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<div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><b>24. Subsequent Event</b>
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<div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced a massive earthquake
and tsunami off the Pacific coast of Northeastern Japan. The earthquake caused damage to inventories and buildings at manufacturing facilities primarily in the Company’s
Utsunomiya Plant, and Fukushima Canon Inc., a manufacturing subsidiary. In addition, certain distribution warehouses of the Company and Canon Marketing Japan Inc., a sales subsidiary, located in Northeastern Japan sustained damage to inventories. Production operations have been suspended at certain
plants of the Company and its manufacturing subsidiaries and Canon is currently taking action to resume operations.
Canon cannot estimate the effect of the earthquake on its consolidated results of operations and financial condition as of the issuance date of the consolidated financial statements.
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