General Information

ListedOctober 26,1995
Securities Traded
(Common Stock)		Tokyo Stock Exchange First Market
Ticker Code9783
Unit of Trading100 shares
Independent AuditorsDeloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
Transfer AgentMitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation

Ownership

Number of Shares Outstanding 102,453,453 shares
Number of Shareholders 35,655
Shares' % by Shareholders Type
Financial Institutions

30.15%

Financial Instruments Firms

0.56%

Other Corporations

10.39%

Foreign Companies-Other

32.94%

Individuals and Other

19.85%

Treasury Stock

6.11%

Shareholders' % by Registered Location
Hokkaido Area

1.18%

Tohoku Area

1.82%

Kanto Area

41.37%

Chubu Area

13.75%

Kinki Area

20.32%

Chugoku Area

14.07%

Shikoku Area

2.65%

Kyushu Area

3.58%

Overseas

1.26%
Top 10 ShareholdersInvestment RatioNumber of Shares Held
(Thousand shares)
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd.

16.45%

15,824
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd.

7.04%

6,777
Fukutake Foundation

5.20%

5,008
JP Morgan Chase Oppenheimer JASDEC Lending Account

3.02%

2,909
The Chugoku Bank, Ltd.

2.89%

2,787
Nobuko Fukutake

2.87%

2,769
State Street Bank and Trust Company

2.47%

2,382
Junko Fukutake

2.24%

2,155
Minamigata Holdings, Inc.

1.90%

1,836
Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (Retirement Benefit Trust Account, The Chugoku Bank, Ltd.)

1.66%

1,600
(Note) 1.The shares held by The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. include 13,618 thousand Company shares (a 14.15% investment ratio) contributed by efu Investment Limited as trust assets. efu Investment is an asset management and investment corporation owned fully by Soichiro Fukutake and Reiko Fukutake; the former serves as a representative. The instructor with respect to the execution of voting rights related to the consigned trust assets is efu Investment Limited. efu Investment Limited directly holds an additional 1,049 thousand shares (a 1.09% investment ratio).
2.The Company owns 6,263 thousand shares of treasury stock which are not included above because they do not carry voting rights. These shares of treasury stock are also excluded from the calculation of investment ratios.