Partner Strategy to Achieve GLOBAL 2020 VISION

「Following efforts to achieve the GLOBAL 2020 VISION formulated in 2011 and the resulting relative increase in depreciable tangible fixed assets accounted for under the straight-line method at overseas consolidated subsidiaries, the Company reconsidered its depreciation method for tangible fixed assets from the perspectives of standardizing the Group’s accounting policies and achieving more appropriate periodic profit and loss accounting.」