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Toyo Denki Seizo K.K.
Kenzo Terashima, President
1st Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
6505
Tetsuto Iwaki
Operating Officer; General Manager,General Affairs Division
TEL.: +81-3-5202-8121

Toyo Denki Seizo Announces Details regarding Change of Officers
Tokyo, Japan, July 12, 2016 — Toyo Denki Seizo K.K. (hereinafter Toyo Denki) today announced that themeeting of the Board of Directors held on July 12, 2016 unofficially decided on the following changes to theCompany’s directors and operating officers. The changes are scheduled to be officially decided at the 155th
Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, which will be held on August 26, 2016, and the meeting of theBoard of Directors to be held after it.
1. Change of Directors(1) Newly appointed directors
Name
New position
Akira Watanabe
Director
Takashi Yamagishi

Current position
Operating Officer, General Manager ofManagement Planning Division
Advisor, Teijin Ltd.

Director (Outside)(2) Retiring director (and scheduled new appointment)
Name
Current position
Hiroshi TsuchidaDirector, Advisor

To be appointed a Special Advisor

2. Change of Operating Officers(1) Newly appointed senior operating officers
NameNew position
Kenji Tanimoto
Senior Operating Officer
Yuji Nagano

Senior Operating Officer(2) Newly appointed operating officer
NameNew position
Yukimasa Tanabe
Operating Officer

Current position
Operating Officer, General Manager ofFinancial Affairs Division
Operating Officer; Deputy General Manager ofIndustry Business Unit; and Works Manager,
Industry Business Unit

Current position
General Manager of Osaka Sales Division andNagoya Sales Division1(3) Retiring operating officer (and scheduled new appointments)
Name
Current position
Hitoshi Katayama
Operating Officer
To be appointed Senior Managing Director,
Toyosangyo K.K.
The areas of responsibility and duties of the directors and operating officers will be determined at themeeting of Board of Directors following the General Meeting of Shareholders.
3. OtherSee Appendix 1 for the career summary of the new Director.
See Appendix 2 for the career summary of the new Outside Director.
The organization of directors and officers after the 155th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders isscheduled to be as follows.
Directors
President, Representative Director

Kenzo Terashima

Senior Managing Director, Representative Director
Senior Managing Director

Masami TsuchiyaHiroshi Shimotakahara

Director
Director

Hiroyuki Arai
Kenichi Gotoh

Director

Akihiko Ishii

Director
Outside Director

Akira Watanabe
Hirokazu Chinone

Outside Director

Takashi Yamagishi

Auditors
Standing Statutory Auditor

Hiroshi Hamao

Standing Statutory Auditor
Statutory Auditor

Yoshihiko Yoshino
Toshio Ikeda

Statutory Auditor

Eiichi Suzuki

Operating Officers
Senior Operating Officer

Shuji Horie

Senior Operating Officer

Yoshifumi Otsubo

Senior Operating Officer

Kenji Tanimoto

Senior Operating Officer

Yuji Nagano

Operating Officer
Operating Officer

Isami Takase
Toshihiko Akihiro

Operating Officer

Tetsuto Iwaki

Operating OfficerYukimasa Tanabe

2(Appendix 1)
Career Summary
Name:Akira Watanabe

Date of birth

November 22, 1959

Major positions
1982

Joined Toyo Denki Seizo K.K.

2000

Chief of Development Department, Transportation Factory, Transportation
Business Division

2002

Business Creation Group Leader, Development Division

2003

Assistant Manager, Transportation Engineering Group, Yokohama Works,
Manufacturing Division

2005

Control Design Group Manager, Transportation Factory, Yokohama Woks,
Manufacturing Division

2008

Assistant Director, Research Center

2011

EV System Group Manager, Business Development Division
Assistant Manager, Business Development Division

2012

Assistant Manager, Business Development Division

2013

General Manager, Business Development Division

2015

Operating Officer, and General Manager, Management Planning Division(position currently held)

Number of shares owned

4,911

3

(Appendix 2)Career Summary
Name:Takashi Yamagishi

Date of birthAugust 3, 1944

Major positions
1970

Joined Teijin Ltd.

1996

President, Teijin DuPont Films S.A.

2004

General Manager, Film Business Group
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Teijin DuPont Films, Global Joint
Venture2005

Managing Director and Chief Engineering Officer, Teijin Ltd.

2006

Senior Managing Director

2008

Director and Vice President

2009

Representative Director and Vice President

2010

Executive Advisory Engineer2012

Advisor (position currently held)

Public service positions
2005–2008

Chairman, Sub-committee on Promoting Regulatory Reform, Committee on
Administrative Reform, Keidanren

2008–2010

Vice President, Chemical Society of Japan

2010–2012

Vice President, Society of Polymer Science, Japan

2011–2013

Auditor, Chemical Society of Japan

2012–2014

Auditor, Society of Polymer Science, Japan

2010–2013

Vice Chairperson, Green Productivity Advisory Committee, Asian Productivity
Organization4