
1. There are no special interests between any of the above candidates for Director serving as Audit andSupervisory Committee Member and the Company.
2. Mr. Hiroji Takino is a newly selected candidate for Director.
3. Mr. Masaaki Suzuki, Mr. Atsushi Inoue, and Mr. Hiroji Takino are all candidates for External Director.
4. Mr. Masaaki Suzuki is currently an External Director of the Company and will have held this position forsix (6) years (for two (2) years as an External Director serving as an Audit and Supervisory Committee
Member), at the conclusion of this General Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Atsushi Inoue is also currently
an External Director serving as an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member for two (2) years at theconclusion of this General Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Atsushi Inoue formerly served as an officer otherthan a person executing business operations (Corporate Auditor).
5. The Company has entered into agreements, in accordance with the provision of Article 427, Paragraph 1,of the Companies Act, with Mr. Masaaki Suzuki and Mr. Atsushi Inoue, to limit their liabilities under
Article 423, Paragraph 1, of the Companies Act. The maximum liability under these agreements is theminimum liability provided in laws and regulations. If Mr. Masaaki Suzuki and Mr. Atsushi Inoue arereappointed as External Directors, the Company will continue the aforementioned liability limitationagreements with them. The Company is scheduled to enter into a liability limitation agreement with Mr.
Hiroji Takino if approval is given for him to be appointed as External Director.
6. The Company designated Mr. Masaaki Suzuki and Mr. Atsushi Inoue as Independent Directors as
stipulated under the regulation of Tokyo Stock Exchange and registered them as such at the Exchange. If
this proposal is approved, they will continue to be Independent Directors. Mr. Hiroji Takino also meetsthe requirements for an Independent Director in accordance with the regulation of Tokyo Stock Exchange,
and the Company is scheduled to designate him as such at the Exchange if approval is given for Mr. Hiroji
Takino to be appointed as External Director.
7. Mr. Masaaki Suzuki, Mr. Atsushi Inoue, and Mr. Hiroji Takino, all satisfy the requirements establishedby the Company under “Criteria for Independence of External Directors” (see next page).

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(Reference) Criteria for Independence of External Directors

1. The Board of Directors of EIZO Corporation deems an External Director or a candidate forExternal Director to have independence in the event that he/she does not fall under any of theitems below in the current fiscal year and in the previous three (3) fiscal years.
(1) A person executing business operations (*) of EIZO Group’s business partner, its parent
company, or important subsidiary whose transaction amount exceeds two (2) % of theconsolidated net sales of EIZO Group or the business partner.
(2) A person executing business operations of a financial institution or other lenders, or its parent
company or important subsidiary which is indispensable for EIZO Group’s financing and on
which the Group depends to the extent that there is no substitute.
(3) A consultant, accounting professional, or legal professional who has received from EIZOGroup monetary consideration or other properties equivalent to ten (10) million yen or moreduring a year, excluding officers’ remuneration (in case a corporation, association, or otherorganization receives such properties, a person who belongs to such organization).
(4) A person executing business operations of a major shareholder of EIZO Corporation (whoholds ten (10) % or more of the voting rights of the Company directly or indirectly) or its
parent company or important subsidiary.
(5) A representative partner, certified public accountant, partner, or employee of the audit firmthat is the current Accounting Auditor of EIZO Group, or a person who has belonged to theaudit firm that was the Accounting Auditor of EIZO Group during the previous three (3) fiscal
years and was engaged in actual auditing work on EIZO Group.
(6) A person executing business operations or a Corporate Auditor of a company, or its parent
company or subsidiary that accepts Directors from EIZO Group.
(7) A person who has received a donation of ten (10) million yen or more during a year from
EIZO Group (in case a corporation, association, or other organization receives such donation,a Director of such an organization or a person directly involved in research, education, orother activities related to such a donation).
(8) A spouse or relative within the second degree of kinship of a person executing business
operations who falls under any of (1) to (7) above.
(9) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any other person who has special grounds that could give rise
to a conflict of interests with the Company or its general shareholders, preventing him/herfrom fulfilling duties as an independent External Director.
(*) A person executing business operations means a Director (excluding an External Director),
corporate officer, executive officer or other similar person, or employee.
2. In case an External Director ceases to have the independence stipulated in the Criteria, he/sheshall notify the Company immediately.
3. Amendments to the Criteria shall be resolved by the Board of Directors.

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