Care Twentyone Corporation authorizes a Buyback plan.

CARE TWENTYONE CORPORATION is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the provision of nursing care services. The Company provides home care services, which include visiting nurse services, visiting bathing services, visiting rehabilitation services, day care services, short-term nursing home services, as well as specialized facilities care services, among others; care prevention services, which include care prevention visiting nurse services, care prevention visiting bathing services and care prevention short-term nursing home services, among others, as well as facility services for old folks' homes, old folks' nursing facilities and medical care facilities. In addition, the Company is engaged in the home care support business, the sale and rental of welfare equipment and the renovation of housing properties, as well as the education, agency and dispatching of nursing human resources.