Canon Inc. approved the election of Thus, Messrs. Hiroaki Sato and Yutaka Tanaka were newly appointed as Audit & Supervisory Board Members and both of them assumed their offices. Mr. Yutaka Tanaka is an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member. As a result of the resolution passed at the meeting of the Board of Directors which was held after the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders for the 118th Business Term the company appointed Fujio Mitarai as Representative Director, Chairman & CEO, Masaya Maeda as Representative Director, President & COO, Toshizo Tanaka as Representative Director, Executive Vice President & CFO and Toshio Homma as Representative Director, Executive Vice President & CTO & In charge of Office Business, at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on March 29, 2019.

At the Meeting, the company also approved the term-end dividend was decided to be JPY 80.00 per share. The company already paid an interim dividend of JPY 80.00 per share, the full-year dividend will be 160.00 yen per share, which is the same amount as the previous term that included payment of a commemorative dividend JPY 10.00 per share. Receive the dividend in accordance with the instructions stated on the enclosed Receipt of Term-end Dividend of the 118th Business Term at a nearby head office, branch office or subbranch office of Japan Post Bank, or a post office (banking agency) during the payment period from March 29, 2019 to May 8, 2019.