Matters regarding MHFG's shares

Number of Issued Shares

Common Stock	15,181,366,260
Eleventh Series Class XI Preferred Stock	914,752,000
Thirteenth Series Class XIII Preferred Stock	36,690,000

Notes:

1.As a result of Capital Increase by way of Public Offering of Common Stock with the payment date set to be Thursday, Jul 23, 2009, there was an increase of 2,804,400,000 shares of Common Stock.
In addition, as a result of Capital Increase by way of Third-Party Allotment of Common Stock with the payment date set to be Wednesday, Aug 5, 2009, there was an increase of 195,600,000 shares of Common Stock.
2.As a result of a request for acquisition of 317,665,000 shares of the Eleventh Series Class XI Preferred Stock, there was an increase of 1,002,425,600 shares of Common Stock from Apr 1, 2009 to Sep 30, 2009.

(As of Sep 30, 2009)

(Classification by Types of Shareholders)

	Number of Shareholders	Number of Share Unit Held	% vs. Total # of Share Unit
National & Municipal Government	323	89,933	0.06
Financial Institutions	460	43,839,319	28.88
Securities Companies	114	5,917,003	3.90
Other Domestic Companies	15,022	25,623,393	16.88
Foreign Investors	1,319	34,128,137	22.48
Individuals and Others	655,670	42,190,487	27.80
Total	672,908	151,788,272	100.00
Shares constituting less than one (1) unit	-	2,539,060 shares	-

(As of Sep 30, 2009)

Classification by Types of Shareholders (Common Stock)

(As of Sep 30, 2009)

(Classification by Number of Shares Held)

	Number of Shareholders	% vs. Total # of Shareholders	Number of Share Unit Held	% vs. Total # of Share Unit
Over 5,000 Share Unit	1,542	0.23	106,812,176	70.37
1,000 - 5,000 Share Unit	5,123	0.76	9,070,770	5.98
500 - 1,000 Share Unit	8,049	1.19	5,114,140	3.37
100 - 500 Share Unit	99,649	14.81	17,113,380	11.27
50 - 100 Share Unit	97,826	14.54	6,078,482	4.00
10 - 50 Share Unit	377,214	56.06	7,299,482	4.81
5 - 10 Share Unit	30,605	4.55	190,036	0.13
1 - 5 Share Unit	52,900	7.86	109,806	0.07
Total	672,908	100.00	151,788,272	100.00
Shares constituting less than one (1) unit	-	-	2,539,060 shares	-

(As of Sep 30, 2009)

(Common Stock)

Name of Shareholders	Shares Held	Percentage of Shares Outstanding (%)
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trustee account)	727,567,100	4.79
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trustee account)	480,141,100	3.16
The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company	209,950,000	1.38
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trustee account4)	167,681,400	1.10
Trust & Custody Services Bank, Ltd. (Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company Retirement Benefit Trust Account re-entrusted by Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.)	137,000,000	0.90
SSBT OD05 OMNIBUS CHINA TREATY CLIENTS (Standing proxy agent: HSBC Limited)	134,916,262	0.88
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trustee account9)	133,868,100	0.88
Nippon Life Insurance Company	132,630,760	0.87
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, N.A. LONDON SECS LENDING OMNIBUS ACCOUNT (Standing proxy agent: Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.)	121,933,680	0.80
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd.	112,929,300	0.74

(As of Sep 30, 2009)

(Preferred Stock)

Name of Shareholders	Shares Held	Percentage of Shares Outstanding (%)
The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company	27,000,000	2.83
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company	25,000,000	2.62
UBS AG LONDON A/C IPB SEGREGATED CLIENT ACCOUNT (Standing proxy agent: Citibank Japan Ltd.)	20,625,000	2.16
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.	19,000,000	1.99
Marubeni Corporation	14,500,000	1.52
ITOCHU Corporation	10,000,000	1.05
Shiseido Company, Limited	10,000,000	1.05
SHIMIZU CORPORATION	10,000,000	1.05
Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.	10,000,000	1.05
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated	10,000,000	1.05
NIPPON EXPRESS CO., LTD.	10,000,000	1.05
FUKOKU MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY	10,000,000	1.05

Notes:

1.The numbers of Preferred Stock above are the total shares of Eleventh Series Class XI and Thirteenth Series Class XIII Preferred Stock.
2.Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. holds 320,466,000 shares of the Eleventh Series Class XI Preferred Stock as treasury shares. These shares are not included in the above table.

(As of Sep 30, 2009)

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