[TRANSLATION]
May 18, 2009
To: Whom it may concern
Company Name: Central Japan Railway Company
Name of Representative: Masayuki Matsumoto
President and Representative Director(Code No. 9022, First Section of TSE, OSE and NSE)
Contact Person: Katsumi Miyazawa
General Manager of the Public Relations Department(Telephone Number: +81-52-564-2549)
CHANGE IN OFFICERS
At the meeting of the Board of Directors of Central Japan Railway Company (the “Company”)
held on May 18, 2009, the Company resolved that the appointment of a candidate for Director(one (1) person) and a candidate for Corporate Auditor (one (1) person) be proposed at the 22nd
ordinary general meeting of shareholders (to be held on June 23, 2009).
As of June 23, 2009, the makeup of the Directors, Corporate Auditors and Corporate Officers shallbe as follows.
1.

Appointment and Retirement of a Director and a Corporate Auditor(1)

Candidate for new Director (one (1) person)
Hideyuki Shoji
Designated General Manager of the Transportation Safety Department(currently a Corporate Officer, the Deputy Director General of the Shinkansen
Operations Division and the General Manager of the Transportation and Marketing
Department of the Shinkansen Operations Division)(2)

Candidate for new Corporate Auditor (one (1) person)
Hiromu Emi(currently an attorney-at-law, and formerly President of the Takamatsu High Court)(3)

Corporate Auditor to retire (one (1) person)
Tadahiko Nakamura

2.

Change of Responsibilities Shared among Directors
The responsibilities to be shared among Directors will be determined at a meeting of theBoard of Directors to be held after the 22nd ordinary general meeting of shareholders.
The details of the changes in responsibilities shall be as follows:Executive Vice
President andRepresentative Director

Yoshiomi Yamada

Assistant to President (general), in chargeof the Corporate Planning Division, theTokaido Shinkansen 21st Century
Division and the Business Promotion
Division (currently the Executive Vice
President and Representative Director,
and in charge of the Corporate Planning
Division, the Tokaido Shinkansen 21stCentury Division, the Finance
Department, the Property Management
Department and the Business Promotion
Division)

Executive Vice
President andRepresentative Director

Koushi Akutsu

In charge of the Finance Department, theProperty Management Department, theMarketing Division, the Shinkansen
Operations Division and the Kansai
Branch Office (currently the Executive
Vice President and RepresentativeDirector and the Director General of theShinkansen Operations Division, and incharge of the Marketing Division and theKansai Branch Office)NaotoshiYoshikawa

Designated Director General of theShinkansen Operations Division(currently the Executive Director and theGeneral Manager of the Transportation
Safety Department)

Executive Director

3.

Retirement of a Corporate Officer
Corporate Officer to retire (one (1) person)
Hideyuki Shoji(currently a Corporate Officer)[expected to be a Director of the Company as of June 23, 2009]4.

Responsibilities Shared among Directors and Corporate Auditors (Reference) --Exhibit 1 hereto

5.

Responsibilities Assigned to Corporate Officers (Reference) --- Exhibit 2 hereto-2-Exhibit 1May 18, 2009
Central Japan Railway Company
RESPONSIBILITIES SHARED AMONG DIRECTORS ANDCORPORATE AUDITORSAs of June 23, 2009, the responsibilities to be shared among Directors and Corporate Auditors
shall be as follows:
Chairman andRepresentative Director

Yoshiyuki Kasai

President andRepresentative Director

Masayuki Matsumoto

Executive Vice President Yoshiomi Yamada
and Representative
Director

Assistant to President (general) andin charge of the Corporate Planning
Division, the Tokaido Shinkansen
21st Century Division and theBusiness Promotion Division

Executive Vice President Koushi Akutsu
and Representative
Director

In charge of the Finance
Department, the Property
Management Department, theMarketing Division, the Shinkansen
Operations Division and the Kansai
Branch Office

Executive Vice President Toyonori Noda
and Representative
Director

In charge of all the technology
related divisions (including theTokaido Shinkansen 21st Century
Division), the Transportation
Safety Department, theConventional Lines Operations
Division and the Shizuoka Branch
OfficeExecutive Vice President Kouei Tsugeand Representative
Director

In charge of the Secretarial
Department, the Audit Department,
the Public Relations Department,the Administration Department, theLegal Affairs Department and the
Personnel Department

Senior Executive
Director

Tsutomu Morimura

Designated Director General of theGeneral Technology Division

Senior Executive
Director

Jun-ichi Hirasawa

Designated Director General of theBusiness Promotion Division-3-Senior Executive
Director

Mitsuru Nakamura

Designated Director General of theConventional Lines Operations
Division

Executive Director

Shin Kaneko

Designated Director General of the
Corporate Planning Division and in
charge of the Tokaido Shinkansen
21st Century Division

Executive Director

Naotoshi Yoshikawa

Designated Director General of theShinkansen Operations Division

DirectorYukihiro Masuda

Designated Director General of theTokaido Shinkansen 21st CenturyDivision

Director

Katsumi Miyazawa

Designated General Manager of the
Public Relations Department

DirectorTadashi Morishita

Designated General Manager of theConstruction Department

Director

Yoshito Tsubouchi

Designated General Manager of the
Administration Department

Director

Yoshiki Suyama

Designated General Manager of the
Personnel Department

Director

Hidenori Fujii

Designated General Manager of theFinance Department

Director

Sumio Atsuchi

Designated Director General of theMarketing Division

Director

Hideyuki Shoji

Designated General Manager of theTransportation Safety Department

Director (Non Full-time)

Fujio Cho(Chairman and Representative
Director of Toyota MotorCorporation)

Director (Non Full-time) Kenji Koroyasu(Attorney-at-law)Director (Non Full-time) Toshio Hayakawa(Adviser of Toho Gas Co., Ltd.)

Corporate Auditor(Full-time)
Corporate Auditor(Full-time)
Corporate Auditor(Full-time)

Masayuki Kono
Takaharu Kachi
Harumi Umeda-4-Corporate Auditor(Full-time)
Corporate Auditor

Hiromu Emi
Shigeo Kifuji(Attorney-at-law)-5-

Exhibit 2
May 18, 2009
Central Japan Railway Company

RESPONSIBILITIES ASSIGNED TOCORPORATE OFFICERS
As of June 23, 2009, the responsibilities to be assigned to Corporate Officers shall be as follows:
Corporate Executive
Officer

Masaki Seki

Designated General Manager ofthe Technology Research andDevelopment Department of theGeneral Technology DivisionCorporate Executive
Officer

Osamu Nakayama

Designated Director General of theShizuoka Branch Office

Corporate Officer

Takashi Ono

In charge of Economic Research,
Medical Affairs and Contracts(regarding Tokaido Shinkansen
Bypass)Corporate Officer

Noriyuki Shirakuni

Designated Director General of theMaglev Systems Development
Division of the Tokaido
Shinkansen 21st Century DivisionCorporate Officer

Takatoshi Yoshida

Designated Deputy General
Manager of the Construction
Department

Corporate Officer

Yutaka Osada

Designated Deputy Director
General of the Shinkansen
Operations Division and
Designated General Manager ofthe Electrical Engineering
Department of the Shinkansen
Operations DivisionCorporate Officer

Sumio Kudo

Designated Director General of theKansai Branch Office

Corporate Officer

Sakae Ishikawa

Designated Deputy General
Manager of the Technology
Research and Development
Department of the General
Technology DivisionCorporate Officer

Shun-ichi Kosuge

Designated General Manager of-6-

the Technology Planning
Department of the General
Technology DivisionCorporate Officer

Mamoru Uno

Designated Deputy Director
General of the Tokaido Shinkansen
21st Century DivisionCorporate Officer

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Designated Deputy Director
General of the Tokaido Shinkansen
21st Century Division and
Designated General Manager ofthe Tokyo Construction Branch ofthe Construction Department

Corporate Officer

Makoto Baba

Designated General Manager ofthe Legal Affairs Department

Corporate Officer

Kimiaki Tanaka

Designated Deputy Director
General of the Business Promotion
Division

Corporate Officer

Atsushi Suzuki

Designated General Manager ofthe Employee Training Center and
Designated General Manager ofthe Mishima Employee Training
Center-7-

[Candidate for new Director]
ResumeHideyuki Shoji
Born on March 7, 1955

Home City

Shizuoka Prefecture

March 1979

Graduated from Master Program of the School of Engineering of theUniversity of Tokyo

April 1979

Joined the Japanese National Railways

March 1985

Manager of Akita Engine depot of Akita Railroad Administration Bureauof the Japanese National Railways

April 1987

Joined the Central Japan Railway Company

March 1991

Manager in charge of the Technology Division of the Central Japan
Railway Company

June 1992

Manager in charge of the Labor Section of the Personnel Department ofthe Central Japan Railway Company

June 1995

Manager of the Personnel Section of the Supervision Department of theShinkansen Operations Division of the Central Japan Railway Company

June 1997

Manager of the Tokyo Operation of the Shinkansen Operations Divisionof the Central Japan Railway Company

July 2001

Manager of the Labor Section of the Personnel Department of the CentralJapan Railway Company

June 2002

Manager of the Personnel Section of the Personnel Department of theCentral Japan Railway Company

December 2003

General Manager of the Transportation and Marketing Department of theShinkansen Operations Division of the Central Japan Railway CompanyJune 2008

Corporate Officer, the Deputy Director General of the Shinkansen
Operations Division and the General Manager of the Transportation andMarketing Department of the Shinkansen Operations Division of theCentral Japan Railway Company (current position)-8-

[Candidate for new Corporate Auditor]
ResumeHiromu Emi
Born on August 24, 1943

Home City

Hyogo Prefecture

March 1967

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo

April 1969

Appointed as an Assistant Judge

April 1984Researcher for the Head of the Legal Affairs Section of the Japanese
National Railways

April 1987

Manager of the Legal Affairs Section of the Administration Department ofthe Japanese National Railways Settlement Corp.

June 1987

Judge of the Tokyo District Court

April 1990

Judge of the Tokyo District Court (Presiding Judge of the Division)

November 1991

Judge of the Yokohama District Court (Presiding Judge of the Division)

April 1995

Judge of the Tokyo District Court (Presiding Judge of the Division)

May 1998

Chief of the Niigata Family Court

September 1999

Judge of the Tokyo High Court (Presiding Judge of the Division)

May 2007

President of the Takamatsu High Court

August 2008

Retired as a judge

September 2008

Designated by the Central Japan Railway Company (current position)

October 2008

Registered as an attorney-at-law (current position)-9-