Apr 1988 Joined Hon no Ten Iwamoto Co., Ltd. Oct 2000 Joined the Company; Manager, Hokkaido Office and General Manager, Hokkaido Branch Jun 2007 General Manager, Store Development Department, the Company Dec 2007 Executive Officer and General Manager, Store Development Department, the Company Mar 2008 Executive Officer and General Manager, Store Development Department, Bunkyodo Co., Ltd. Nov 2008 Director and Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Development Department and General Manager, Business Strategy Office, Bunkyodo Co., Ltd. Jul 2009 Director and Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Development Department, General Manager, Business Strategy Office and General Manager, Information Systems Department, Bunkyodo Co., Ltd. Nov 2010 Managing Director and Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Development Department, the Company Nov 2017 Managing Director and Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Management Headquarters, the Company Nov 2018 Representative Director, President, the Company (current) Nov 2018 Representative Director, President, Bunkyodo Co., Ltd. (current)

Apr 1999 Registered as attorney-at-law Feb 2002 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Trader Securities Co., Ltd. (now Traders Holdings Co., Ltd.) Feb 2006 Outside Director, Barrio Secure Networks Co., Ltd. Oct 2008 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Sanno Gakki Co., Ltd. (current) Nov 2009 Outside Director, the Company (current) Jun 2011 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Fujibo Holdings, Inc. Feb 2018 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Can Do Co., Ltd. (current) Sep 2018 Partner, Kuroda Law Office (current)

Oct 1987 Registered as certified public accountant trainee Apr 1988 Joined Sanwa Totsumatsu Aoki Audit Corporation (now Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC) Apr 1991 Registered as certified public accountant Aug 1997 Joined Tsutomu Tsubaki Certified Public Accountant Office Apr 2003 Registered as tax accountant Sep 2003 Senior Partner, Bridge Joint Certified Public Accountant Office; Representative Partner, Bridge Tax Corporation Jun 2007 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Himawari Holdings Co., Ltd. and Himawari Securities Co., Ltd. Apr 2009 Representative, BE1 General Accounting Office (current) Nov 2009 Outside Director, the Company (current) Jul 2015 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Nihon View Hotel Co., Ltd.

Jul 1981 Joined Z Co., Ltd. Oct 1995 Joined the Company Oct 1999 General Manager, Media Sales Department, the Company Nov 2005 Director and Executive Officer, the Company Mar 2007 Director and Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Development Headquarters and General Manager, Product Development Department, the Company Nov 2007 Director and Executive Officer in charge of Finance and Accounting, General Manager, Business Development Headquarters and General Manager, Product Development Department, the Company Mar 2008 Director and Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Administration Headquarters, the Company Nov 2010 Managing Director and Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Administration Headquarters, the Company Nov 2017 Director and Executive Officer, General Manager, Business Production Department, the Company Nov 2019 General Manager, Internal Audit Office, the Company Nov 2023 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, the Company (current)

Nov 2002 Joined the Company Dec 2019 General Manager, Business Strategy Office and General Manager, Systems Department, Operations Headquarters, Bunkyodo Co., Ltd. Dec 2021 General Manager, Business Strategy Office, General Manager, Environmental Design and Control Office, Operations Headquarters, and General Manager, IR & Public Relations Office, Administration Headquarters, Bunkyodo Co., Ltd. Jun 2025 General Manager, Administration Headquarters in charge of Finance and Information Disclosure and General Manager, Business Strategy Office, Bunkyodo Co., Ltd. (current) Nov 2025 Director, General Manager, Finance and Accounting Department, the Company (current)

Apr 1996 Joined Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2017 General Manager, Sales Promotion Group, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2022 Executive Officer and Deputy General Manager, Marketing Headquarters, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2022 Director, NIC Retails Co., Ltd. (now NIC Co., Ltd.) (current) Apr 2023 Director and Deputy General Manager, Marketing Headquarters, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2025 Managing Director; General Manager, Sales Headquarters, Marketing Headquarters, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. (current) Nov 2025 Director, the Company (current)

Apr 1992 Joined Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2014 General Manager, Sales Promotion Office, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2017 Group Leader, Business Planning Group, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2019 Executive Officer and General Manager, Business Strategy Office, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. Apr 2021 Executive Officer and General Manager, Business Integration Office, Nippan Group Holdings Inc. Oct 2023 Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Culture Experience Co., Ltd. (current) Nov 2023 Outside Director, the Company (current) Apr 2025 Executive Officer, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc. (current)

Apr 1995 Joined Nichiha Corporation Sep 2008 Registered as attorney-at-law; joined Seiwa Meitetsu Law Office Nov 2015 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, the Company (current) Sep 2018 Joined Kudanzaka Law Office (current) Jun 2019 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Nichias Corporation (current) Jun 2020 Outside Director, Maxell Holdings, Ltd. (now Maxell, Ltd.) (current) Mar 2021 Outside Director, Roland Corporation

Apr 1999 Registered as attorney-at-law; joined Daiichi Fuyo Law Office (current) Dec 2013 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. Apr 2019 Trustee, Jissen Women's Academy (current) Apr 2020 Outside Director, Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. (now Mitsui Chemicals Crop & Life Solutions, Inc.) (current) Nov 2024 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, the Company (current)