Hitachi Cable, Ltd. will adopt a Disclosure Compliance Reporting System effective from October 1, 2003. Today's businesses must abide by laws and regulations as well as observe social norms and ethics in all their business and management activities. This decision was made in response to such demands.

Under the system, the Company's employees and others such as business partners and customers, may contact the Company's Compliance Group or the attorney commissioned as an outside contact if they have recognized improper or illegal conduct in the Company's business activities. Informants will be protected against all forms of unfavorable treatment they may encounter due to having made the report. The reported issue will be checked for accuracy by the Compliance Group, and, if necessary, corrective measures will promptly be taken by the Company. The group-executive of the Compliance Group will regularly report the progress of this system to the Board of Directors' Audit Committee.

This system is expected to improve the Company' s ability to govern itself by preventing improper or illegal conduct, and by taking quick remedial actions in the unlikely event that improper or illegal conduct actually occurs. This will also make the Audit Committee's auditing function more effective. Hitachi Cable promises that it will do its best to win the public's confidence.

Detailed information about this Disclosure Compliance Reporting System will be available soon on the Company's website.

Contacts for the Disclosure Compliance Reporting System:

1. In-house contact

Mailing address: Compliance Group, Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
1-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8166
Fax: +81-3-3214-5779
E-mail: compliance@mail.hitachi-cable.co.jp

2. Outside contact

Mailing address: Masao Fujii, Attorney at Law,
Iwata Godo Attorneys and Counsellors at Law 10F,
Marunouchi Building, 2-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6310
Fax: +81-3-3214-6254