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(Securities Code 4348) May 31, 2024 (Measures for electronic provision start on May 30, 2024)

Dear Shareholders with Voting Rights:

Jun Kuroda

President and CEO

INFOCOM CORPORATION

9-7-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

NOTICE OF THE 42nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

We would like to express our appreciation for your continued support and patronage.

You are hereby informed that the 42nd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of INFOCOM CORPORATION (the "Company") will be held for the purposes described below.

The Company has taken measures for electronic provision in convening this General Meeting of Shareholders. In addition to the matters included in this Notice, matters to be provided electronically are posted on the following website on the Internet as "NOTICE OF THE 42nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS."

The Company's website: https://www.infocom.co.jp/en/ir/stock/meeting.html

In addition to the above, the information is posted on the following website on the Internet for your reference, as necessary.

Tokyo Stock Exchange website: https://www2.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/JJK020030Action.do

Please access the above-mentioned website, enter the Company's name or securities code to search, and select "Basic information" and "Documents for public inspection/PR information" in this order to review the information.

If you will not be attending the meeting in person, you can exercise your voting rights by postal mail in writing or via the Internet. Please review the Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders posted on the matters to be provided electronically and exercise your voting rights by following the below "Guide to Exercising Voting Rights."

1. Date and Time: Monday, June 24, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. Japan time (reception desk opens at 3:30 p.m.)

2. Venue:

Hall B, Tokyo Midtown Hall, Midtown East B1F

9-7-2 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

*

The venue is different from that for the previous meeting. Please confirm the

location of the venue provided at the end of this document (available in Japanese

only).

3. Meeting Agenda:

Matters to be reported: The Business Report, Consolidated Financial Statements, and Non-consolidated

Financial Statements for the 42nd Fiscal Year (from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024) and results of audits by the Accounting Auditors and the Audit Committee on the Consolidated Financial Statements

Matters to be resolved:

Proposal 1: Distribution of Surplus

Proposal 2: Election of Nine (9) Directors

Proposal 3: Election of Two (2) Auditors

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4. Predetermined Matters concerning Convocation

Among the matters to be provided electronically, the following items are not provided in the paper copy to be sent to shareholders who have requested it, pursuant to provisions of laws and regulations as well as Article 14 of the

Company's Articles of Incorporation.

Therefore, the paper copy to be sent to shareholders who have requested it is a part of documents that have been audited by Auditors and by the Accounting Auditors in preparing their respective audit reports.

Business Report:

Matters regarding share acquisition rights

Outline of the contents of resolution for the establishment of an Internal Control System

Outline of the operation status of the Internal Control System

Consolidated Financial Statements:

Consolidated statements of changes in net assets

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Non-consolidated Financial Statements:

Non-consolidated statements of changes in net assets

Notes to Non-consolidated Financial Statements

  • Should the matters to be provided electronically require revisions, the revised versions will be posted on each of the websites where the information has been posted.
  • Japanese and English versions of this Notice can be viewed on the Company's website.
    The Company's Japanese website: https://www.infocom.co.jp/
    The Company's English website: https://www.infocom.co.jp/en/
  • We will be offering small gifts to shareholders attending the meeting in person. *One gift per shareholder.

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Guide to Exercising Voting Rights

Exercise by attending the meeting

Shareholders who will be attending the meeting

Please present the Voting Rights Exercise Form at the reception desk.

Please be advised that persons other than shareholders with voting rights, such as proxies who are not shareholders and persons accompanying shareholders, are not permitted to enter the venue of the General Meeting of Shareholders.

Date and time of the meeting

Monday, June 24, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. Japan time

Shareholders who will not be attending the meeting

Exercise by postal mail in writing

Exercise via the Internet

Please indicate your vote for or against the proposals on the Voting Rights Exercise Form and return it by mail.

If you do not indicate your vote for or against any of the proposals on the Voting Rights Exercise Form, you will be deemed to have approved that proposal.

Deadline

Voting Rights Exercise Forms should arrive no later than 5:30

p.m. Japan time on Friday, June 21, 2024.

Please refer to the "Exercise of Voting Rights via the Internet" on the next page and indicate your vote for or against.

Deadline

Voting rights should be exercised no later than 5:30 p.m. Japan

time on Friday, June 21, 2024.

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Exercise of Voting Rights via the Internet

You can exercise your voting rights via the Internet only by accessing the Company's designated Voting Rights Exercise Website (https://evote.tr.mufg.jp/) via a personal computer or a smartphone, etc.

Scanning QR code by your smartphone

You can exercise voting rights without entering "login ID" and "temporary password" by using your smartphone. You may login to the website by scanning the "QR code for log in" provided on the voting stub (right-hand side) of the enclosed Voting Rights Exercise Form.

Entering login ID and temporary password

How to use Voting Rights Exercise Website

  1. Access the Voting Rights Exercise Website.
  2. Enter your "login ID" and "temporary password" printed at the bottom right of the Voting Rights Exercise Form.
  3. Indicate your approval or disapproval by following the instructions on the screen.

(Notes)

  • Votes via the Internet will be accepted until 5:30 p.m. Japan time on the business day before the general meeting of shareholders (Friday, June 21, 2024).
  • If you have exercised your voting rights both by postal mail and via the Internet, only the vote exercised via the Internet will be valid.
  • If you have exercised your voting rights more than once via the Internet, the last vote will be valid.

Inquiries regarding the system, etc. (Help Desk)

Stock Transfer Agency Department, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation Toll-free number 0120-173-027 (9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m., toll-free within Japan)

To Institutional Investors: The Electronic Voting System Platform is available.

  • In addition to the voting methods via the Internet described above, trust banks and other nominal shareholders (including standing proxies) can use the Electronic Voting System Platform by applying in advance to use the platform as an electromagnetic means of exercising your voting rights for this General Meeting of Shareholders. The platform is operated by ICJ Inc., a joint venture company established by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., etc.

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Reference Documents for the General Meeting of Shareholders

Proposal 1: Distribution of Surplus

The Company Group considers stable profit distribution an important management issue in order to enhance shareholder value. Our policy is to aim for a dividend payout ratio of 30%, in consideration of the balance of demand for funds, by maintaining a sound financial position and prioritizing investments necessary for mid- to long-term business expansion as well as by striving to provide stable dividends, and increase dividends in line with improved business performance.

Based on this policy, for the year under review, the year-end dividend will be 27 yen per share as detailed below.

  1. Type of dividend property: Cash
  2. Matters regarding allocation of dividend property and total amount thereof:

27 yen per ordinary share of the Company

Total amount of dividend

1,481,903,586yen

  1. Effective date for distribution of surplus: June 26, 2024

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Proposal 2: Election of Nine (9) Directors

The terms of office for all eight (8) Directors will expire at the conclusion of this Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

Accordingly, the election of nine (9) Directors is proposed. The candidates are as follows:

Attendance

Number of

at the

years

No.

Name

Current positions

Attributes

Board of

served as

Directors

Director

Meetings

1

Norihiro Takehara

17/17

15 years

Representative director

Reappointment

(100%)

2

Jun Kuroda

President and CEO

Reappointment

17/17

4 years

(100%)

3

Mototaka Kuboi

Director and CSRO

Reappointment

17/17

3 years

(100%)

4

Naohiko Moriyama

Director

14/14

1 year

Reappointment

(100%)

Reappointment

17/17

5

Kazuhiko Tsuda

Outside Director

Outside Director

10 years

(100%)

Independent Officer

Reappointment

17/17

6

Kazuhiko Fujita

Outside Director

Outside Director

8 years

(100%)

Independent Officer

Reappointment

17/17

7

Sachiko Awai

Outside Director

Outside Director

4 years

(100%)

Independent Officer

Reappointment

8

Akihisa Fujita

Outside Director

Outside Director

17/17

2 years

Independent Officer

(100%)

New appointment

9

Kenji Otaka

Outside Director

Independent Officer

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No.

Name

Number of the

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company

shares of the

(Date of birth)

Company held:

Norihiro Takehara

October 2003

Deputy General Manager, Mobile and Internet Division of

(September 24, 1957)

the Company

(Age 66)

April 2007

General Manager, Digital Entertainment Business Division

of the Company

June 2008

Executive Officer of the Company

Reappointment

June 2009

Director of the Company

[Attendance at the Board

April 2011

CHO and CSRO of the Company

April 2012

President and CEO of the Company

of Directors Meetings in

April 2023

Representative Director of the Company

FY2023]

June 2023

Chairman of the Company (to present)

17/17 (100%)

62,000

[Term of office as

[Significant concurrent positions]

1

Director as of the day of

the Annual General

Meeting of Shareholders]

15 years

[Term of office as

Representative Director]

12 years

[Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director]

After working to commercialize and strengthen the competitivity of the e-comics business, which grew into the Company's

mainstay business, Mr. Norihiro Takehara has been leading the management and business execution of the Company

Group and producing successful results such as by serving as chief officer and then as President and CEO.

Based on these achievements, we nominated him as candidate for Director in the belief that his abundant knowledge and

ability in management are essential to the Company's management.

Jun Kuroda

April 2011

Deputy General Manager, Digital Entertainment Business

(April 5, 1965)

Division of the Company

(Age 59)

April 2012

General Manager, Digital Entertainment Business Division

of the Company

June 2013

Executive Officer of the Company

Reappointment

October 2013

Representative Director and President of Amutus

[Attendance at the Board

Corporation

April 2017

Managing Executive Officer of the Company

of Directors Meetings in

April 2020

CSRO of the Company

FY2023]

June 2020

Director of the Company

17/17 (100%)

April 2023

President and CEO of the Company (to present)

45,400

[Term of office as

[Significant concurrent positions]

Director as of the day of

2

the Annual General

Meeting of Shareholders]

4 years

[Term of office as

President]

1 year

[Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director]

Serving as head of the digital entertainment business department, Mr. Jun Kuroda has directed the operation of the e-

comics business, successfully overseeing its growth into one of the top businesses in the industry. From FY2020, he has

been leading the Company Group's initiatives to address sustainability issues as CSRO. From FY2023, he has been leading

the management and business execution of the Company Group as President and CEO.

Based on these achievements, we nominated him as candidate for Director in the belief that his outstanding leadership is

essential for realizing sustainable growth of corporate value of the Company.

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No.

Name

Number of the

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company

shares of the

(Date of birth)

Company held:

Mototaka Kuboi

April 2012

Deputy General Manager, Healthcare Business Division of

(February 24, 1962)

the Company

(Age 62)

April 2013

General Manager, Healthcare Business Division of the

Company

June 2014

Executive Officer of the Company

Reappointment

April 2019

Managing Executive Officer of the Company

[Attendance at the Board

June 2021

Director of the Company (to present)

of Directors Meetings in

April 2022

General Manager, Healthcare Business Sector of the

18,100

Company

FY2023]

April 2023

CSRO of the Company (to present)

17/17 (100%)

[Significant concurrent positions]

3

[Term of office as

Director as of the day of

the Annual General

Meeting of Shareholders]

3 years

[Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director]

Serving as head of the healthcare business department, Mr. Mototaka Kuboi has successfully increased the market share of

the business for domestic hospitals and expanded to comprehensive regional care sector, as well as directing overseas

expansion of business for hospitals. From FY2023, he has been leading the Company Group's sustainability management

to resolve materialities as CSRO.

Based on these achievements, we nominated him as candidate for Director in the belief that he is an essential person for

realizing sustainable growth of corporate value of the Company.

Naohiko Moriyama

April 2017

Teijin Group Corporate Officer

Responsible for Healthcare Business of Teijin Group of

(May 20, 1965)

Teijin Limited

(Age 59)

April 2019

General Manager, Healthcare New Business Division of

Teijin Limited

Reappointment

April 2021

Teijin Group Executive Officer

[Attendance at the Board

President, Healthcare Business of Teijin Group of Teijin

Limited

of Directors Meetings in

June 2021

Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Teijin Limited

0

FY2023]

October 2022

Chief Officer (Corporate Strategy) of Teijin Limited (to

14/14 (100%)

present)

4

[Term of office as

April 2023

Senior Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Teijin

Limited (to present)

Director as of the day of

June 2023

Director of the Company (to present)

the Annual General

[Significant concurrent positions]

Meeting of Shareholders]

Senior Executive Officer, Member of the Board; Chief Officer (Corporate

1 year

Strategy) of Teijin Limited

[Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Director]

Mr. Naohiko Moriyama has experience and knowledge in corporate management from his years of engagement in

expanding the healthcare business field at Teijin Group and his service as Corporate Officer and Member of the Board, etc.

at Teijin Group.

Based on these achievements, we nominated him as candidate for Director in the belief that he is an essential person for

realizing sustainable growth of corporate value of the Company.

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No.

Name

Number of the

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company

shares of the

(Date of birth)

Company held:

Kazuhiko Tsuda

March 1994

Completed Systems Engineering, Division of Engineering,

(August 9, 1962)

the University of Tokushima Graduate School (PhD in

(Age 61)

Engineering)

April 1998

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy and Planning

Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Reappointment

July 2004

Representative and Director of GSSM Tsukuba, Ltd. (to

Outside Director

present)

Independent Officer

March 2005

Professor, Institute of Business Sciences, University of

[Attendance at the Board

Tsukuba (to present)

April 2006

Head, Doctoral Program in Systems Management Course,

0

of Directors Meetings in

University of Tsukuba

FY2023]

June 2014

Outside Director of the Company (to present)

17/17 (100%)

[Significant concurrent positions]

5

[Term of office as Outside

Professor, Institute of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Director as of the day of

Representative and Director of GSSM Tsukuba, Ltd.

the Annual General

Meeting of Shareholders]

10 years

[Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Outside Director and expected roles]

Mr. Kazuhiko Tsuda has experience engaging in management of a university venture business and as a specialist in natural

language understanding and information retrieval in the field of management system science and has been providing

appropriate advice from a fair and objective position as Outside Director.

Based on these achievements, we nominated him as candidate for Outside Director in the belief that he is an essential

person for realizing sustainable growth of corporate value of the Company.

By utilizing his expertise in the field of management systems and management experience, etc. at venture businesses, the

Company expects him to play a role to supervise the Company's management from an objective perspective independent of

business executors.

Kazuhiko Fujita

April 1976

Joined The Bank of Tokyo, Ltd.

(February 5, 1954)

August 1989

Joined S.G. Warburg & Co.

(Age 70)

March 1993

Joined Yaohan International Holdings Limited

May 2005

Director of TANITA Corporation

October 2015

Personal consulting services regarding business

Reappointment

management, establishment of corporate internal

Outside Director

control, overseas strategy, etc. (to present)

Independent Officer

February 2016

Advisor, Overseas Business Promotion Department of

[Attendance at the Board

AUTOBACS SEVEN CO., LTD.

June 2016

Outside Director of the Company (to present)

2,600

of Directors Meetings in

June 2018

Representative Director of ESROH Co. Ltd. (to present)

FY2023]

[Significant concurrent positions]

17/17 (100%)

Representative Director of ESROH Co. Ltd.

6

[Term of office as Outside

Director as of the day of

the Annual General

Meeting of Shareholders]

8 years

[Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Outside Director and expected roles]

Mr. Kazuhiko Fujita has knowledge and experience in corporate management as Director in a health-related company, in

addition to broad experience in overseas business. He has also been providing appropriate advice from a fair and objective

position as Outside Director.

Based on these achievements, we nominated him as candidate for Outside Director in the belief that he is an essential

person for realizing sustainable growth of corporate value of the Company.

By utilizing his abundant management experience in overseas business and a health-related company, the Company expects

him to play a role to supervise the Company's management from an objective perspective independent of business

executors.

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No.

Name

Number of the

Career summary, positions and responsibilities at the Company

shares of the

(Date of birth)

Company held:

July 1984

Joined Japan Office of U.S. Meat Export Federation

January 1991

Joined Estée Lauder Companies

March 1997

Joined NIHON L'ORÉAL K.K.

Sachiko Awai

November 2004

Joined GUERLAIN (LVJ Group)

May 2012

Joined fitfit, inc.

(May 21, 1957)

May 2013

President and Representative Director of La Prairie Japan

(Age 67)

January 2019

General Manager, INCOCO Business Department of

Newport Ltd.

Reappointment

Part Time Adviser, Natural Water Business Department of

Outside Director

Harves Co., Ltd.

Independent Officer

June 2019

External Director (who is an Audit & Supervisory

Committee Member) of A.D.Works. Co., Ltd.

[Attendance at the Board

April 2020

External Director (who is an Audit & Supervisory

0

of Directors Meetings in

Committee Member) of A.D.Works Group Co., Ltd. (to

FY2023]

present)

June 2020

Outside Director of the Company (to present)

17/17 (100%)

March 2022

External Director (who is an Audit & Supervisory

7

[Term of office as Outside

Committee Member) of BP Castrol K.K. (to present)

June 2023

Outside Director of H.U. Group Holdings, Inc. (to

Director as of the day of

present)

the Annual General

[Significant concurrent positions]

Meeting of Shareholders]

External Director (who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) of

4 years

A.D.Works Group Co., Ltd.

External Director (who is an Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) of BP

Castrol K.K.

Outside Director of H.U. Group Holdings, Inc.

[Reasons for nomination as a candidate for Outside Director and expected roles]

In addition to broad experience in overseas businesses and businesses targeting general consumers, Ms. Sachiko Awai also

has knowledge and experience in corporate activities as a corporate manager. She has been providing appropriate advice

from a fair and objective position as Outside Director.

Based on these achievements, we nominated her as candidate for Outside Director in the belief that she is an essential

person for realizing sustainable growth of corporate value of the Company.

By utilizing her abundant management experience in overseas business and businesses targeting general consumers, the

Company expects her to play a role to supervise the Company's management from an objective perspective independent of

business executors.

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