(Translation)

Articles of IncorporationofHitachi, Ltd.

(Amended as of July 1, 2024)

Articles of IncorporationofHitachi, Ltd.
Establishment:Amendments:February 1, 1920
June 27, 1920
November 26, 1928
October 27, 1933
October 28, 1937
October 27, 1939
April 28, 1941
April 10, 1944
October 27, 1944
May 20, 1946
August 4, 1948
November 28, 1949
November 28, 1955
November 28, 1957
August 31, 1962
May 28, 1963
November 28, 1974
June 27, 1991
June 29, 1999
June 26, 2002
June 25, 2003
May 1, 2006
May 1, 2015
June 22, 2022
July 1, 2024

December 25, 1923
May 28, 1929
April 26, 1935
October 27, 1938
August 28, 1940
April 27, 1943
April 27, 1944
April 27, 1945
April 26, 1947
December 27, 1948
October 29, 1951
October 1, 1956
May 29, 1961
November 28, 1962
November 28, 1967
June 28, 1982
June 29, 1994
June 28, 2000
February 6, 2003
June 24, 2004
June 27, 2006
June 25, 2015
August 24, 2022

August 25, 1928
January 27, 1933
January 27, 1937
February 25, 1939
December 19, 1940
November 9, 1943
August 25, 1944
September 19, 1945
February 16, 1948
September 28, 1949
November 26, 1954
May 28, 1957
November 28, 1961
April 1, 1963May 28, 1969
June 29, 1989
June 26, 1998
October 1, 2001
April 1, 2003
June 24, 2005
June 23, 2009
October 1, 2018
March 1, 2023

Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1. (Corporate name)
The Company shall be called “Kabushiki Kaisha Hitachi Seisakusho” in Japanese and“Hitachi, Ltd.” in English.
Article 2. (Corporate purpose)
The purpose of the Company shall be to carry on the following businesses:
1. Manufacture and sale of electrical machinery and appliances.
2. Manufacture and sale of industrial machinery and appliances.
3. Manufacture and sale of rolling stock.
4. Manufacture and sale of telecommunication and electronic machinery andappliances.
5. Manufacture and sale of lighting and household machinery and appliances.
6. Manufacture and sale of optical and medical machinery and instruments.
7. Manufacture and sale of measuring and other general machinery and appliances.
8. Manufacture and sale of materials related to the products mentioned in any of theforegoing items.
9. Preparation and sale of software.
10. Preparation and sale of images, software and data related to multimedia.
11. Leasing and maintenance services of the products mentioned in any of theforegoing items.
12. Supply of electricity.
13. Telecommunication, information processing and information supply services, aswell as broadcasting.
14. Undertaking of commercial transactions and payment transactions by utilizing theInternet.
15. Provision of results of research and development related to biotechnology.
16. Consulting on any of the foregoing items.
17. Licensing of industrial property rights and know-how.
18. Undertaking of engineering related to any of the foregoing items.
19. Design, supervision and undertaking of construction work.
20. Money lending, factoring, debt guarantee and investment advisory business.
21. Home health care service business, home health care support business and theoperation of health care and nursing facilities under the Health Care Insurance
Law.
22. Any and all businesses related to the foregoing items.
Article 3.

(Company with Nominating Committee, etc.)
The Company shall have the Board of Directors, Nominating Committee, etc. (meaningthe Nominating Committee, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee; hereinafter thesame shall apply), Accounting Auditors and Executive Officers.

Article 4. (Location of head office)
The Company shall have its head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
Article 5. (Method of public notices)
The method of public notices of the Company shall be given by electronic public notices;
provided, however, that if the Company is prevented from giving such public notices in theform of electronic media due to accidents or other causes beyond its control, public notices ofthe Company shall be given by publication in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
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Chapter II Shares
Article 6. (Total shares authorized to be issued)
The total shares authorized to be issued by the Company shall be 10,000,000,000 shares.
Article 7. (Number of shares per one unit)
The number of shares per one unit of shares of the Company shall be 100 shares.
Article 8. (Rights regarding less-than-one-unit shares)
Any shareholder, who holds less-than-one-unit shares of the Company, shall have noright to exercise other than those stipulated below regarding such less-than-one-unit shares.
1. Rights listed in items of Article 189, paragraph 2 of the Companies Act;
2. Rights to receive allotment of share offering to shareholders and allotment ofstock acquisition rights; and3. Rights specified in these Articles of Incorporation
Any less-than-one-unit shareholder of the Company shall be entitled to request theCompany to sell the number of shares that will, together with such less-than-one-unit shares,
constitute a full unit of shares.
Article 9.

(Administrator of shareholders’ register)
The Company shall have an administrator of its shareholders’ register.

Article 10.

(Regulations on Handling of Shares, etc.)
In addition to what is provided in laws, regulations or these Articles of Incorporation,
handling of exercise of rights as shareholders of the Company, any other matters relating to thehandling of shares and stock acquisition rights and fees related thereto shall be governed by
the Regulations on Handling of Shares, etc. established by the Executive Officer authorized by
the Board of Directors.

Chapter III Organs
Section 1. General Meeting of Shareholders
Article 11.

(Record date for the purpose of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders)
The Company shall regard the shareholders registered as of the last date of each businessyear as shareholders entitled to exercise the rights of shareholders at the Ordinary General
Meeting of Shareholders for such business year.

Article 12.

(Chairmanship)
Chairmanship of a General Meeting of Shareholders shall be assumed by the President &CEO. If the President & CEO is prevented from discharging his duties, another person shallact as such chairman in the order previously fixed by the resolution of the Board of Directors.

Article 13. (Electronic provision, etc.)
In convening the General Meetings of Shareholders, the Company shall take measures forelectronic provision of information that constitutes the contents of reference documents for theGeneral Meeting of Shareholders, etc. as provided in Article 325-2 of the Companies Act.
Among the matters to be provided electronically, the Company may not include all orpart of those matters as provided in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Justice in paper-based
documents to be delivered to shareholders who requested the delivery of materials in
paper-based format by the record date for the purpose of the General Meeting of Shareholders
as provided in Article 325-5 of the Companies Act.
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Article 14.

(Exercise of voting rights by proxy)
A shareholder may appoint a proxy who exercises such shareholder’s voting rights onbehalf of such shareholder; provided, however, that such proxy must be a shareholder of theCompany entitled to vote.
In the case mentioned in the preceding paragraph, a document certifying the power ofrepresentation shall be submitted to the Company in advance.

Article 15.

(Method of adopting resolutions)
Unless otherwise provided by laws, regulations or these Articles of Incorporation,resolutions at a General Meeting of Shareholders shall be adopted by a majority of the votes ofthe shareholders who are present in such meeting and are entitled to vote.
Any resolution as provided in Article 309, paragraph 2 of the Companies Act shall beadopted at a General Meeting of Shareholders at which shareholders representing one-third or
more of the voting rights of all the shareholders shall be present, by a majority of two-thirds ormore of the voting rights of the shareholders who are present in such meeting and are entitledto vote.

Article 16. (General Meeting of Shareholders without Specifying its Venue)
The Company may hold the General Meeting of Shareholders without specifying its
venue when the Board of Directors of the Company decides that it is not appropriate in light of
the interests of shareholders as well, to hold a General Meeting of Shareholders with aspecified venue, in situations including the spread of infectious diseases or the occurrence oflarge-scale disasters such as natural disasters.
Section 2.

Directors, Board of Directors and Nominating Committee, etc.

Article 17. (Number)
The Company shall have not more than 20 Directors.
Article 18.

(Election)
For the adoption of resolutions for the election of Directors, the presence of shareholders
representing one-third or more of the voting rights of shareholders who are entitled to voteshall be required at the General Meeting of Shareholders.
Resolutions under the preceding paragraph shall not be made by cumulative voting.

Article 19.

(Term of office)The term of office of Directors shall expire at the close of the Ordinary General Meetingof Shareholders for the last business year that will end within one year after their election;
provided, however, that the term of office of those Directors who have newly assumed officewhile the other Directors are still in office shall be for the remaining balance of the term ofoffice of the other Directors presently in office.

Article 20. (Director to convene and preside over meetings of the Board of Directors)
By resolution of the Board of Directors, a Director who convenes and presides overmeetings of the Board of Directors shall be selected.
Article 21. (Convening of meeting of the Board of Directors)
Notice for convening a meeting of the Board of Directors shall be dispatched to each
Director one week prior to the date of the meeting; provided, however, that in case of urgency,such period may be shortened and such notice may be dispatched by the preceding day to thedate of the meeting.
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(Resolutions of the Board of Directors without meeting)
Matters that require resolutions in a meeting of the Board of Directors may be resolved
without holding a meeting if all Directors who are entitled to vote for such resolutions express
unanimously in writing or in electromagnetic recording media their consent or approval onsuch matters; and such unanimous consent or approval shall be treated as if resolutions wereeffectively adopted in a meeting of the Board of Directors.

Article 23.

(Exemption of Directors from liabilities)
The Company may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, exempt any Director(including former Directors) from liabilities as provided in Article 423, paragraph 1 of theCompanies Act to the extent as provided in laws or regulations.
The Company may enter into an agreement with any Director (excluding ExecutiveDirector, etc.) to limit liabilities as provided in Article 423, paragraph 1 of the Companies Actof such Director to the extent in the aggregate amount as provided in items of Article 425,
paragraph 1 of the Companies Act.

Article 24. (Board of Directors Regulations)
In addition to what is provided by laws, regulations or these Articles of Incorporation, thematters concerning the Board of Directors shall be governed by the Board of Directors
Regulations established by the Board of Directors.
Article 25. (Regulations of Committees)
In addition to what is provided by laws, regulations, these Articles of Incorporation or by
the Board of Directors, the matters concerning Nominating Committee, etc. shall be governedby the regulations thereof established by each such Committee.
Section 3.

Executive Officers

Article 26.

(Number)
By resolution of the Board of Directors, the Company shall have not more than 40
Executive Officers.

Article 27.

(Term of office)The term of office of Executive Officers shall expire on the last day of the business yearthat ends within one year from their election.

Article 28. (President & CEO)By resolution of the Board of Directors, a President & CEO shall be selected, provided
that the President & CEO must be a Representative Executive Officer.
Article 29.

(Exemption of Executive Officers from liabilities)
The Company may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, exempt any ExecutiveOfficers (including former Executive Officers) from liabilities as provided in Article 423,
paragraph 1 of the Companies Act to the extent as provided in laws or regulations.
Section 4. Chairmen Emeritus

Article 30. (Chairmen Emeritus)
The Company may have Chairmen Emeritus by resolution of the Board of Directors.

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Article 31.

(Business year)
The business year of the Company shall start on April 1 every year and end on March 31of the following year.
(Distribution of surplus and repurchase of the Company’s shares)
The Company may, unless otherwise provided in the applicable laws, make decisions onmatters specified in items of Article 459, paragraph 1 of the Companies Act by resolution ofits Board of Directors, without resolution at the General Meeting of Shareholders.

Article 32.

Article 33.

(Record date for the purpose of distribution of surplus, etc.)Any distributions of surplus by the Company shall be to the shareholders or registeredpledgees as of March 31 or September 30 of each year.
In addition to the dates specified above, the Company may designate another record date
for the purpose of distributing surplus.
If a distribution of surplus is not received within three years from the date it became dueand payable, the Company shall be relieved of the obligation to pay such distribution ofsurplus.

Supplementary Provisions
Article 1. (Transitional measure regarding exemption of Directors from liabilities)
The Company may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, exempt any Director fromliabilities in respect of any act prior to the close of the Ordinary General Meeting ofShareholders for the accounting period ended March 2003 as provided in Article 266,
paragraph 1, item 5 of the Commercial Code of Japan (hereinafter the “Former CommercialCode) before it was revised in accordance with the Law Regarding Creation of Relevant Laws
in Response to the Enactment of the Companies Act to the extent as provided in laws orregulations.
Article 2. (Transitional measure regarding exemption of Corporate Auditors from liabilities)
The Company may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, exempt any Corporate
Auditor from liabilities as provided in the Former Commercial Code prior to the close of theOrdinary General Meeting of Shareholders for the accounting period ended March 2003 to theextent as provided in laws or regulations.

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