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 January30, 2004
 Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
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| Outside Contract of Distribution Work |   
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| Torii Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.("Torii"; Head 
Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo. President: Norihiko Matsuo) has today (30 Jan. 2004) agreed 
with Mitsubishi Logistics Corporation. ("MLC"; Head Office: 
Chuo-ku, Tokyo. President: Naoshi Ban) to the arrangement that Torii will entirely 
contract distribution work related to Torii's pharmaceutical products with 
MLC. 
 Torii's two distribution centers, one in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, and the 
other, in Ibaragi, Osaka Prefecture, will be transferred to the distribution centers 
(Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, and Ibaragi, Osaka Prefecture) owned and operated 
by MLC. Taking this opportunity, Torii will contract to MLC all the work of receipt 
and storage of Torii's pharmaceutical products and their distribution to 
the wholesalers.
 
 This contract arrangement will enable Torii to avoid new expenditure for facilities, 
reduce distribution cost, and to improve the distribution service through,e.g. 
shortening of lead-time for distribution.
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| (Reference) |   
| Corporate Profile of Mitsubishi Logistics Corporation.
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| Date of establishment: | April 1887 |   
| Location of Head Office: | 19-1 Nihonbashi 1-Chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo |   
| Representative: | Naoshi Ban, President |   
| Capital: | ¥15,495 million. (as of March 31, 2003) |   
| Business: | Warehousing; Harbor transportation; 
Land transportation; Marine transportation; Handling of land, marine and air transportation 
and related agency business; Combined transportation by land, sea and air, as 
well as brokerage and agency business related thereto; Customs brokering; Buying, 
selling and leasing of transportation and loading equipment, and agency business 
related thereto ; Developing and selling of logistics information systems and 
related operation and management etc. Buying, selling, leasing, intermediary business and management of real estate; 
Contracting of construction work, its design and supervision; Operation of parking 
lots etc.
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| Corporate Profile of Torii Pharmaceutical 
Co., Ltd. |   
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| Date of establishment: | November 1921 |   
| Location of Head Office: | 4-1 Nihonbashi 3-Chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo |   
| Representative: | Norihiko Matsuo, President |   
| Capital: | ¥5,190million (as of March 31,2003) |   
| Business: | Production, sales, import and 
export of pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and reagents, and real estate 
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