Rakuten : Notice on Partial Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation

	May 23,	2022
Company name	Rakuten Group, Inc.
Representative	Hiroshi Mikitani
	Chairman and CEO
	(Stock Code:	4755

Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market)

Notice on Partial Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation

Rakuten Group, Inc. (hereinafter the "Company") announces that the Board of Directors today resolved to propose a partial amendment to the Articles of Incorporation at the 26th Annual General Shareholders' Meeting to be held on March 2023.

1. Reasons for the proposal

In light of its future business developments, the Company proposes an amendment to the current Article 2 (Purpose) of the Company's Articles of Incorporation to include new business purposes.

2. Details of the proposed amendment

The details of the proposed amendment are as follows:

		(Amendments are underlined)
Existing Articles of Incorporation		Proposed amendment
(Purpose)		(Purpose)
Article 2 The purposes of the Company		Article 2 The purposes of the Company
shall be to control and manage		shall be to control and manage
the business operations of		the business operations of
companies or business entities in		companies or business entities in
Japan and overseas that engage		Japan and overseas that engage
in the following businesses by		in the following businesses by
acquiring or holding shares or		acquiring or holding shares or
equities of the said companies or		equities of the said companies or
business entities:		business entities:
1.-33. (Omission of the provisions)		1.-33. (Unchanged)
(Newly Established)		34. Administration of music copyrights and
		use and development of musical works,
		planning and producing of original
		recordings such as CDs and videos,
		publishing sheet music,
34. Any and all businesses relative to each		35. Any and all businesses relative to each
of the foregoing items		of the foregoing items

3. Date of amendments

Date of Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to approve the Amendment: To be decided

Effective date of the Amendment:

Same as the date of the above general meeting of shareholders