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(As of March 31, 2010)

Number of shareholders 236,480
Number of shares 789,666,095

		FY2005	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008	FY2009
Financial institutions	No. of shareholders	368	374	404	390	352
	No. of shares (1000)	287,788	305,746	295,532	284,243	266,658
	% of shares outstanding	32.36	34.38	33.23	36.00	36.00
Registered financial instruments firms	No. of shareholders	51	65	100	93	55
	No. of shares (1000)	17,848	26,874	24,947	16,045	27,327
	% of shares outstanding	2.01	3.02	2.81	2.03	3.46
Other institutions	No. of shareholders	986	1,154	1,409	1,597	1,663
	No. of shares (1000)	43,280	36,557	37,030	41,068	39,787
	% of shares outstanding	4.87	4.11	4.16	5.20	5.04
Foreign investors	No. of shareholders	1,067	1,088	1,034	1,024	914
	No. of shares (1000)	389,313	346,012	328,802	271,441	256,760
	% of shares outstanding	43.78	38.91	36.97	34.37	32.51
Private investors and others	No. of shareholders	105,639	109,431	146,530	193,332	233,494
	No. of shares (1000)	151,044	144,270	156,633	176,648	198,931
	% of shares outstanding	16.99	16.22	17.61	22.37	25.19
Takeda	No. of shares (1000)	534	29,813	46,329	220	204
	% of shares outstanding	0.06	3.35	5.21	0.03	0.03
Total	No. of shareholders	108,111	112,113	149,478	196,437	236,480
	No. of shares (1000)	889,272	889,272	889,272	789,666	789,666

Ranking	Previous ranking	Shareholders	No. of shares held (1000)	% of shares outstanding
1	(1)	Nippon Life Insurance Company	56,400	7.14
2	(2)	Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust account)	42,609	5.40
3	(4)	The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust account)	30,147	3.82
4	(5)	Takeda Science Foundation	17,912	2.27
5	(7)	State Street Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. 505205	11,655	1.48
6	(-)	JP MORGAN CHASE BANK 385147	9,250	1.17
7	(9)	BNP PARIBAS Securities (Japan) Limited	9,199	1.16
8	(13)	SSBT OD05 OMNIBUS ACCOUNT CHINA TREATY CLIENTS	8,949	1.13
9	(18)	NORTHERN TRUST Co. (AVFC) SUB A/C AMERICAN CLIENTS	8,755	1.11
10	(16)	STATE STREET BANK-WEST PENSION FUND CLIENTS-EXEMPT	8,329	1.05

(As of March 31, 2010)
Institution	Rating
Moody's	Aa1
Standard & Poor's (S&P)	AA
Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I)	AAA

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