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E. Dilution
Not Applicable
F. Expenses of the Issue
Not Applicable
Item 10. Additional Information
A. Share Capital
Not Applicable
B. Memorandum and Articles of Association
Organization
Sony Corporation is a joint stock corporation (Kabushiki Kaisha) incorporated in Japan under the
Companies Act (Kaishaho) of Japan. It is registered in the Commercial Register (Shogyo Tokibo) maintained by
the Minato Branch Office of the Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau.
Objects and purposes
The Articles of Incorporation of Sony Corporation provide that its purpose is to engage in the following
business activities:
(i) manufacture and sale of electronic and electrical machines and equipment, medical instruments,
optical instruments and other equipment, machines and instruments;
(ii) planning, production and sale of audio-visual software and computer software programs;
(iii) manufacture and sale of metal industrial products, chemical industrial products and ceramic industrial
products, textile products, paper products and wood-crafted articles, daily necessities, foodstuffs and
toys, transportation machines and equipment, and petroleum and coal products;
(iv) real estate activities, construction business, transportation business and warehousing business;
(v) publishing business and printing business;
(vi) advertising agency business, insurance agency business, broadcasting enterprise, recreation business
such as travel, management of sporting facilities, etc. and other service enterprises;
(vii) financial business;
(viii) Type I and Type II telecommunications business under the Telecommunications Business Law;
(ix) investing in stocks and bonds, etc.;
(x) manufacture, sale, export and import of products which are incidental to or related to those mentioned
above;
(xi) rendering of services related to those mentioned above;
(xii) investment in businesses mentioned above operated by other companies or persons; and
(xiii) all businesses which are incidental to or related to those mentioned above.
Directors
Under the Companies Act, because Sony Corporation has adopted the “Company with Three Committees”
system, Directors have no power to execute the business of Sony Corporation except in limited circumstances as
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