SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the month of June 2018
Commission File Number: 001-06439

SONY CORPORATION
(Translation of registrant's name into English)

1-7-1 KONAN, MINATO-KU, TOKYO, 108-0075, JAPAN
(Address of principal executive offices)

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
 
SONY CORPORATION
 
(Registrant)
   
   
 
By:  /s/  Hiroki Totoki
 
                (Signature)
 
Hiroki Totoki
 
Senior Executive Vice President and
 
Chief Financial Officer
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extraordinary Report

June 22, 2018

 

 

(TRANSLATION)

 

 

 

 

Sony Corporation

 

 

Note for readers of this English translation

On June 22, 2018, Sony Corporation (the “Corporation”) filed its Japanese-language Extraordinary Report (Rinji Houkokusho) (the “Report”) with the Director-General of the Kanto Financial Bureau in Japan in connection with the Corporation’s shareholders’ voting results for proposals acted upon at the 101st Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 19, 2018 pursuant to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan. This document is an English translation of the Report in its entirety.

 

  

1.Reason for submitting the Extraordinary Report

Given that resolutions were made for the PROPOSALS TO BE ACTED UPON at the 101st Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on June 19, 2018 (the “Meeting”), Sony Corporation (the “Corporation”) submits this Extraordinary Report under the provisions of Article 24-5, Paragraph 4, of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan and Article 19, Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2, Item 9-2, of the Cabinet Office Ordinance on Disclosure of Corporate Information, etc.

 

 

2.Matters reported

(1) Date when the Meeting was held:     June 19, 2018

 

(2) Proposals acted upon

Proposal 1: To elect 13 Directors.

Kenichiro Yoshida, Kazuo Hirai, Osamu Nagayama, Eikoh Harada, Tim Schaaff,

Kazuo Matsunaga, Koichi Miyata, John V. Roos, Eriko Sakurai, Kunihito Minakawa,

Shuzo Sumi, Nicholas Donatiello, Jr. and Toshiko Oka were elected as directors of the Corporation.

Proposal 2: To issue Stock Acquisition Rights for the purpose of granting stock options.

 

(3) Number of voting rights concerning the indication of “for,” “against” or “abstention” for each proposal; requirements for approving the proposals; and results of resolutions

 

1) Total number of voting rights

Number of shareholders with voting rights                      454,632

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Number of voting rights                                           12,633,989

 

2) The number of shareholders who have exercised their voting rights

Number of shareholders who have exercised their voting rights                  120,290

(Number of shareholders present at the Meeting                                          1,651 )

Number of voting rights exercised                    9,626,929 [Exercise Ratio      76.2%]

(Number of voting rights of the shareholders present at the Meeting

                                                                               19,879 [Exercise Ratio 0.2%] )

 

(Voting right)

Proposal For Against Abstention Ratio of favorable votes Results
Proposal 1  
Kenichiro Yoshida 9,302,211 300,436 4,657 96％ Approved
Kazuo Hirai 9,481,361 121,295 4,658 98％ Approved
Osamu Nagayama 9,533,074 69,560 4,683 99％ Approved
Eikoh Harada 9,569,906 32,705 4,705 99％ Approved
Tim Schaaff 9,569,637 33,181 4,500 99％ Approved
Kazuo Matsunaga 9,537,156 65,477 4,683 99％ Approved
Koichi Miyata 8,972,971 629,669 4,676 93％ Approved
John V. Roos 9,576,205 26,597 4,514 99％ Approved
Eriko Sakurai 9,578,620 24,035 4,661 99％ Approved
Kunihito Minakawa 9,541,951 60,675 4,688 99％ Approved
Shuzo Sumi 9,285,119 317,502 4,688 96％ Approved
Nicholas Donatiello, Jr. 9,542,287 60,534 4,495 99％ Approved
Toshiko Oka 9,096,265 506,381 4,669 94％ Approved
Proposal 2 8,507,886 1,094,572 6,770 88％ Approved

Notes:

1.Requirements for the approval of each proposal are as follows:

1) The resolution for Proposal 1 shall be adopted by a simple majority of the voting rights held by the shareholders present and voting at the Meeting (including postal and electronic voting) in a vote of shareholders holding in aggregate one-third (1/3) or more of the total number of voting rights.

2) The resolution for Proposal 2 shall be adopted by a two-thirds (2/3) majority of the voting rights held by the shareholders present and voting at the Meeting (including postal and electronic voting) in a vote of shareholders holding in aggregate one-third (1/3) or more of the total number of voting rights.

2.The “Ratio of favorable votes” was calculated by adding the number of voting rights held by the present and voting shareholders at the Meeting as the denominator.
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(4) Reason why a portion of the voting rights held by the shareholders present at the Meeting was not added to the number of voting rights:

The required majority approval for each proposal was met by aggregating the votes exercised

prior to the Meeting and votes of shareholders present at the Meeting of which the Corporation was able to confirm the indication as to each proposal. Therefore, of the voting rights held by shareholders present at the Meeting, the number of voting rights concerning the indication of “for,” “against” or “abstention” as to each proposal of which the Corporation was not able to verify was not tallied, except as explained in Note 2 to the table of 2.(3) 2) above.

 

 

 

 

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