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

Trademarks

• NEC, C&C, and NEAX appearing in this semiannual report are trademarks of NEC Corporation in Japan and other countries.
• PC98-NX is a trademark of NEC Corporation in Japan.
• Express5800 is a trademark of NEC Corporation in the United States and other countries.
• Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.