Mr. John Proust reports

JAPAN GOLD PROVIDES CLARIFICATION ON UPCOMING ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING PROCEDURE

Japan Gold Corp. is providing an update, at the request of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and further to the Sept. 23, 2026, announcement of the Solidcore alliance and associated board member appointments. Two Solidcore nominees for the Japan Gold board, Victor Flores and Tania Tchedaeva, were appointed to the Japan Gold board of directors on Sept. 22, 2026, following the closing of the Solidcore alliance. The new directors were not included in the Japan Gold annual general meeting materials as they were appointed after the AGM materials had been published and distributed. Therefore, shareholders will be voting on the seven-person slate of incumbent directors at the coming Oct. 22, 2026, AGM, and following the AGM, Mr. Flores and Ms. Tchedaeva will be reappointed to the board, increasing the board from seven to nine members.

About Japan Gold Corp.

Japan Gold is a Canadian mineral company focused on the exploration and discovery of high-grade epithermal gold deposits across the main islands of Japan. The company holds a significant portfolio of tenements covering areas with known gold occurrences, history of mining, and prospective for high-grade epithermal gold mineralization in one of the most stable and underexplored countries in the world. The Japan Gold leadership and operational team of geologists, drillers and technical advisers has extensive experience exploring and operating in Japan and has a record of discoveries worldwide.

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