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Mid-term Environmental Strategy

The Fourth Voluntary Plan for Environmental Protection, which we have promoted since fiscal 2005, was reviewed in fiscal 2009 to set it as a global goal for both production sites in and outside Japan.

Fourth Environmental Action Plan (Former Fourth Voluntary Plan for Environmental Protection)

All goals for items regarding eco-products and eco-process were achieved in fiscal 2010. In fiscal 2011, a new production site will start operations in China. This new production site will become engaged mainly in part processing, thus will consume more energy, compared to the existing assembly sites. The rate of energy-intensive manufactured products will increase also in Japan. Therefore, as goals for and after fiscal 2011, values are increased compared to the results in fiscal 2010. Since CO2 emissions relating to power generation in Japan are expected to change due to the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake, trends need to be assessed to examine targets for energy-originated CO2 emissions.

We will continue efforts to restrain emissions of CO2, waste and chemical substances to the fullest extent through improvements in management and deliberate business investment.

Note: "YES" indicates the goal for 2010 has been achieved and "NO" indicates the goal for 2010 has not been achieved.

Note 1:
Targets for energy-originated CO2 emissions will be examined by determining changes in CO2 emissions relating to power generation in Japan.

Note 2:
For goals using ratios, a quantity-based net output rate is used as an indicator for evaluating activities.
Net Output = [Nominal Output in Japan] / [Corporate goods price index (electrical equipment) announced by the Bank of Japan for each year (the index for 1990 is 1)] + [Nominal Output outside Japan]

• The amount of electricity generated is adopted as the CO2 conversion factor for electricity in Japan: 4.17t-CO2/10 thousand kWh for fiscal 1990, 3.4 for fiscal 2010, and 3.51 for fiscal 2011 and 2012.
• The amount of electricity-received specific to the relevant countries was adopted as the CO2 conversion factor for electricity outside Japan in fiscal 1990. The GHG Protocol values for fiscal 2006 are adopted for fiscal 2010 or later.