
Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. is a certified broadcast holding company under the Broadcast Act. While maintaining our subsidiary Fuji TV as the core, the optimal allocation of management resources to peripheral business fields outside broadcasting is necessary to swiftly respond to changes in the environment surrounding the media industry and boost the enterprise value of the Fuji Media Holdings Group. The certified broadcast holding company is the most appropriate business format for that approach.
The Fuji Media Holdings Group aims to become a leading Japanese media conglomerate, and recognizes that appropriate Group governance is essential to achieve that goal.
There is no doubt that the broadcasting business, and in particular our subsidiary Fuji TV, is still the core of the Group. As the parent company Fuji Media Holdings requires the greatest possible understanding that our subsidiary Fuji TV is engaged in the broadcasting business using the airwaves which are public property, and of its role as social infrastructure – that is, of the mission to maintain lifeline functions for emergency broadcasts as a backbone medium and to deliver responsible contents. We believe that as a result this contributes to boosting the enterprise value of the Group as a whole.
Consequently even after our transition to a certified broadcast holding company, our fundamental philosophy of respecting the public nature of broadcasting and fulfilling social responsibility remains absolutely unchanged. Based on that, we will continuously pursue quality management as a listed company and examine ideal corporate governance for the Fuji Media Holdings Group.
Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. has set the number of Directors at 20 or less, with a term of office of one year. All the Company's Directors are also Directors at our subsidiary Fuji TV.
This system was established based on comprehensive considerations, including the great influence of our subsidiary Fuji TV within the Fuji Media Holdings Group. The Company will examine the future structure flexibly, to maximize the Group's overall enterprise value.
We have established a Corporate Compliance Office to enhance our internal control function. This Office includes an internal controls supervisory manager, a compliance improvement manager, and a J-SOX promotion manager to secure proper financial reporting. The Corporate Compliance Office strives to swiftly resolve issues in each department with measures across the Company, while advancing the proper execution of works. We have established a similar system at our subsidiary Fuji TV.
With this, the Company primarily manages the internal control system for the entire Group, while also ensuring the proper execution of the internal control function at subsidiary Fuji TV.
As major company organs, in addition to the General Shareholders Meeting and Directors stipulated by the Company Law, Fuji Media Holdings has arranged a Board of Directors, Corporate Auditors, a Board of Corporate Auditors, Accounting Auditors, and an Executive Committee Management Council as a body to execute company works. The Executive Committee mostly comprises full-time Directors, deliberates important management issues, conducts preliminary reviews of important items submitted to the Board of Directors, and shares information on the execution of works by each department. The full-time Corporate Auditors also participate in the Executive Committee.
The Board of Group Presidents also meets on a regular basis for a lively exchange of opinions regarding the conditions at individual group companies, to grasp conditions throughout the Fuji Media Holdings Group and promote full communications and consensus building via the holding company.
Fuji Media Holdings adopts a Board of Corporate Auditors system. The Board of Corporate Auditors format is a pillar of the Fuji Media Holdings Group. This format realizes an appropriate balance between the demands to secure and enhance corporate value and the public nature and public welfare aspects of the broadcasting business at Fuji TV, which is the core of group as a wholly owned Fuji Media Holdings subsidiary.
At present, three of the five company's Corporate Auditors are Outside Corporate Auditors. For ideal audit works, the Outside Corporate Auditors provide a proper balance between individuals with high-level knowledge and discernment backed by a wealth of experience in the media business, who can conduct audits on the management of Fuji Media Holdings including all group companies based on their expertise, and individuals with experience in other fields who can provide objective supervision and direction based on broad-ranging fair judgment, without excessive emphasis on media business.
At present, six of the fourteen company's Directors are Outside Directors. As Outside Directors, the company has chosen individuals with appropriate execution and supervision capabilities, backed by a high level of expertise in the media business. As Inside Directors, we have appointed individuals who are well versed in our corporate culture and have a wealth of experience and strong execution abilities.
The company's works execution and supervision framework is as follows.

In addition to this structure, Fuji Media Holdings makes every effort to reflect shareholders' perspectives in corporate management by sharing the comments and requests received from shareholders through diverse proactive investor relations activities with our management executives. The transition to a certified broadcast holding company has no effect whatsoever on our investor relations approach. Fuji Media Holdings maintains a positive disclosure policy, including information on our subsidiaries. Specific examples to date include quarterly presentations to analysts and the media inside Japan, along with one or two presentations to institutional investors overseas each year. To maintain equal treatment in the presentation of information to investors, the materials distributed at domestic presentations are promptly posted on our homepage, together with video recordings of the presentations.
Fuji TV recognizes its social responsibility as a company using the public airwaves; strictly observes all concerned laws, regulations and norms starting with the Broadcast Law, the Radio Law, and the Broadcast Standards stipulated by the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan; and strives to broadcast appropriate programs through deliberations by our TV Code Affairs based on the Fuji Television Code of Conduct and the Fuji Television Program Council Regulations. Fuji Media Holdings believes this leads to greater respect for the position of our viewers, who are important stakeholders, while working to uphold and enhance corporate value from the perspective of our shareholders.
The company's internal controls framework is as follows.
