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01/25/02

Acquisition of self-stocks


We hereby notify whom it may concern that it was decided to acquire the company's shares by applying Paragraph 4, Clause 3 of the law regarding partial amendments to business methods (Law No.79, 2001) in accordance with Clause 3 of the Exemption Law for Consumption of Old Shares.

At this time, we also announce that the acquisition of stocks based on the board of directors' resolution on 12/27/01 was completed.



1.Reason for the acquisition of the company's shares
The acquisition of the company's shares is executed in order to correct properly the supply-demand relationship for the company's stocks in the market.



2.Authorization situation in the board of directors
The kind of stocks to acquire Face-value common stock
The total of the stocks to acquire 1,200,000 stocks
(maximum)
The total of a stock acquisition price 1,200,000,000 yen
(maximum)

(Reference )
The total of the stocks which are set to articles of
association and which can be bought and effaced:
3 million stocks

Day which carried out the law on articles of association : 04/25/01
Henceforth Total of the acquired stocks:
The number of purchase stocks

1,020,500 stocks

The total purchase amount

1,139,418,800 yen