<h3>3. Dividend Policy</h3>
<p style="margin-left: 24px; text-align: left">The Company considers returning profits to shareholders as one of its most important management priorities, while securing necessary internal reserves for future business development and strengthening its financial position. The Company's basic policy is to implement stable, continuous dividends and to distribute surplus earnings once per fiscal year as a year-end dividend. The decision-making authority for year-end dividend distribution rests with the shareholders' meeting.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 12px">Based on this policy, the Company has decided to implement an ordinary dividend of 5 yen per share for the current fiscal year. As a result, the dividend payout ratio for the current fiscal year is 13.21%.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 12px">The Company intends to use retained earnings for strategic investments to further enhance cost competitiveness and supply products that support self-medication, in order to respond to anticipated changes in the business environment.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 24px; text-align: left; text-indent: 12px">The surplus earnings distribution for the current fiscal year is as follows.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 24px; margin-right: 24px; text-align: left">Annual Shareholders' Meeting Resolution</p>
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<p>Our basic dividend policy is to maintain stable, consistent dividends while securing retained earnings for future business development and strengthening our financial position. We pay dividends once per fiscal year as a year-end dividend. We plan to use retained earnings for strategic investments to improve cost competitiveness and expand our self-medication product offerings.</p>

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