March

2019 

CANON INC.

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

30-2, Shimomaruko 3-Chome, Ohta-Ku, Tokyo 146-8501, Japan

(Address of principal executive offices)

Form 20-F

X

Form 40-F

Yes

No

X

Date….

March 29, 2019

 Sachiho Tanino

 General Manager

 Consolidated Accounting Division

 Canon Inc.

Document Name:

Places of Public Inspection of

the Extraordinary Report:

(2-1, Nihonbashi Kabuto-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)

Nagoya Stock Exchange, Inc.

(8-20, Sakae 3-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya)

Fukuoka Stock Exchange

(14-2, Tenjin 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka)

Sapporo Securities Exchange

(14-1, Minamiichijo-nishi 5-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo)

Reason for Filing

Canon Inc. (the “Company”) is filing this Extraordinary Report pursuant to Article 24-5, Paragraph 4 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and Article 19, Paragraph 2, Item 9-2 of the Cabinet Office Ordinance relating to the Disclosure of Details of Corporations, etc. to report the approval of resolutions at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders for the 118th Business Term (the “Ordinary General Meeting”) of the Company held at March 28, 2019.

Description of Report

Date on which the Ordinary General Meeting was held:

March 28, 2019

Details of the Matters to be Resolved:

Item No.1: Dividend from Surplus

Matters concerning allocation of dividend and its total amount:

80.00 yen per one common share of the Company

Total amount of dividend       86,379,985,840 yen

Effective date of the dividend from surplus:

March 29, 2019

Item No.2: Election of Six Directors

Item No.3: Election of Two Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Item No.4: Grant of Bonus to Directors

The number of voting rights concerning the indication of “for,” “against” or “abstention” for each item; Requirements for approving the items; and Results of resolutions

Item

    For      

    Against      

    Abstention      

    Results      

Item No.1

Item No.2

Fujio Mitarai

Masaya Maeda

Toshizo Tanaka

Toshio Homma

Kunitaro Saida

Haruhiko Kato

Item No.3

Hiroaki Sato

Yutaka Tanaka

Item No.4

Note:

Each of the number of “For,” “Against” and “Abstention” is the aggregate number of the voting rights a) exercised in advance by the day prior to the Ordinary General Meeting, and b) exercised by shareholders present at the Meeting (provided that such shareholders’ intention to approve or disapprove the propositions could be ascertained.)

The “Ratio of favorable votes” is the ratio of the following 1) to 2);

the aggregate number of votes in favor exercised in advance by the day prior to the Ordinary General Meeting, and those exercised by shareholders present at the Meeting (provided that such shareholders’ intention to approve the propositions could be ascertained.)

the total number of voting rights exercised in advance by the day prior to the Ordinary General Meeting and those of shareholders present at the Meeting.

The requirements for approval of each resolution are as follows:

For Item No.1 and 4, a majority of the votes of the shareholders present at the Ordinary General Meeting who are entitled to exercise voting rights;

For Item No.2 and 3, a majority of the votes of the shareholders present at the Ordinary General Meeting who hold shares representing in aggregate not less than one-third (1/3) of the votes of all shareholders entitled to exercise voting rights.

In this paragraph, each number of voting rights held by shareholders present at the Meeting includes the number of voting rights exercised in writing or by means of electronic transmission.

The aggregate number of a) voting rights exercised in advance by the day prior to the Ordinary General Meeting and b) voting rights exercised by shareholders present at the Meeting, and such shareholders’ intention to approve or disapprove the propositions could be ascertained, was sufficient to meet all requirements pursuant to the Corporation Law to approve all of the items. Accordingly, voting rights of shareholders present at the Ordinary General Meeting whose intention to approve or disapprove the propositions or abstain from the vote could not be ascertained, were not counted.