Notice of partial amendment to the Articles of Incorporation
We would like to inform you hereby of the resolution made by the Board of Directors on May 11, 2009that a partial amendment to the Articles of Incorporation be proposed at the 113th Ordinary General
Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 29, 2009.
1. Reasons for amendments to the Articles of Incorporation(1)

By virtue of Article 6, Paragraph 1, of the Supplementary Provisions of the “Act for Partial
Revision to the Act on Transfer of Bonds, etc., for Streamlining and Rationalizing Settlement ofTrades of Stock and Other Securities” (Act No. 88 of 2004; hereinafter referred to as “Settlement
Rationalization Act”), as for the Company, a resolution of a shareholders’ meeting to abolish theprovision of issuance of share certificates in the Articles of Incorporation is deemed to have been
made on the implementation date of dematerialization of share certificates (January 5, 2009). As
a result, Article 7, Article 9 Paragraph 2, and the provision concerning the Register of Beneficial
Shareholders and the Register of Cancellation of Share Certificates in Article 12 Paragraph 3 ofthe current Articles of Incorporation have become unnecessary. The amendments are proposed inorder to remove these unnecessary provisions. However, in compliance with the legal provision
which requires that the Register of Cancellation of Share Certificates shall be kept until after theelapse of one year from the date immediately following the date of implementation of Settlement
Rationalization Act, relevant provisions shall be created as a transitional measure in theSupplementary Provisions of the Articles of Incorporation.

(2)

The amendments are proposed to regulate other relevant provisions reflecting the amendments inthe above (1).

(3)

The amendments are proposed to increase the number of authorized shares from 1.2 billion sharesprovided in the current Article 6 to 1.8 billion shares, thereby allowing for expeditious funding
and capital policy in preparation for prompt and flexible undertaking of the businesses and soconducting M&A in view of the increasingly severe economic environment surrounding ourbusinesses.

2. Details of amendments
The details of the amendments are shown in the attachment.
3. Scheduled dates
Date of shareholders’ general meeting for the amendments
to the Articles of Incorporation:
Effective date of the amendments:

June 26, 2009 (Fri.)
June 26, 2009 (Fri.)(Appendix)
Proposals 1 and 2 for the amendments to the Articles of Incorporation(Amended parts are underlined.)
Current provisions
Proposed provisions<to be removed>(Issuance of Share Certificates)
Art. 7The Company shall issue sharecertificates representing its shares.
(Acquisition of Shares of the Company's Stock)
Art. 8<omitted>(Acquisition of Shares of the Company's Stock)
Art. 7<to remain unchanged>(Number of Shares Comprising One Unit)(Number of Shares Comprising One Unit)
The number of shares of the Company Art. 8
Art. 9<to remain unchanged>
comprising one unit shall be onethousand (1,000) shares.
Notwithstanding the provisions ofArticle 7, the Company shall not issue
share certificates representing
less-than-one-unit shares; provided,
however, that this provision shall not
apply to cases as provided in theRegulations for Handling of Shares.

<to be removed>(Custodian of the Register of Shareholders)(Custodian of the Register of Shareholders)Art. 12 The Company shall have a custodian Art. 11 < to remain unchanged >of the Register of Shareholders.
The custodian of the Register ofShareholders and its place of businessshall be determined by a resolution ofthe Board of Directors and notified
publicly.

< to remain unchanged >The preparation and keeping of theRegister of Shareholders (including
the Register of Beneficial
Shareholders; hereinafter referred toin the same way), the Register ofSubscription Rights and the Registerof Cancellation of Share Certificatesof the Company and other mattersrelating to the Register ofShareholders, the Register ofSubscription Rights and the Registerof Cancellation of Share Certificatesshall be entrusted to the custodian of
the Register of Shareholders and nothandled by the Company.

The preparation and keeping of theRegister of Shareholders and theRegister of Subscription Rights of theCompany and other matters relating
to the Register of Shareholders andthe Register of Subscription Rights
shall be entrusted to the custodian of
the Register of Shareholders and nothandled by the Company.

Arts.
13–34<omitted>

Arts.
12–33

(Art. 13 be renumbered as Art. 12 andthe subsequent articles through Art.34
be renumbered in the same manner.)(Dividends)
Art. 35 Dividends of the Company shall be
paid to the shareholders or registeredpledgees whose names are [statedor]* recorded in the Register ofShareholders of the Company as of
the 31st day of March each year by aresolution of the General Meeting ofShareholders.

(Dividends)
Art. 34 Dividends of the Company shall be
paid to the shareholders or registeredpledgees whose names are recorded inthe Register of Shareholders of theCompany as of the 31st day of Marcheach year by a resolution of theGeneral Meeting of Shareholders.

(Interim Dividends)
Art. 36 By resolution of the Board ofDirectors, the Company may pay
interim dividends to the shareholders
or registered pledgees whose names
are [stated or]* recorded in theRegister of Shareholders as of the30th day of September each year.

(Interim Dividends)
Art. 35 By resolution of the Board ofDirectors, the Company may pay
interim dividends to the shareholders
or registered pledgees whose names
are recorded in the Register ofShareholders as of the 30th day of
September each year.

(New provisions)

Supplementary Provisions
The preparation and keeping of theArt. 1
Register of Cancellation of Share
Certificates of the Company and othermatters relating to the Register ofCancellation of Share Certificatesshall be entrusted to the custodian of
the Register of Shareholders and nothandled by the Company.

Art. 2The preceding provision and thisprovision shall be effective untilJanuary 5, 2010 and be removed on
January 6, 2010.

[*Translation note: The Company has translated the original Japanese phrase kisai matawa kiroku (literallymeaning “stated or recorded”) in the Articles of Incorporation as “recorded.” The present proposal is toremove kisai matawa (“stated or”) from the original text.]
Proposal 3 for the amendments to the Articles of Incorporation
Current provisions(Total Number of Issuable Shares)
The total number of shares issuable
Art. 6by the Company shall be one billion
two hundred million (1,200,000,000)
shares.

(Amended part is underlined.)
Proposed provisions(Total Number of Issuable Shares)
The total number of shares issuable
Art. 6by the Company shall be one billion
eight hundred million (1,800,000,000)
shares