UNITEDSTATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM SD
SpecializedDisclosure Report
SonyKabushiki Kaisha
(Exact name ofRegistrant asspecified in itscharter)
SONYCORPORATION
(TranslationofRegistrant’sname into English)
Japan | 001-06439 | 98-0359124 |
(Stateorother jurisdiction ofincorporationororganization) | (CommissionFileNumber) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
7-1,KONAN 1-CHOME,MINATO-KU,
TOKYO108-0075JAPAN
(Address of principalexecutive offices)
J.JustinHill,SeniorVicePresident,Investor Relations
SonyCorporationof America
25MadisonAvenue, 26th floor
NewYork, NY10010-8601
Telephone: 212-833-6722
(Nameandtelephone number, including area code, ofthe persontocontact inconnection with this report.)
Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies
þ Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) (“Rule 13p-1”) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2017.
Section 1 –Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
In this document, Sony Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries are together referred to as “Sony,” “we,” or “our.”
Sony is engaged in the development, design, production, manufacture, offer and sale of various kinds of electronic equipment, instruments and devices for consumer, professional and industrial markets such as network services, game hardware and software, televisions, audio and video recorders and players, still and video cameras, mobile phones, and semiconductors. Sony’s primary manufacturing facilities are located in Asia including Japan. Sony also utilizes third-party contract manufacturers for certain products. Sony’s products and services are marketed throughout the world by sales subsidiaries and unaffiliated distributors as well as direct sales and offers via the internet. Sony is engaged in the development, production, manufacture, and distribution of recorded music and the
management and licensing of the words and music of songs as well as production and distribution of animation titles, including game applications based on the animation titles. Sony is also engaged in the production, acquisition and distribution of motion pictures and television programming and the operation of television and digital networks. Further, Sony is also engaged in various financial services businesses, including life and non-life insurance operations through its Japanese insurance subsidiaries and banking operations through a Japanese internet-based banking subsidiary.
Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Form SD (collectively, the “Conflict Minerals Rule”) provide that a company must file this Specialized Disclosure Report if it manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which one or more of the following minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of the products: cassiterite, columbite-tantalite (coltan) and wolframite; their derivatives tantalum, tin and tungsten; and gold (collectively, “3TG”). The Conflict Minerals Rule refers to these minerals as “conflict minerals” regardless of their geographic origin and whether or not they fund armed conflict.
Sony has determined that 3TG are necessary to the functionality or production of (i) certain electronic equipment, instruments, and devices for consumer, professional and industrial markets, and (ii) game hardware products manufactured by Sony or contracted to be manufactured by Sony for the period covered by this Specialized Disclosure Report. Thus, Sony conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) for our products. As a result of the RCOI, Sony determined it had insufficient information to conclude either (i) that there was no reason to believe that any of its necessary 3TG originated in the Covered Countries (as defined in the Conflict Minerals Report), or (ii) that all of its necessary 3TG came from recycled or scrap sources. Therefore, Sony was required to conduct due diligence pursuant to the Conflict Minerals Rule. Our RCOI and due diligence are described in the attached Conflict Minerals Report.
Sony maintains a conflict minerals policy that supports conflict-free sourcing. The link to this Policy is maintained on Sony’s website at:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/csr_report/sourcing/materials/index.html
Information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Form SD or Sony’s Conflict Minerals Report.
Item 1.02Exhibit
Sony’sConflict Minerals Report required by Item1.01 isfiled as Exhibit 1.01to this FormSD and ispublicly available at thefollowing website:
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/ConflictMineralsReport2017.pdf
Section 2 –Exhibits Item 2.01Exhibits
Exhibit 1.01 –Conflict Minerals Reportas requiredbyItems 1.01 and1.02 ofthis Form.
SIGNATURES
Pursuantto therequirements ofthe Securities ExchangeAct of 1934,the registrant hasduly caused thisreport tobesigned on its behalf by the dulyauthorized undersigned.
Sony Corporation
(Registrant) |
_/s/ Ichiro Takagi______ May 31, 2018
Ichiro Takagi
Corporate Executive Officer