Specialized Disclosure Report (sd)
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UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
SD
Specialized
Disclosure Report
Sony
Group Kabushiki Kaisha
(Exact
name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
SONY
GROUP CORPORATION
(Translation
of Registrant’s name into English)
Japan
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001-06439
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98-0359124
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(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation or organization)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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7-1,
KONAN 1-CHOME, MINATO-KU,
TOKYO
108-0075 JAPAN
(Address
of principal executive offices)
J.
Justin Hill, Senior Vice
President, Investor Relations Sony Corporation of America
25
Madison Avenue, 26th floor
New York, NY 10010-8601
Telephone:
212-833-6722
(Name
and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection 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
☒ 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, 2020.
Section
1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure
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Item 1.01
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Conflict
Minerals Disclosure and Report
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In
this document, Sony Group 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:
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/csr_report/sourcing/Sony_Group_Policy_for_Responsible_Supply_Chain_of_Minerals.pdf
Information
contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Form SD or Sony’s Conflict Minerals Report.
Item
1.02 Exhibit
Sony’s
Conflict Minerals Report required by Item 1.01 is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD and is publicly available at the following website:
https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/ConflictMineralsReport2020.pdf
Section
2 – Exhibits Item 2.01 Exhibits
Exhibit 1.01 – Conflict Minerals Report as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form.
SIGNATURES
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 duly authorized undersigned.
Sony
Group Corporation
(Registrant)
/s/
Shiro Kambe
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May
28, 2021
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Shiro
Kambe
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Senior
Executive Vice President, Corporate Executive Officer
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