Notice Regarding Revision of Year End Dividend Forecast For Fiscal Year Period (95th Company Fiscal Period) Ending March 2007

For Print February 2, 2007 Listed Stock Name:Eisai Co., Ltd. Director and President & CEO:Haruo Naito Headquarters:4-6-10 Koishikawa Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Securities Code:4523 Listed Locations:First Sections of the Tokyo Stock Exchange & the Osaka Securities Exchange Inquiries:Akira Fujiyoshi Vice President Corporate communications, IR Phone: 81-3-3817-5120 Notice Regarding Revision of Year End Dividend Forecast For Fiscal Year Period (95th Company Fiscal Period) Ending March 2007 The updated forecast as to year-end dividend per share for the fiscal period ending March 2007 will be proposed for revision from previous forecast, in accordance with the decision made at the Board of Directors' Meeting on February 2, 2007. This revision will take effect subject to the resolution at the Board of Directors' Meeting scheduled in May 2007 after completion of statutory audit on financial documents for this fiscal year period. The details of the revision are noted below: 1.Reason for Revision Eisai is devoted to providing continuous and stable dividends based on the consolidated financial performance along with dividend on equity (DOE). Thus the Company plans to pay a fiscal year-end dividend of ¥65 per share, an increase of ¥10 per share over the previous forecast. Consequently the anticipated annual total dividend is expected to be ¥120 per share, combining interim and year-end dividends. 2.Contents of the Revision *You can scroll to the left or right here Dividends per share Interim Year-end Annual Total Previous forecast (October 31, 2006) - ¥55 ¥110 Revised forecast - ¥65 ¥120 Fiscal year ending March 2007 (Actual payout) ¥55 - - Previous fiscal year ended March 2006 (Actual payout) ¥40 ¥50 ¥90 Full text

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