Shareholder Information

Transfer Agent for Common Stock

The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Company, Limited
4-4, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100, Japan

Stock Exchange Listings and Quotations

NEC common stock is listed on the Tokyo and seven other stock exchanges in Japan. Overseas listings are on the Swiss Exchange (in the form of Swiss Bearer Depositary Receipts), the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (in the form of a Global Bearer Certificate), the London Stock Exchange, and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. American Depositary Receipts for common stock are quoted in the NASDAQ system in the United States.

Depositary for American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)

The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10286, U.S.A.

Sponsoring Bank for Global Bearer Certificate (GBC)

Deutsche Bank A.G.
Taunusanlage 12, 60262 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Depositary Agent for Swiss Bearer Depositary Receipts (SBDRs)

Swiss Bank Corporation
Aeschenvorstadt 1, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

Composition of Shareholders

(As of March 31, 1997)

Stock Price Range on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Yen)

ADR (NASDAQ) Price Range (U.S. dollars)

Trademarks

NEC, C&C, ATOMNET, MultiSync, BIGLOBE, and NEAX appearing in this annual report are trademarks of NEC Corporation in Japan and other countries.
PC Clean Spot, StarOffice, StarEnterprise, Parallel ACOS series, PC College, CEREB, PC-VAN, mesh, The Cyber Plaza, 98NOTE Aile, Plasma X, HYPERMS, and Pasolink appearing in this annual report are trademarks of NEC Corporation in Japan.
Express5800, SOCKS5, and SOCKS5 Toolkit appearing in this annual report are trademarks of NEC Corporation in the United States.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Pentium is a registered trademark, and MMX is a trademark of Intel Corporation.