Announcement Regarding Filing of Annual Report on

TOKYO, JAPAN --(Marketwired - July 09, 2017) - We, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. ( NYSE : MFG ), hereby announce that we filed an annual report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 7, 2017 (local time).

A copy of the Form 20-F annual report can be obtained from our website at https://www.mizuho-fg.com/investors/financial...rm20f.html . Holders of our American Depository Receipts may request a hard copy of the completed audited financial statements free of charge by emailing twenty.f@mizuhofg.co.jp . In the e-mail request, please include the following information:

・ your name; ・ your mailing address with zip/postal code; and ・ your e-mail address.