Eisai adopted the following corporate concept and incorporated them into the company's Articles of Incorporation as a commitment to our shareholders.

(Corporate concept)
1		The Company's corporate concept is to give first thought to patients and their families, and to increase the benefits that health care provides. Under this concept, the Company endeavors to become a human health care (hhc) company.
2		The Company's mission is the enhancement of patient satisfaction. The Company believes that revenues and earnings will be generated as a consequence of the fulfillment of the mission. The Company places importance on this positive sequence of the mission and the ensuing results.
3		Positioning compliance, the observance of legal and ethical standards as a core in all business activities, the Company strives to fulfill corporate social responsibilities.
4		The Company's principal stakeholders are patients, customers, shareholders and employees. The Company seeks to foster a good relationship with stakeholders and to enhance their value through making the following efforts:
		(1)	Satisfying unmet medical needs, ensuring stable supply of high quality products, and providing useful information of safety and efficacy.
		(2)	Timely disclosure of corporate managerial information, enhancement of corporate value, and proactive return to shareholders.
		(3)	Ensuring stable employment, offering challenging and fulfilling duties, and providing full opportunities for the development and enhancement of employees' capabilities.

This corporate concept is commonly shared as common knowledge among Eisai's Japanese and overseas group companies (Eisai Network Companies). While developing Eisai's global business through their respective separate operations, they work as one toward the realization of this corporate concept.
To realize the corporate concept, corporate measures and policies must be executed with the long-term vision. Such implementation is made possible only with the trust of its shareholders.
By strengthening its corporate governance, Eisai aims to secure the trust of its shareholders. With such trust, our shareholders will be incentivised to hold our shares with confident for a long time.
The essence of robust corporate governance is to encourage corporate vitality, to provide fair management and to enhance the transparency of management.
Various measures have been implemented and continually strengthened by Eisai for its corporate governance. This includes the introduction of the Corporate Officer System and the establishment of a Corporate Governance Committee with an outside director as chair in fiscal 2000, and the adoption of the Company with Committees System in 2004.
The core aspect of Eisai's corporate governance is the clear separation of the function of management oversight from that of business execution, by maximizing the advantage of the Company with Committees System and the appointment of independent outside directors.
Speed and flexibility of business execution is enhanced by significantly delegating management decision-making from the Board of Directors to the Executive Officers. Management vitality is increased by providing Executive Officers with autonomy under internal control by the Executive Officers. At the same time, with the trust of the shareholders, the Board of Directors (of which outside directors constitute the majority) performs its corporate management oversight, makes optimum decisions and thereby securers the fairness of management.
In addition, by disclosing to the shareholders important information related to management in a timely, appropriate, easy-to-understand and accessible way, Eisai strives for good communication with the shareholders.
Eisai's Corporate Governance Guidelines was adopted in fiscal 2000 and has been periodically reviewed and revised to further strengthen its corporate governance. With the eighth revision of these guidelines, Eisai takes the opportunity to disclose its Corporate Governance Guidelines to its shareholders.