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Copyright 2013 © HOYA CORPORATIONCopyright 2013 © HOYA CORPORATIONCopyright 2013 © HOYA CORPORATION
Yuzaburo Mogi
Yukiharu Kodama
Honorary CEO,
Chairman of the Board of
Kikkoman Corporation
Chairman of the
Mechanical Social Systems
Foundation, Incorporated Foundation
Outside director
Chairman of the
Nomination
Committee
Member of the
Compensation
Committee
Member of the
Audit Committee
Outside director
Chairman of the
Audit Committee
Member of the
Nomination
Committee
Member of the
Compensation
Committee
Messages from Outside Directors
HOYA's Invisible Assets
Hoya's strength in our globalized society is, I believe, in ability to devise strategy in a long-
term global perspective ̶ and to implement it. The company has worldwide business
operations and has hired many talented non-Japanese division managers in addition to its
CEO who has extensive overseas work experience.
All outside directors including myself are internationally-minded and all have a wealth of
experience. In addition to overseeing Hoya's activities, we bring a global perspective in
our advice on Hoya's strategies.
In my view, what is most important for Hoya today is to develop its highly promising Life Care
businesses into a growth-leading basis of the company. Hoya's speedy decision-making and
execution capabilities are sources of strength but can become weaknesses as well.
We, as outside directors, intend to help grow the company by overseeing whether the
company is properly managed from a different perspective than that of the internal
management.
I find that Hoya's strength includes the management's flexibility and speed in decision-
making and execution as well as having an efficient system to instill the strength in each
business division, which operates on a global scale. In addition, Hoya's corporate
governance is functioning properly. This was evidenced by the efficiency of management
as provided by a "company with committees" system. The system for listening and
properly responding to employees' complaints and dissatisfactions is additional evidence.
Hoya has sustained high profit and high growth by developing niche markets which larger
companies would find difficult to penetrate. In order to globally develop and expand this
business model, Hoya will need to make further efforts in gathering information, R&D, and
hiring talented people globally. I am confident that Hoya is willing and capable of
overcoming those challenges and keeping on its growth path.
I intend to make the best-possible effort to contribute to Hoya's development based on
my 34 years of working in government service and then being in an executive position in
the financial industry and various associations, as well as on my knowledge and insight
with regard to economic and political matters.