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NYSE Corporate Governance Standards
As a Japanese company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Canon is not required to follow several of the NYSE listing standards. Canon’s corporate
governance practices, as described above, differ in certain significant respects from those that U.S. companies must adopt in order to maintain a NYSE listing. Canon is
not required to: include individuals on its board of directors who meet the NYSE’s independence requirements; include non-management individuals on its board of
directors; create nominating, compensation and audit committees of the board of directors; make publicly available one or more documents which purport to summarize
all aspects of its corporate governance guidelines; or publicly or prompty disclose any waiver from its code of ethics for its directors or other executive officers.
Enlightened Code of Conduct
The Canon Group Code of Conduct, a handbook
calling on all executives and employees to perform
their duties in compliance with laws and corporate
ethics, has been distributed throughout the Canon
Group, in nine languages. Our corporate code also
encompasses our environmental policies, which
continue to be a prime concern throughout the
whole Canon organization. In addition, Canon Inc.
set up the Corporate Ethics & Compliance
Committee consisting of all chief executives on
January 1, 2004 for the purpose of sharing
compliance awareness as common value among
all executives and employees and therefore
enhancing sound management.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Fujio Mitarai
Senior Managing Directors
Ichiro Endo Kinya Uchida
Yukio Yamashita Akira Tajima
Toshizo Tanaka Tsuneji Uchida
Managing Directors
Takashi Saito Hajime Tsuruoka
Yusuke Emura Akiyoshi Moroe
Nobuyoshi Tanaka Kunio Watanabe
Junji Ichikawa Ikuo Soma
Directors
Teruomi Takahashi Ryoichi Bamba
Hironori Yamamoto Tomonori Iwashita
Yoroku Adachi Toshio Homma
Yasuo Mitsuhashi Shigeru Imaiida
Katsuichi Shimizu
Corporate Auditors
Kohtaro Miyagi Tadashi Ohe
Masaharu Aono Tetsuo Yoshizawa
Board of Directors
and Corporate Auditors
(as of December 31, 2003)
Canon Inc. headquarters
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