Strengthening Internal Controls over Financial Reporting in Response to Errors in Retirement Benefit Accounting

「To ensure the reliability of financial reporting, we are strengthening internal controls over the closing and financial reporting processes by further enhancing the specialized knowledge of the accounting department and rebuilding the framework for checking recorded amounts for significant accounts. We are also developing and implementing measures to prevent recurrence, centered on (1) redeveloping the closing package for retirement benefit accounting and (2) establishing a secondary review framework.」