1)	To assist in the maintenance, improvement and promotion of compliance-based management by the Company and its domestic and overseas group companies;

2)	To investigate and audit the compliance situation at our Company and its domestic and overseas group members, and advise on improvement of the situation if necessary;

3)	To immediately investigate a situation of noncompliance when a report is received under the Speak Up System, prepare plans for rectifying the situation and preventing its recurrence, submit the plans to the President, and upon approval, advise the relevant departments of necessary countermeasures;

4)	To implement necessary measures, including education and awareness-raising activities, in order to expand the understanding of compliance-based management thoroughout the organization.

1)

You are obligated to report to your superior or the Speak Up Desk if you come to know that an infringement of any of the laws, regulations, company rules or ethics (referred to hereafter as "noncompliance") has taken place, or is likely to take place, in our Company, whether in the department where you work or in other departments. If an act of noncompliance takes place in your own department, you are basically required to report it to your superior in accordance with the normal reporting process. If a problem cannot be, or is not likely to be, immediately or effectively resolved through the normal reporting process, however, you are urged to report the matter to the Speak Up Desk hotline under the Speak Up System.

2)	In addition to directors and employees, their family members or any other persons involved in our business activities, including those working for our Company's group companies or trading partners, may report cases of noncompliance to the Speak Up Desk.

3)

To enable the Compliance Committee to conduct an investigation, informants must provide the Committee with sufficient information. When an informant provides information in writing, including by letter, e-mail or fax, the informant is required to use the prescribed written form. The form appears in the "Form and Contacts for Reporting" section of this site. You can download this form via the intranet/internet. Informants are required to use the form and complete all necessary items. If e-mail is used, the proper form with all necessary items completed should be attached to the e-mail message.

4)

As the speak Up Desk, two hotlines---the "Compliance Committee Hotline" and the "External Lawyer Hotline"---have been established as described below. An informant may contact either of these two hotlines. To enable a prompt and effective response, an informant is, in principle, required to report to the hotline indicating his or her name. However, an informant may provide information anonymously. It should be noted, however, that if anonymous information is provided, it may be difficult to fully investigate the case, which may make it impossible to undertake the necessary response, including an appropriate investigation. The contacts for these hotlines are indicated in the section on "Form and Contacts for Reporting". (1) Compliance Committee Hotline The information provided to this hotline will be immediately reported to the Compliance Committee Chairman. If instructed by the Chairman, an investigation will be implemented at once to ascertain all the facts. If it is determined that the information is accurate and an act of noncompliance has taken place, the Chairman will convene the Committee to decide on an appropriate response. If the information was provided by an informant giving his or her name, the results of the investigation and the response to the reported situation will be communicated to the informant. This hotline has two desks, a general desk and individual desks dealing with specific noncompliance subjects. Informants may provide information to either of these two desks. (2) External Lawyer Hotline Informants may provide information to the external lawyers designated by the Compliance Committee. Informants are required to provide information to the external lawyer in writing (including by letter, e-mail or fax) using the prescribed form so that the information can be conveyed accurately and without fail to the external lawyer. The contents of the information provided to the external lawyer will be immediately reported to the Chairman of the Compliance Committee . If so desired by the informant, the name of the informant will not be identified in the report made by the external lawyer to the Company. After receiving the report from the external lawyer, an investigation will be conducted, by the instruction of the Chairman, to ascertain the facts of the situation. If it is determined that the information provided is accurate and an act of noncompliance has taken place, the Chairman will convene the Committee to decide on an appropriate response. The Compliance Committee will inform the external lawyer of the result of the investigation and the Company's response, and the external lawyer will transfer this information to the informant. As mentioned above, the role of the external lawyer as a reporting hotline is limited to the transfer to our Company of the information provided by an informant, and the transfer to the informant of information concerning an investigation undertaken by our Company. This is because the external lawyer is not authorized to act as an intermediary in negotiations between an informant and our Company, to convey to our Company the demands of an informant relating to his or her personal interests, or to communicate to the informant the reaction from our Company to such demands.

5)	The Compliance Committee gives the utmost importance to the protection of informants' privacy, and keeps in confidence the fact of the reporting itself as well as the contents of a report to anybody other than those engaged in the investigation.

6)

If an informant is a director or an employee of our Company, our Company will not resort to unfair treatment, such as discharge, transfer or discrimination, on the grounds that the person concerned acted as an informant. If an informant is a director or an employee of a group company, our Company will direct the group company not to treat the informant to his or her disadvantage. If an informant is a director or an employee of one of our Company's trading partners, our Company will not treat the business partner to its disadvantage for the reason that it employs an informant. The foregoing does not apply, however, if an informant intentionally provides false information with the aim of damaging other persons, or if an informant commits an illegal act by threatening or blackmailing. If the informant is himself or herself involved in the case of noncompliance, our Company will not hold the informant immune from the consequences of such noncompliance.