April

 2016  

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

Yes

No

Date….

 Shinichi Aoyama

 Deputy Senior General Manager

 Group Management Center

 Canon Inc.

Document Name:

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

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

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 115th Business Term (the “Ordinary General Meeting”) of the Company held at March 30, 2016.

Description of Report

Date on which the Ordinary General Meeting was held:

March 30, 2016

Details of the Matters to be Resolved:

Item No.1: Dividend from Surplus

Matters concerning allocation of dividend and its total amount:

75.00 yen per one common share of the Company

Total amount of dividend      81,905,446,800 yen

Effective date of the dividend from surplus:

March 31, 2016

Item No.2: Election of Six Directors

Item No.3: 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

Toshizo Tanaka

Shigeyuki Matsumoto

Masaya Maeda

Kunitaro Saida

Haruhiko Kato

Item No.3

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 1 and 3, a majority vote of the shareholders who are entitled to vote present at the Ordinary General Meeting;

For Item 2, a majority vote of the shareholders present at the Ordinary General Meeting who hold shares representing in aggregate not less than one-third (1/3) of the voting rights of all shareholders who are entitled to vote.

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 and whose intention to approve or disapprove the propositions or abstain from the vote could not be ascertained, were not counted.