Tokyo Stock Exchange Interim Business Plan

The Tokyo Stock Exchange has prepared its Interim Business Plan for the next 3 years beginning April 2002, aiming, as the central marketplace for Japanese securities, to strengthen its market functions and enhance its international competitiveness.

Read the Interim Business Plan at: http://www.tse.or.jp/english/news/2002/200202/020219_b.pdf

Descriptions concerning future prospects in the Interim Business Plan are based on the current economic situation and business environment and are subject to change depending upon various factors including, but not limited to, future trends of the Japanese economy and securities markets, changes in legal and other systems, and/or development of new services and information technology. Accordingly, the Exchange is not in a position to guarantee the certainty of these prospects.