Please note that the following is an unofficial English translation of Japanese original text of Notice of Convocation of the 112th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. The Company provides this translation for reference and convenience purposes only, without any warranty as to its accuracy or otherwise. In the event of any discrepancy between this translation and the Japanese original, the latter shall prevail.
Securities Code: 5901
May 30, 2025
To Our Shareholders:Ichio Otsuka President
Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.
2-18-1 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Convocation of the 112th Ordinary General Meeting of ShareholdersWe are pleased to announce that the 112th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. will take place on June 20, 2025, as described below.
We have posted the content of the reference documents and related materials for the shareholders meeting on the following websites, in accordance with the legal provisions concerning electronic provision of materials for general meetings of shareholders.
[Official website of Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.] https://www.tskg-hd.com/en/ir/stocks/meeting/
[Tokyo Stock Exchange’s “Listed Company Search”]* https://www2.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/JJK020010Action.do?Show=Show
* Access the Listed Company Search of the Tokyo Stock Exchange through the link above, enter the company name (“Toyo Seikan Group Holdings”) or security code (“5901”) and click “Search” to find the company’s page. Then, select “Basic information” and, on the following page, select the tab named “Documents for public inspection/PR information” and click the button to access “Notice of General Shareholders Meeting /Informational Materials for a General Shareholders Meeting.”
If you are unable to attend the shareholders meeting, please review the reference documents and exercise your voting rights, electronically or in writing (by mail), by 5:15 p.m., Thursday, June 19, 2025, Japan time.
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Time and date: 10:00 a.m., Friday, June 20, 2025
Place: 2F Meeting Room, Osaki Forest Building, 2-18-1 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Agenda items
Items to be reported:
Business report and consolidated financial statements for the 112th term (from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025) and results of audit of the consolidated financial statements by the Accounting Auditor and the Audit and Supervisory Board
Non-consolidated financial statements for the 112th term (from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025)
Items to be resolved:
Proposal 1: Appropriation of surplus Proposal 2: Election of nine (9) Directors
Important matters related to voting
If you exercise your voting rights in writing (by mail) and if there is no indication of approval or disapproval on any agenda item on the voting form, you will be deemed to have expressed your approval on such agenda item.
If you vote multiple times by electronic means (the Internet, etc.), the most recent vote will be deemed valid.
If you vote both by electronic means (the Internet, etc.) and in writing (by mail), the vote exercised by electronic means (the Internet, etc.) will be deemed valid, regardless of the time or date of arrival of the votes.
If you intend to vote by proxy, one other shareholder with voting rights may attend the shareholders meeting as your proxy. Please note, however, that such shareholder will be required to submit a written authority to act as proxy.
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* Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. is referred to as the “Company” and the Toyo Seikan Group, which consists of the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates, is referred to as the “Group” in this document.
Contents:
Reference Documents for the 112th General Meeting of Shareholders 4
Proposal 1: Appropriation of surplus 4
Proposal 2: Election of nine (9) Directors 5
The 112th Term Business Report 16
Consolidated Financial Statements 50
Non-Consolidated Financial Statements 68
Reference Documents for the 112th General Meeting of ShareholdersProposal 1: Appropriation of surplusWe submit the following proposal for the appropriation of surplus.
Matters concerning the year-end dividend
Rewarding shareholders is one of our most important management issues. Following our basic dividend policy of ensuring stable and constant payment, we will distribute dividends for the five years from fiscal 2021 to 2025 in accordance with the following criteria stated in our Mid-Term Management Plan 2025: i) we aim for a payout ratio of 50 percent or higher on a consolidated basis, and ii) we set a minimum annual dividend of 46 yen per share and will gradually increase the amount.
Based on the above-mentioned policy, we have decided to distribute the year-end dividend for the year under review as follows:
Type of dividend property: Cash
Allotment of dividend property to shareholders and its total amount
Year-end dividend for the Company’s common shares: 46 yen per share Total amount of payout: 7,340,635,518 yen
As the Company has already paid an interim dividend of 45 yen per share, the aggregate amount of annual dividend for the year under review will be 91 yen per share.
Effective date of the distribution of surplus: June 23, 2025
Shareholder return policy of the Mid-Term Management Plan 2025We will distribute profit to our shareholders with a target total return ratio of 80 percent during the period of the Mid-Term Management Plan 2025.
Dividend
We aim for a payout ratio of 50 percent or higher on a consolidated basis. We set a minimum annual dividend of 46 yen per share and will gradually increase the amount.
Share repurchase
We will implement share repurchase in an agile manner.
Note: The extraordinary income and losses arising from the disposal of assets are not taken into account, in principle, when we calculate the total return ratio and the consolidated payout ratio.
Matters concerning the appropriation of surplus
We ask our shareholders to approve a partial reversal of general reserve in order to allow for various measures to implement our capital strategy, including the stable and constant payment of dividends and the cancellation of treasury shares.
Item and amount of surplus to decrease
General reserve: 30,000,000,000 yen
Item and amount of surplus to increase
Retained earnings brought forward: 30,000,000,000 yen
Proposal 2: Election of nine (9) DirectorsThe term of office of the nine existing directors of the board, including four outside directors, will expire at the close of the 112th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders. We thus ask our shareholders to approve the appointment of nine new directors, including four outside directors, as listed below:
Candidates for Directors of the Company
No. | Name | Current position and responsibilities at the Company | Board meeting attendance during the 112th term | Period in office (years) | |
1 | Ichio Otsuka | President and Representative Director; Chairman of Group Sustainability Committee; Chairman of Group Risk and Compliance Committee | Reelection | 15 out of 15 times (100.0%) | 7 |
2 | Masakazu Soejima | Director and Senior Executive Officer; Chief Financial Officer; Head of Corporate Strategy; Investor Relations and Procurement Strategy | Reelection | 15 out of 15 times (100.0%) | 8 |
3 | Takuji Nakamura | Director and Senior Executive Officer; Chief Technology Officer; Head of Technical Development; Innovation Promotion and Marketing | Reelection | 15 out of 15 times (100.0%) | 5 |
4 | Kazuo Murohashi | Director and Executive Officer; Human Resources, HR Development, Sustainability and Risk & Compliance | Reelection | 15 out of 15 times (100.0%) | 8 |
5 | Kouki Ogasawara | Director and Executive Officer; General Affairs, Legal Affairs, IT and Information Management | Reelection | 15 out of 15 times (100.0%) | 7 |
6 | Mami Taniguchi | Director | Reelection Outside Independent | 15 out of 15 times (100.0%) | 6 |
7 | Kenzo Oguro | Director | Reelection Outside Independent | 15 out of 15 times (100.0%) | 2 |
8 | Mizuho Taneoka | Director | Reelection Outside Independent | 10 out of 10 times (100.0%) | 1 |
9 | Yoshihiro Ikegawa | Director | Reelection Outside Independent | 10 out of 10 times (100.0%) | 1 |
Note: 1. As Mizuho Taneoka and Yoshihiro Ikegawa assumed office as Director at the 111th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 21, 2024, the total number of the Board of Directors meetings they could attend was ten (10).
“Independent” marked in the above table means that the relevant candidate is independent from the Company on the basis of both the independent criteria of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and those of the Company.
The Company has registered Mami Taniguchi, Kenzo Oguro, Mizuho Taneoka and Yoshihiro Ikegawa as Independent Directors with the TSE under the TSE’s independent criteria.
