IR Japan Holdings, Ltd. announced that it has decided to appoint Tetsuo Morishita (Professor at Sophia Law School) as an external advisor to the Group Compliance Committee, serving as an external expert. The company will use the opinions of the external advisor as reference to strengthen the Group's conflict of interest management framework and to ensure the effectiveness of various measures. Composition is Chairperson: Yutaka Fujiwara (Director in charge of the Administration Department).

Advisor: Tetsuo Morishita (Professor at Sophia Law School). Members: Heads of business units of each Group company. Secretariat: Planning Department, Administration Department, Compliance Office.

Tetsuo Morishita (Professor, Affiliated Faculty Member of Faculty of Law and Law School of Sophia University) Areas of expertise: Financial law, international business law, negotiation: Graduated from The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law in 1989. Worked for The Sumitomo Bank, Limited from April 1989 through March 1999. Completed the Master's Course in Civil and Criminal Law (specialized course of Economic Legal Affairs) at The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics in March 1994.

Assistant Professor at Sophia University, Faculty of Law from April 1999. Professor at Sophia Law School from April 2007. Vice President for Global Academic Affairs at Sophia University since April 2021.

Also, Professor at Sophia University, Faculty of Law. Chair of the Payments Council on Financial Innovation, Financial Services Agency, since June 2016. Member of the Financial Trouble Coordination Conference, Financial Services Agency, since February 2017.

Member of the Working Group on Capital Market Regulations, Financial Services Agency, since October 2020. Member of the Study Group on Digital and Decentralized Finance, Financial Services Agency, since July 2021.