FJV Fidelity Japan Trust Plc

Fidelity Japanese Values PLC (“the Company”)

Transactions in a close period

The Company wishes to notify the market that the closed period of the Company in relation to its annual results for the period ended 31 December 2016 will commence today and is anticipated to end no sooner than 21 March 2017.

The Company confirms that all inside information (as defined in the EU Market Abuse Regulation) which the Directors and the Company may have held has been notified to a regulatory information service.  Accordingly, in the absence of any new undisclosed inside information arising, the Company is not prohibited from dealing in its own securities during this closed period.

Natalia de Sousa

For and on behalf of FIL Investments International

Company Secretary

01737 837846

21 February 2017