Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are Fidelity Japanese Values PLC attached:ii 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): An acquisition or disposal of voting rights Y An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments An event changing the breakdown of voting rights Other (please specify): 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the FIL Limited notification obligation:iii 4. Full name of shareholder(s) See attached schedule (if different from 3.):iv 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or 16 November 2012 reached: v 6. Date on which issuer notified: 19 November 2012 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or 24% reached: vi, vii 8. Notified details: A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix Class/type Situation previous Resulting situation after the triggering of to the triggering transaction shares transaction Number Number Number Number of voting % of voting if possible of of of shares rights rights x using Shares Voting the ISIN Rights Indirect Direct xi Indirect Direct Indirect CODE xii GB0003328555 22,787,463 22,787,463 8,224,920 14,560,872 8.50 15.03 B: Qualifying Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction Type of Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting % of voting financial date xiii Conversion Period xiv rights that may be rights instrument acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted. C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi Resulting situation after the triggering transaction Type of Exercise Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting rights % of voting financial price date xvii Conversion instrument refers to rights xix, xx instrument period xviii 448,801 Nominal Delta Subscription 55p 28 February Shares 2013 0.46 Total (A+B+C) Number of voting rights Percentage of voting rights 23,234,593 23.99% 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi Custodian Total Management Company BBHISL NOMINEES LIMITED 8,224,920 FIL JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH 740,717 FIL FIL NOMINEE (SHAREHOLDINGS) LTD GENPEP 6,616,889 FIL BNY MELLON NOMINEES LTD 7,203,266 FIL JP MORGAN, BOURNEMOUTH 27,925 FIL FIL NOMINEE (SHAREHOLDINGS) LTD GENPEP 218,447 FIL BNY MELLON NOMINEES LTD 202,429 FIL Grand Total 23,234,593 Proxy Voting: 10. Name of the proxy holder: FIL Limited 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold: 19,593 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: 16 November 2012 13. Additional information: None 14. Contact name: Shelley Muller 15. Contact telephone number: fil-regreporting@fil.com, 01737 837092 B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable Full name Christopher Pirnie For and on behalf of FIL Investments International Contact address Kingswood Place, Millfield Lane, Lower Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 6RB Phone number & email 01737 837929 Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation) C: Additional information Issuer name: FIDELITY JAPANESE VALUES PLC Current ownership percentage: 23.99% Total shares held: 23,234,593 Issued share capital: 96,819,276 FIL Limited (FIL) is the parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, including FIL Fund Management Limited (FFML), FIL Investment Services (UK) Ltd (FISL), FIL Gestion (FIGEST), FIL Asset Management (Korea) Limited (FIAKL), FIL Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited (FIMHK), FIL Pensions Management (FPM), Fidelity Investments Japan (FIJ) and FIL Investments International (FII), investment managers for various non-US investment companies and institutional clients. Ordinary shares BBHISL Nominees Limited 8,224,920 shares (direct) JPMorgan, Bournemouth 740,717 shares (indirect) FIL Nominee (Shareholdings) Ltd GENPEP 6,616,889 shares (indirect) BNY Mellon Nominees Ltd 7,203,266 shares (indirect) Subscription shares: BBHISL Nominees Limited 0 shares (direct) JPMorgan, Bournemouth 27,925 shares (indirect) FIL Nominee (Shareholdings) Ltd GENPEP 218,447 shares (indirect) BNY Mellon Nominees Ltd 202,429 shares (indirect) i This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filed with the competent authority. ii Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifying the issuer or underlying issuer provided it is reliable and accurate. iii This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the person acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in the cases provided for in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the agreement referred to in DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the direct or indirect holder of financial instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rights are attached, or the direct or indirect holder of financial instruments having a similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments, as appropriate. In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h), the following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be mentioned: - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the person that acquires the voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the natural person or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the person holding the collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them, and person lodging the collateral under these conditions; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the person who has a life interest in shares if that person is entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and the person who is disposing of the voting rights when the life interest is created; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the parent undertaking and, provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under DTR 5.1, under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of those situations, the controlled undertaking; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the person that controls the voting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights at his discretion. iv Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This should be the full name of the shareholder or holder of financial instruments who is the counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2. v The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in the case of an off exchange transaction, the date of entering into an agreement. The date on which a threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which the acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect (see DTR 5.1.1R (3)). For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect. In the case of financial instruments with a similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments, the date on which a threshold is reached or crossed is the date of entering into the agreement. In the case of reaching or crossing a threshold passively as a result of a change in a delta adjusted holding or due to a change in the total voting rights of the issuer, the date should be that when the delta adjustment occurs or the total voting rights change rather than the date at which the agreement was entered into. vi Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous notification, In case the situation prior to the triggering transaction was below 3%, please state 'below 3%'. vii If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new holding is less than 3%. viii Direct and Indirect ix In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached 'direct holding' and voting rights 'indirect holdings', please split the voting rights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if there is no combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank. x If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new holding is below 3%. xi Voting rights attached to shares in respect of which the notifying party is a direct shareholder (DTR 5.1) xii Voting rights held by the notifying party as an indirect shareholder (DTR 5.2.1) xiii date of maturity / expiration of the financial instrument i.e. the date when the right to acquire shares ends. xiv If the financial instrument has such a period-please specify the period- for example once every three months starting from the [date] xv In case of notifying the aggregate of all voting rights deemed to be held as a result of holdings of instruments having a similar economic effect to (but not including) qualifying instruments on a nominal basis, please also provide the exercise price and either expiration date, or conversion period. If notifying on a nominal basis there is no requirement to then provide the delta-adjusted figures as well. xvi In case of notifying the aggregate of all voting rights deemed to be held as a result of holdings of instruments having a similar economic effect to (but not including) qualifying instruments on a delta-adjusted basis, please provide the expiration date/conversion period as appropriate. xvii expiration date of the financial instrument with a similar economic effect to a qualifying financial instrument i.e. the date when the instrument is due to be settled. xviii If the financial instrument has a conversion/settlement period-please specify the period- for example once every three months starting from the [date] xix Nominal and delta-adjusted basis (transitional period to run until 31 December 2009) xx If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new holding is below 3%. xxi The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification should also include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held, or deemed to be held, by each controlled undertaking, insofar as individually the controlled undertaking holds 3% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking is intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking. xxii This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.
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