OREANDA-NEWS. Hitachi, Ltd. announced its position and policy on decreasing investment unit on the stock exchanges in Japan as follows.

1. Position on Decreasing the Investment Unit
Hitachi recognizes that decreasing the investment unit is one of the important means of promoting the participation of wide variety of investors in the stock market and therefore creating the stable and vibrant stock market.

2. Policy on Decreasing the Investment Unit
Hitachi believes that its shares currently have sufficient liquidity. Hitachi will continue to carefully consider actions related to decreasing the investment unit from the perspectives of the liquidity of Hitachi shares, shareholder composition, associated costs and benefits, etc.