Apr 1989 Joined the Company Apr 2013 Manager, Content Business Division, Tokyo Branch, the Company Jul 2016 General Manager, General Business Bureau, the Company; seconded as Representative Director, President, ABC Animation Co., Ltd. Oct 2019 Director, Content Development Office, the Company; Bureau Chief-level staff, Personnel Bureau, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation; seconded as Representative Director, President, ABC Animation Co., Ltd. Apr 2021 Executive Officer, the Company; Representative Director, Chairman, ABC Animation Co., Ltd. Apr 2024 Managing Executive Officer, the Company; Director, Chairman, ABC Animation Co., Ltd. Oct 2024 President and Executive Officer, the Company Apr 2025 Director, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (current) Jun 2025 Representative Director, President, the Company (current)

Apr 1985 Joined the Company Feb 2012 General Manager, Production Bureau, the Company Jan 2016 Bureau Chief-level staff, Personnel Bureau, the Company; on leave, ABC Libra Inc. Apr 2018 Officer-level treatment, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation; seconded as Representative Director, President, ABC Libra Inc. Apr 2019 Officer-level treatment, the Company; seconded as Representative Director, President, ABC Libra Inc. Apr 2020 Executive Officer, the Company Apr 2021 Director, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Apr 2024 Managing Executive Officer, the Company; Representative Director, President, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (current) Jun 2024 Director, Managing Executive Officer, the Company Jun 2025 Representative Director, Executive Vice President, the Company (current)

Apr 1979 Joined the Company Apr 2006 General Manager, Programming Bureau, the Company Apr 2010 General Manager, General Business Bureau, the Company Jun 2011 Director, in charge of General Business Bureau, the Company Apr 2014 Managing Director, the Company Apr 2018 Representative Director, Executive Vice President, the Company; Representative Director, President, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Jun 2020 Outside Director, TV Asahi Holdings Corporation; Director, TV Asahi Corporation (current) Jun 2021 Outside Director, Video Research Ltd. Apr 2024 Representative Director, Chairman, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (current) Oct 2024 Representative Director, the Company Jun 2025 Director, the Company (current); Outside Director, Video Research Ltd. (current)

Apr 1994 Joined Mitsubishi Corporation Jul 2003 Manager, Human Resources, Mitsubishi Corporation Korea Jul 2007 Manager, General Affairs Department, Mitsubishi Corporation Apr 2012 General Affairs Team Leader, General Affairs Department, Mitsubishi Corporation Aug 2014 Vice President, Head of Human Resources, Mitsubishi Corporation Americas Apr 2017 Head, Reconstruction Support Office, Mitsubishi Corporation Apr 2018 Representative Director, Mitsubishi Corporation Reconstruction Support Foundation Apr 2020 General Manager, International Development Office (in charge of Human Resources), and General Manager, General Affairs, Kansai Branch, Mitsubishi Corporation Apr 2021 General Manager, General Affairs Department (in charge of Board Affairs and Crisis Management Office), Mitsubishi Corporation Aug 2023 Joined the Company; General Manager, Human Resources Strategy, Group Strategy Bureau Apr 2024 Executive Officer, the Company Jun 2025 Director, Executive Officer, the Company (current)

Apr 1978 Joined Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. Jun 2009 Director, Managing Executive Officer, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. Apr 2013 Representative Director, Executive Vice President, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. Apr 2015 Representative Director, President, Chief Executive Officer, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. Jan 2021 Director, Chairman, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (current) Jun 2021 Director, the Company (current) Nov 2023 Vice Chairman, Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (current) Mar 2026 Outside Director, TOYO TIRE Corporation (current)

Apr 1972 Joined KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Dec 1977 Director, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Dec 1981 Managing Director, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Dec 1985 Senior Managing Director, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Dec 1987 Representative Director, Executive Vice President, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Aug 1989 Representative Director, President, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Mar 2011 Representative Director, President and Executive Officer, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. Mar 2015 Representative Director, Chairman, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. May 2017 Chairman, Kansai Economic Doyukai Jun 2018 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), the Company Mar 2020 Chairman (part-time), KOKUYO Co., Ltd. (current) Nov 2020 Vice Chairman, Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (current) Jun 2022 Director, the Company (current)

Nov 1989 Designated as successor to the Ikenobo school headmaster (iemoto) Jul 1995 Vice Abbot, Shiunzan Chohoji Temple (Rokkakudo) (current) Jan 2007 Vice Chairman, Japan Ikebana Art Association (current) Apr 2012 Vice Chairman, Ikenobo Kado Association (current) Oct 2019 Director, Expo 2025 Association Dec 2019 Director and Senior Advisor, Expo 2025 Association Apr 2021 Vice Chairman, Kyoto Economic Doyukai (current) Jun 2023 Director, the Company (current) Dec 2023 Vice Chairman, Director and Senior Advisor, Expo 2025 Association Jun 2025 Outside Director, Nichicon Corporation (current) Apr 2026 Vice Chairman and Director, Expo 2025 Association (current)

Apr 1986 Joined The Asahi Shimbun Company Jun 2013 General Manager, Advertising Bureau, Tokyo Head Office, The Asahi Shimbun Company Apr 2015 Public Editor, The Asahi Shimbun Company Jun 2016 General Editor and General Manager, Programming Bureau, Tokyo Head Office, The Asahi Shimbun Company Jun 2018 General Manager and General Manager, Editorial Bureau, Tokyo Head Office, The Asahi Shimbun Company Jun 2019 Executive Officer (in charge of Editorial), General Manager, and General Manager, Editorial Bureau, Tokyo Head Office, The Asahi Shimbun Company Jun 2020 Representative Director, Executive Vice President (in charge of Content, Digital Policy, and Vertical Media Business), The Asahi Shimbun Company; Outside Director, the Company Apr 2021 Representative Director, President, The Asahi Shimbun Company Jun 2021 Outside Director, TV Asahi Holdings Corporation (current); Director, TV Asahi Corporation (current) Jun 2023 Chairman, Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (current) Jun 2024 Representative Director, Chairman, The Asahi Shimbun Company (current) Jun 2025 Director, the Company (current)

Apr 1989 Joined Senkosha Inc. Oct 1997 Joined All-Nippon Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (now TV Asahi Holdings Corporation) Jul 2014 General Manager, General Programming Bureau, TV Asahi Corporation Jun 2019 Director, TV Asahi Holdings Corporation; Director, General Manager, General Programming Bureau, TV Asahi Corporation Jul 2020 Director, General Manager, Content Programming Bureau, TV Asahi Corporation Jun 2022 Director, TV Asahi Holdings Corporation; Managing Director, General Manager, Content Programming Bureau, TV Asahi Corporation Jul 2023 Managing Director, TV Asahi Corporation Jun 2025 Director, the Company (current); Executive Vice President, TV Asahi Holdings Corporation (current); Representative Director, President, TV Asahi Corporation (current)

Apr 1990 Joined the Company Jun 2016 General Manager, Rights Support, Rights Center, Editorial Bureau, the Company Jun 2017 General Manager, Rights Promotion, Rights Center, Editorial Bureau, the Company Nov 2020 General Manager, Rights Management, General Programming Bureau, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Apr 2023 General Manager, Legal and Compliance Bureau, the Company Apr 2025 Manager, Rights Management, General Programming Bureau, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Jun 2025 Auditor, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Jun 2026 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), the Company (current)

Apr 1975 Joined the Ministry of Finance Jul 2007 Director-General, Tax Bureau, Ministry of Finance Jul 2009 Commissioner, National Tax Agency Jul 2010 Retired as Commissioner, National Tax Agency Jan 2011 Senior Managing Director, Japan Securities Depository Center, Inc. (JASDEC) Jun 2011 Representative Director, President, JASDEC Jun 2013 Outside Director, Toyota Motor Corporation Mar 2014 Outside Director, Canon Inc. Jul 2015 Director and Representative Executive Officer, President, JASDEC Apr 2019 Director, JASDEC Jun 2019 Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Toyota Motor Corporation Jun 2023 Outside Director, Nichicon Corporation (current) Jun 2024 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), the Company (current) Jun 2025 Outside Director, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. (current)

Apr 1998 Lecturer, Faculty of Commerce, Kwansei Gakuin University Apr 2002 Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Kwansei Gakuin University Oct 2003 Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Business and Information Management, Australian National University Apr 2008 Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Kwansei Gakuin University (current) Aug 2016 Visiting Researcher, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine Apr 2017 Assistant to the President, Kwansei Gakuin University Nov 2022 Visiting Researcher, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University Apr 2023 Member, University Council, Kwansei Gakuin University Mar 2024 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Takenaka Corporation (current) Apr 2024 Dean, Faculty of Commerce, Kwansei Gakuin University May 2025 Faculty-elected Member, Board of Trustees, Kwansei Gakuin University (current) Jun 2026 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), the Company (current)

Oct 2004 Registered as attorney-at-law; joined Yodoyabashi Yamagami Partners (current) Mar 2015 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Studio Alice Co., Ltd. Mar 2016 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Studio Alice Co., Ltd. (current) Aug 2020 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), TONE Inc. (current) Jun 2026 Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), the Company (current)