Disclaimer: Please note that the following is a translation of the original Japanese documents prepared for the convenience of our non-Japanese shareholders with voting rights. Although this translation is intended to be complete and accurate, the Japanese original shall take precedence in the case of any discrepancies between this translation and the original. Certain information regarding voting procedures that is not applicable for shareholders resident outside Japan has been omitted or modified as applicable. In addition, these materials will not facilitate your status as a registered shareholder authorized to attend the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. Every shareholder attending the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders is required to present the voting card, which is sent to the registered shareholder together with the original Notice of Convocation in Japanese, to the receptionist at the meeting.
Securities Code: 9765
August 2, 2024
To Our Shareholders:
Shigeru Tsujimoto
Representative Director, President
OHBA CO., LTD.
3-7-1 Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Notice of the 90th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders
We are pleased to announce the 90th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of OHBA CO., LTD. (the "Company"), which will be held as indicated below.
In convening this General Meeting of Shareholders, the Company has taken measures for electronic provision of information, which is the contents of the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders, etc. (items for which measures for providing information in electronic format are to be taken), which can be found in the "4. Websites where items subject to measures for electronic provision are posted." Please access the website to view the information.
If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, you may exercise your voting rights via the Internet or in writing, and we ask that you exercise your voting rights by either of these methods. The contents of each proposal are set forth in the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders, which can be found in "4. Websites where items subject to measures for electronic provision are posted." Please review the said document and exercise your voting rights by 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 22, 2024 (JST) in accordance with the instructions.
- Date and time: Friday, August 23, 2024, at 10 a.m. (JST) (Doors open at 9 a.m.)
- Venue: Kokusai Kaigijo, 2F, Keidanren Kaikan
1-3-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
3. Purpose of the Meeting Matters to be reported
- The contents of the Business Report and the Consolidated Financial Statements for the 90th fiscal year (from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024), and the results of audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements by the Financial Auditor and the Audit & Supervisory Board
- The contents of the Non-consolidated Financial Statements for the 90th fiscal year (from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024)
Matters to be resolved
Proposal No. 1: Appropriation of Surplus
Proposal No. 2: Election of Nine (9) Directors
Proposal No. 3: Election of Two (2) Substitute Audit & Supervisory Board Members
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4. Websites where items subject to measures for electronic provision are posted
Item | Website name and URL | How to access |
No. | ||
1 | The Company's website: | Please refer to "Materials |
http://www.k-ohba.co.jp/ (in Japanese) | Related to the General Meeting | |
of Shareholders" in Investor | ||
Relations. | ||
2 | Listed Company Search (Tokyo Stock Exchange): | Enter and search for the issue |
https://www2.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/JJK010010Action.do?Show=Show | name (company name) or | |
(in Japanese) | securities code, and then select | |
"Basic Information" and | ||
"Documents for Public | ||
Inspection/PR Information." | ||
3 | General Shareholders Meeting Portal Site® (Sumitomo Mitsui Trust | Please read the QR code on the |
Bank, Limited) | voting card or enter your ID and | |
https://www.soukai-portal.net (in Japanese) | password. |
- Each website may be temporarily inaccessible due to scheduled maintenance or other reasons.
If you are unable to view the site, please check from another website or access it again after some time.
5. Matters to be decided for convocation
(1) In accordance with laws and regulations and Article 17 of the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, the Company has posted the following matters, which should be stated in the document stating the items subject to measures for electronic provision, on the "4. Websites where items subject to measures for electronic provision are posted." Therefore, they are not included in the document to be delivered to shareholders who have requested delivery of the paper-based document. Accordingly, the documents that are delivered to shareholders who have made a request for delivery of paper-based documents are part of the documents included in the scope of audits by the Audit & Supervisory Board Members and the Financial Auditor when
they create the audit report and independent auditor's report.
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The following items from the Business Report
(Status of Share acquisition rights, etc. and Overview of Systems to ensure the appropriateness of operations and the operation of such systems)
(ⅱ) The following items from the Consolidated Financial Statements
(Consolidated Statements of Changes in Net Assets, Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements) (ⅲ) The following items from the financial statements
(Statements of Changes in Net Assets, Notes to Non-Consolidated Financial Statements)
- If you exercise your voting rights more than once, the last exercise that arrives at the Company will be treated as a valid exercise of your voting rights. If the voting rights exercised via the Internet and the voting card arrive on the same day, the vote exercised via the Internet will be treated as a valid exercise of voting rights.
- If no indication of approval or disapproval is made for each proposal by the method of the voting card, it will be treated as an indication of approval.
- When you attend the Meeting, you are kindly requested to present the voting card to the receptionist at the meeting.
- If revisions to the items subject to measures for electronic provision arise, a notice of the revisions and the details of the matters before and after the revisions will be posted on the aforementioned websites "4. Websites where items subject to measures for electronic provision are posted."
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Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders
Proposals and Reference Information
Proposal No. 1 Appropriation of Surplus
The Company proposes the appropriation of surplus as follows:
The Company deems the optimal balance between enhancing corporate value over the medium and long term and returns to shareholders to be one of the most important issues facing management. In addition to using the dividend payout ratio as a guideline in order to strengthen the link between dividends and performance, the Company determines the details of returns to shareholders for each fiscal year by taking into account a comprehensive range of factors, such as the economic situation and financial position at the time, as well as the outlook for earnings.
Based on this approach, the Company has given consideration to matters including the business performance of the fiscal year and future business development, and it proposes to pay year-end ordinary dividends of ¥20 per share for the 90th fiscal year. Accordingly, including the interim dividend of ¥17 per share, the annual dividend will be ¥37 per share.
Year-end dividends
- Type of dividend property To be paid in cash.
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Allotment of dividend property and their aggregate amount
The Company proposes to pay a dividend of ¥20 per common share of the Company. In this event, the total dividends will be ¥319,867,660. - Effective date of dividends of surplus
The effective date of dividends will be Monday, August 26, 2024.
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Proposal No. 2 Election of Nine (9) Directors
At the conclusion of this meeting, the terms of office of all nine (9) Directors will expire. Therefore, the Company proposes the election of nine (9) Directors.
The candidates for Director are as follows:
Candidate | Name | Current position and responsibility in the Company | |
No. | |||
1 | Re-election | Shigeru Tsujimoto | Representative Director, President |
2 | Re-election | Toshinori Ohba | Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer |
Assistant to the President, Head of Sales | |||
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer | |||
3 | Re-election | Naohiko Hanabusa | Head of Engineering, in charge of Internal Control and |
Compliance | |||
Re-election | |||
4 | Outside | Motoyasu Kato | Director |
Independent | |||
Re-election | |||
5 | Outside | Mikito Nagai | Director |
Independent | |||
Re-election | |||
6 | Outside | Yuji Shimanaka | Director |
Independent | |||
7 | New election | Shinsuke Minaki | Managing Executive Officer |
Branch Manager of Tokyo branch | |||
New election | |||
8 | Outside | Masaki Suzuki | - |
Independent | |||
New election | |||
9 | Outside | Akiko Uno | - |
Independent |
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Candidate | Name | Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company, | Number of the | |
significant concurrent positions outside the Company, and | Company's shares | |||
No. | (Date of birth) | |||
reasons for nomination | owned | |||
Apr. 1979 | Joined Overseas Oil Development Co., Ltd. | |||
Nov. 1987 | Joined The Mitsui Trust and Banking Company, | |||
Limited (currently, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust | ||||
Bank, Limited) | ||||
Feb. 1990 | Los Angeles branch | |||
Oct. 1994 | New York branch | |||
Oct. 2000 | Deputy General Manager of Sales Dept. I of | |||
Osaka branch | ||||
Mar. 2003 | Senior Advisor of the Company | |||
Shigeru Tsujimoto | July 2005 | Executive Officer, General Manager of | ||
Financial Dept., and General Manager of | ||||
December 10, 1955 | 279,539 | |||
Project Development Dept. | ||||
Re-election | June 2006 | Director, Executive Officer, General Manager | ||
of Financial Dept., and General Manager of | ||||
1 | ||||
Project Development Dept. | ||||
June 2010 | Managing Director, Managing Executive | |||
Officer, in charge of Finance, Planning and | ||||
Business Solution, and General Manager of | ||||
Sales Division | ||||
Aug. 2013 | Representative Director | |||
June 2016 | Representative Director, President, and CEO | |||
Aug. 2020 | Representative Director, President (current | |||
position) | ||||
Reasons for nomination | ||||
Shigeru Tsujimoto, currently serves as Representative Director, President, leads the Company's Group management, | ||||
and has played an appropriate role in enhancing corporate values, such as in determining important matters. Since it is | ||||
expected that he can further contribute to the Company in the future, he has been nominated again as a candidate for | ||||
Director. |
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Candidate | Name | Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company, | Number of the | |
significant concurrent positions outside the Company, and | Company's shares | |||
No. | (Date of birth) | |||
reasons for nomination | owned | |||
Apr. 1996 | Joined the Company, Sales Department of | |||
Nagoya branch | ||||
June 2008 | Seconded to Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. | |||
Apr. 2013 | General Manager in charge of Sales Division | |||
and General Manager in charge of Business | ||||
Department of Business Solution Division of | ||||
the Company | ||||
June 2015 | General Manager of Planning Department of | |||
Planning Division | ||||
June 2017 | Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of | |||
Sales Division | ||||
Dec. 2017 | Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of | |||
Sales Division, and General Manager of | ||||
Strategic Sales Department | ||||
June 2018 | Senior Executive Officer, Deputy General | |||
Toshinori Ohba | Manager of Sales Division, and General | |||
February 28, 1973 | Manager of Strategic Sales Department | 21,200 | ||
June 2019 | Senior Executive Officer, Deputy General | |||
Re-election | ||||
2 | Manager of Sales Division, and General | |||
Manager of New Business Promotion Office | ||||
Dec. 2019 | Senior Executive Officer, General Manager of | |||
Planning Division | ||||
Aug. 2020 | Director, Executive Officer, General Manager | |||
of Planning Division, in charge of Personnel, | ||||
General Affairs and IT | ||||
June 2021 | Managing Director, Executive Officer, General | |||
Manager of Planning Division, in charge of | ||||
Personnel, General Affairs and IT | ||||
June 2022 | Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, | |||
General Manager of Planning Division, in | ||||
charge of Personnel, General Affairs and IT | ||||
June 2023 | Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, | |||
Assistant to the President, Head of Sales | ||||
(current position) |
Reasons for nomination
Toshinori Ohba, currently serves as Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, is in charge of business planning, profit and loss management, etc., and has played an appropriate role to contribute to the enhancement of the Company's corporate value by determining important management matters, supervising business execution, etc. Since it is expected that he can further contribute to the Company in the future, he has been nominated again as a candidate for Director.
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Candidate | Name | Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company, | Number of the | |
significant concurrent positions outside the Company, and | Company's shares | |||
No. | (Date of birth) | |||
reasons for nomination | owned | |||
Apr. 1984 | Joined Ministry of Construction (currently, | |||
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and | ||||
Tourism) | ||||
Sept. 1998 | Assistant Director, City Planning Division, City | |||
Bureau | ||||
July 2000 | Manager, Tokyo Planning and Development | |||
Department, Corporate Planning Division of | ||||
Central Japan Railway Company | ||||
July 2004 | Senior Deputy Director, Street Division, City | |||
and Regional Development Bureau of Ministry | ||||
of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | ||||
Apr. 2007 | Deputy Mayor of Gifu City | |||
Apr. 2010 | Director for Street Project Coordination, Urban | |||
Transport Facilities Division, City and Regional | ||||
Naohiko Hanabusa | Development Bureau of Ministry of Land, | |||
April 9, 1961 | Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | 2,400 | ||
Apr. 2011 | Director of Urban Renovation Promotion | |||
Re-election | ||||
Office, Community Development Promotion | ||||
Division, City and Regional Development | ||||
Bureau | ||||
3 | Apr. 2013 | Deputy Mayor of Nakano City | ||
July 2015 | Director, Urban Development and Improvement | |||
Division, City Bureau of Ministry of Land, | ||||
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism | ||||
July 2017 | General Manager of Urban Renaissance | |||
Agency | ||||
July 2019 | Director-General, Miyagi Reconstruction | |||
Bureau of Reconstruction Agency | ||||
Oct. 2021 | Special Advisor of the Company | |||
Aug. 2022 | Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer, | |||
Head of Engineering, in charge of Internal | ||||
Control and Compliance (current position) |
Reasons for nomination
Since joining the Ministry of Construction in April 1984, Naohiko Hanabusa has worked for the national government, and national agencies, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; Reconstruction Agency; and Urban Renaissance Agency; as well as many local public organizations. He has held key positions in the areas of urban planning, urban development, urban transportation, and public-private partnerships, which are important elements of urban development.
He also has front-line urban development experience in both regional and metropolitan areas in local governments, including serving as Deputy Mayor of Gifu City and Deputy Mayor of Nakano City.
Based on his diverse experience and high-level insight as an expert in urban development, he has contributed to the Company's management and is expected to make further contributions in the future, and therefore, he has been nominated again as a candidate for Director.
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Candidate | Name | Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company, | Number of the | |
significant concurrent positions outside the Company, and | Company's shares | |||
No. | (Date of birth) | |||
reasons for nomination | owned | |||
Apr. 1988 | Joined Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. | |||
Apr. 2014 | General Manager of Kashiwanoha Urban | |||
Planning and Development Department | ||||
Apr. 2018 | Managing Officer, General Manager of | |||
Kashiwanoha Urban Planning and | ||||
Development Department | ||||
Apr. 2019 | Managing Officer, General Manager of | |||
Development Planning Department and General | ||||
Motoyasu Kato | Manager of Toyosu-Project Development | |||
November 8, 1964 | Planning Department | |||
Re-election | Aug. 2019 | Outside Director of the Company (current | 0 | |
position) | ||||
Outside | Apr. 2022 | Executive Managing Officer, General Manager | ||
4 | Independent | of Development Planning Department and | ||
General Manager of Toyosu-Project | ||||
Development Planning Department of Mitsui | ||||
Fudosan Co., Ltd. | ||||
Oct. 2023 | Executive Managing Officer, General Manager | |||
of Development Planning Department (I) and | ||||
General Manager of Toyosu-Project | ||||
Development Planning Department (current | ||||
position) | ||||
Reasons for nomination and outline of expected role | ||||
As an outside Director of the Company, Motoyasu Kato is currently leveraging his extensive experience in and wide- | ||||
ranging knowledge of private-sector companies to appropriately fulfill his role by providing various kinds of advice to | ||||
the Company's management. Because it is expected that he can further contribute to the Company in future, he has been | ||||
nominated again as a candidate for outside Director. |
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Candidate | Name | Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company, | Number of the | |
significant concurrent positions outside the Company, and | Company's shares | |||
No. | (Date of birth) | |||
reasons for nomination | owned | |||
Apr. 1978 | Joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited | |||
Apr. 2003 | General Manager of Sales Department No. 2, | |||
Head Office of Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. | ||||
June 2004 | General Manager of Sales Department No. 9 | |||
Apr. 2005 | Executive Officer, General Manager of Sales | |||
Department No. 9 | ||||
Apr. 2007 | Managing Director, Head of Corporate Banking | |||
Unit | ||||
Apr. 2009 | Managing Executive Officer, Head of | |||
Corporate Banking Unit | ||||
Apr. 2011 | Director, Deputy President | |||
May 2013 | Executive Vice President of Nippon Steel Kowa | |||
Mikito Nagai | Real Estate Co., Ltd. | |||
October 28, 1955 | June 2013 | Executive Vice President | ||
Re-election | June 2014 | President and CEO | 0 | |
Apr. 2019 | Director and Advisor of Nippon Steel Kowa | |||
Outside | Real Estate Co., Ltd. | |||
5 | Independent | June 2019 | Advisor | |
Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory | ||||
Committee Member) of OKASAN | ||||
SECURITIES GROUP INC. | ||||
June 2020 | Outside Board Member of Nippon Suisan | |||
Kaisha Ltd. (currently, Nissui Corporation) | ||||
June 2021 | Outside Director of Tohoku Electric Power Co., | |||
Inc. (current position) | ||||
Aug. 2021 | Outside Director of the Company (current | |||
position) | ||||
July 2024 | Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory | |||
Committee Member) of Okasan Securities Co., | ||||
Ltd. (current position) | ||||
Reasons for nomination and outline of expected role | ||||
Mikito Nagai has extensive experience as a corporate manager at a financial institution, etc. and a deep insight into | ||||
corporate management. Currently, as an outside Director of the Company, he is appropriately fulfilling his role of | ||||
strengthening the oversight function of the Board of Directors and ensuring greater transparency, and because it is | ||||
expected that he can further contribute to the Company in future, he has been nominated again as a candidate for | ||||
outside Director. |
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Candidate | Name | Career summary, position, responsibility in the Company, | Number of the | |
significant concurrent positions outside the Company, and | Company's shares | |||
No. | (Date of birth) | |||
reasons for nomination | owned | |||
Apr. 1978 | Joined The Sanwa Bank, Limited | |||
Oct. 1984 | Joined Japan Center for Economic Research, | |||
Researcher | ||||
Apr. 1989 | Joined Sanwa Research Institute Corp., Senior | |||
Researcher | ||||
July 1997 | Principal Researcher | |||
Apr. 2000 | General Manager of Investment Research | |||
Department and Principal Researcher | ||||
Apr. 2002 | General Manager of Investment Research | |||
Department and Principal Researcher of UFJ | ||||
Institute, Ltd. | ||||
Jan. 2006 | General Manager of Investment Research | |||
Department and Principal Researcher of | ||||
Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., | ||||
Ltd. | ||||
Yuji Shimanaka | Apr. 2007 | Councilor, Chief Economist of Business Cycle | ||
November 29, 1955 | Research of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd. | |||
Re-election | (currently, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings | 0 | ||
Co., Ltd.) | ||||
Outside | May 2010 | Councilor, Chief Economist of Business Cycle | ||
Independent | Research of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley | |||
6 | Securities Co., Ltd. | |||
Member, Committee for Business Cycle | ||||
Indicators, Economic and Social Research | ||||
Institute of the Cabinet Office (current position) | ||||
Vice President of The Japan Association of | ||||
Business Cycle studies (current position) | ||||
Trustee, Kashiyama Scholarship Foundation | ||||
(current position) | ||||
Aug. 2022 | Outside Director of the Company (current | |||
position) | ||||
Sept. 2022 | Professor, Faculty of Business Administration | |||
of Hakuoh University (current position) | ||||
Mar. 2023 | Special Advisor, Executive Economist of | |||
Global Research Center of Okasan Securities | ||||
Co., Ltd. (current position) | ||||
Reasons for nomination and outline of expected role | ||||
Yuji Shimanaka has extensive experience and knowledge based on the outcomes of his research activities at a bank- | ||||
related think tank and in the research department of a securities company. In addition, based on his scholarship, in | ||||
which he also serves as a university professor, and his insights as a member of the Cabinet Office's Committee for | ||||
Business Cycle Indicators, which sets the official peaks and troughs of the business cycle, currently, as an outside | ||||
Director of the Company, he is appropriately fulfilling his role of making various proposals to the Company's | ||||
management, and because it is expected that he can further contribute to the Company in future, he has been nominated | ||||
again as a candidate for outside Director. |
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