New appointment of Directors and Officers
May 19, 2017
Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Tokyo) today announced that theMeeting of its Board of Directors has decided to nominate new Directors and Officers
at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting and the subsequent Meeting of the Board ofDirectors on June 29, 2017.

New appointment of Directors and Officers
1. Retiring Representative Director
Name

Current title

Makoto Kimura

Chairman of the Board
Representative Director

2. Nominees for New Directors
Name

Proposed title

Current title

Takumi Odajima

Senior Vice President
DirectorCorporate Vice President

Satoshi Hagiwara Senior Vice President
Director

Corporate Vice President

3. Nominee for New Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
Name

Proposed title

Current title

Takaharu Honda

Director
Senior Vice President
Full-time Audit and Supervisory Director
Committee Member

4. Nominees for Promoting Officers
Name

Proposed title

Current title

Takumi Odajima

Senior Vice President
Director
General Manager of Human
Resources & Administration
Division

Corporate Vice President
Corporate Strategy Division,
Deputy General Manager of
Human Resources &Administration Division

Satoshi Hagiwara Senior Vice President
Director
General Manager of Finance &Accounting Division, Deputy
General Manager of Corporate
Strategy DivisionCorporate Vice President
General Manager of Finance &Accounting Division

5. Nominee for New Officer
Name

Proposed title

Current title

Tetsuya Morimoto

Corporate Vice President
Department Manager ofBusiness Planning Department,
Imaging Business Unit

Department Manager ofBusiness Planning
Department, Imaging
Business Unit

6. Retiring Directors
Name

Current title

Makoto Kimura

Chairman of the Board
Representative Director

Hiroshi Ohki

Senior Vice President
Director

Tomohide Hamada

Senior Vice President
DirectorToshiyuki Masai

Director

Norio Hashizume

Director
Full-time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member* Makoto Kimura will be nominated as Corporate Advisor.
* Hiroshi Ohki, Toshiyuki Masai and Norio Hashizume will be nominated asCounselor.
* Tomohide Hamada will be re-nominated as Senior Vice President.

7. Retiring Officers
Name

Current title

Hiroshi Ohki

Senior Vice President
Director
General Manager of Core Technology Division, Officer incharge of Intellectual Property Division, Optical Engineering
Division and Encoder Business Unit

Takaharu Honda

Senior Vice President
Director
General Manager of Human Resources & Administration
Division

Masao Nakajima

Senior Vice President
General Manager of Industrial Metrology Business Unit

Tsuneyoshi Kon

Corporate Vice President
General Manager of Business Support Division2Atsumi Nakamura

Corporate Vice President
General Manager of Microscope Solutions Business Unit

Yojiro Tanii

Corporate Vice President
General Manager of Customized Products Business Unit

Tetsuya Yamamoto Corporate Vice PresidentCore Technology Division* Takaharu Honda will be nominated as Director, Full-time Audit andSupervisory Committee Member.
* Hiroshi Ohki, Masao Nakajima, Tsuneyoshi Kon, Atsumi Nakamura andYojiro Tanii will be nominated as Counselor.
* Tetsuya Yamamoto will be nominated as Advisor.

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