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Independent Directors* At the end of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholder held in June 2019

Katsumi Ihara

Cynthia Carroll

Joe Harlan

Share ownership: 300 shares

Share ownership: 1,000 shares

Share ownership: 300 shares

Term of office as Independent Director: 1 year

Term of office as Independent Director: 6 years

Term of office as Independent Director: 1 year

2005 Executive Deputy President, Representative Corporate Executive
Officer, Member of the Board, Sony Corporation2009 Executive Deputy President, Corporate Executive,Sony Corporation
Executive Vice President, Representative Director,
Sony Financial Holdings Inc.
2010 President, Representative Director, Sony Financial Holdings Inc.
2011 President, Representative Director, Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
2015 Chairman, Director, Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
(Retired in June 2017)2016 Chairman, Director, Sony Financial Holdings Inc.
(Retired in June 2017)2018 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

1991 General Manager, Foil Products, Alcan Inc.
1996 Managing Director, Aughinish Alumina Ltd., Alcan Inc.
1998 President, Bauxite, Alumina and Speciality Chemicals, Alcan Inc.
2002 President & CEO, Primary Metal Group, Alcan Inc.
2007 CEO, Anglo American plc. (Retired in April 2013)2013 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

1999 Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lighting Business,
General Electric Company (USA)2001 Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis,
3M Company (USA)2002 President and Chief Executive Officer, Sumitomo 3M Ltd.
2004 Executive Vice President, Electro and Communications Business,
3M Company (USA)2009 Executive Vice President, Consumer and Office Business,
3M Company (USA)2011 Executive Vice President, Performance Materials,
The Dow Chemical Company (USA)2012 Executive Vice President, Chemicals, Energy and Performance
Materials, The Dow Chemical Company (USA)2014 Chief Commercial Officer and Vice Chairman, Market Business,
The Dow Chemical Company (USA)2015 Vice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer, The Dow Chemical
Company (USA) (Retired in August 2017)2018 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

George BuckleyLouise Pentland

Harufumi Mochizuki

Share ownership: 5,300 shares

Share ownership: 700 shares

Share ownership: 2,900 shares

Term of office as Independent Director: 7 years

Term of office as Independent Director: 4 years

Term of office as Independent Director: 7 years

1993 Chief Technology Officer, Motors, Drives and Appliances,
Emerson Electric Company
1994 President, US Electrical Motors, Emerson Electric Company
1997 President, Mercury Marine Division andCorporate Vice President, Brunswick Corporation
2000 President and Chief Operating Officer, Brunswick Corporation,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brunswick Corporation2005 Chairman of the Board, President andChief Executive Officer, 3M Company
2012 Executive Chairman of the Board,
3M Company (Retired in May 2012)
Chairman, Arle Capital Partners Limited(Retired in December 2015)
Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

1997 Admitted as a Solicitor (UK)2001 Senior Legal Counsel, Nokia Networks,Nokia Corporation2007 Vice President, Acting Chief Legal Officer andHead of IP Legal, Nokia Corporation
2008 Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer,
Nokia Corporation2009 Admitted to New York State Bar Association2011 Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer,
Nokia Corporation (Retired in May 2014)2015 General Counsel, PayPal, eBay Inc.
Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer,
PayPal Holdings, Inc.
2016 Executive Vice President,
Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer,
PayPal Holdings, Inc. (currently in office)

Chairman of the Board
Chair of the Nominating Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee
2002 Director-General for Commerce and Distribution Policy,
Minister’s Secretariat,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (“METI”)
2003 Director-General, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, METI
2006 Director-General, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI
2008 Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
2010 Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japan(Retired in September 2011)
Senior Advisor to the Board, Nippon Life Insurance Company(Retired in April 2013)2012 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2013 President and Representative Director,
Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment &Consultation Co., Ltd. (Currently in office)* The "independent directors" are the directors who fulfill the qualification requirements to be outside directors as provided for the Companies Act of Japan and also meet the independence criteria defined by the Company and those
provided by Japanese stock exchanges where the Company is listed.

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Audit Committee
Compensation Committee
Representative Executive Officer

Takatoshi Yamamoto

Hiroaki Yoshihara

Share ownership: 7,700 shares

Share ownership: 1,800 shares

Term of office as Independent Director: 3 years

Term of office as Independent Director: 5 years

1995 Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Japan Limited
1999 Managing Director and Vice Chairman,
Tokyo Branch, Morgan Stanley Japan Limited
2005 Managing Director and Vice Chairman,
UBS Securities Japan Co., Ltd.
2009 Managing Director, CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
2011 Advisor, CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. (Retired in June 2012)2016 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

Chair of the Audit Committee
1978 Joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
1996 National Managing Partner, the Pacific Rim Practice,
KPMG LLP
1997 The Board Member, KPMG LLP
2003 Vice Chairman and Global Managing Partner,
KPMG International (Retired in April 2007)2014 Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

Directors At the end of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholder held in June 2019

Hiroaki NakanishiToyoaki Nakamura

Toshiaki Higashihara

Share ownership: 70,600 shares

Share ownership: 16,200 shares

Share ownership: 69,900 shares1970 Joined Hitachi, Ltd.
2003 Vice President and Executive Officer
2004 Senior Vice President and Executive Officer
2005 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc.
(Retired as CEO in March 2009)2006 Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
(Retired in December 2006)
2009 Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
Chairman of the Board, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc.
(Retired in March 2010)2010 President, Hitachi, Ltd., President and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2014 Chairman & CEO and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2016 Executive Chairman and Representative Executive Officer,Hitachi, Ltd.
2018 Executive Chairman and Executive Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.

1975 Joined Hitachi, Ltd.
2006 General Manager, Finance Department
2007 Senior Vice President and Executive Officer
Senior Vice President, Executive Officer and Director
2009 Senior Vice President and Executive Officer
2012 Executive Vice President and Executive Officer(Retired in March 2016)2016 Director

1977 Joined Hitachi, Ltd.
2007 Vice President and Executive Officer (Retired in March 2008)
2008 President, Hitachi Power Europe GmbH2010 President and Chief Executive Officer,Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
President and Representative Director,Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
2011 Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
2013 Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
2014 President & COO, Hitachi, Ltd.
President & COO and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.
2016 President & CEO and Director, Hitachi, Ltd.

Each Committee is composed of the following members (chair names underlined)
Nominating Committee: Harufumi Mochizuki, Cynthia Carroll, Hiroaki Yoshihara, Hiroaki Nakanishi
Audit Committee: Hiroaki Yoshihara, Katsumi Ihara, Harufumi Mochizuki, Takatoshi Yamamoto, Toyoaki Nakamura
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Executive Officers As of June 30, 2019

President & CEO

Executive Vice Presidents and Executive Officers

Toshiaki Higashihara*

Masakazu Aoki*

Keiji Kojima*

Keiichi Shiotsuka*

Hideaki Takahashi*

Overall management

Assistant to the President (businessfor industry & distribution sectors,water & environment business, andindustrial products business)

Assistant to the President (smart life &ecofriendly systems business, automotive
systems business, and healthcarebusiness) and smart life & ecofriendly
systems business

Assistant to the President (systems& services business and defense systemsbusiness), systems & services businessand social innovation business promotion

Assistant to the President (coststructure reform and supply chain
management), cost structurereform and supply chain
management (MONOZUKURI andquality assurance)

Senior Vice Presidents and Executive Officers

Alistair Dormer*

Toshikazu Nishino*Atsushi Oda

Yoshihiko Kawamura

Kenichi Kokubo

Assistant to the President (buildingsystems business, and railway systemsbusiness)

Assistant to the President(nuclear energy business andenergy business)

Nuclear energy business andenergy business

Management strategies, investment
strategies, and strategies fornext-generation business

Regional strategies (China)

Setsuo Shibahara

Hideaki Seki

Yoshitaka Tsuda*

Hidenobu Nakahata*

Mitsuaki Nishiyama*Services & platforms business

Building systems business

Marketing & sales, regional
strategies, and social innovation
business promotion

Corporate communications,legal matters, risk management,
corporate auditing, and human capital

Finance and corporate
pension system

Vice Presidents and Executive Officers
Keiichi Akino

Jun AbeHitoshi Ito

Kenji Urase

Ryuichi Otsuki

Marketing & sales(business for financial institutions,government, public corporationand social infrastructure systems,
and defense systems business)

Business for industry & distribution sectors

Governments & external relations

Energy business

Investment strategies

Kohei Kodama

Norihiro Suzuki

Yoji Takeuchi

Hidetoshi Takehara

Toshiaki TokunagaLegal matters, risk management,
and corporate auditing

Research & development

Marketing & sales(business for industry & distributionsectors, water & environment business,building systems business, railway
systems business and healthcarebusiness)

Nuclear energy business

Services & platforms business

Osamu Naito

Kojin Nakakita

Katsuya Nagano

Seiichiro Nukui

Yasushi Nomura

Governments & external relations,
CSR & environmental strategy andexecutive support

Regional strategies (APAC)

Business for government,
public corporation, and social
infrastructure systems

Business for industry &distribution sectors

Information technology strategies

Andrew Barr

Kentaro Masai

Shinya Mitsudomi

Masashi Murayama

Mamoru Morita

Railway systems businessSupply chain management(MONOZUKURI and quality assurance)

Railway systems businessSupply chain management(procurement)

Management strategies

Tsugio Yamamoto

Takashi Yoda

Masaya WatanabeBusiness for financial institutions

Marketing & sales (nuclear energybusiness and energy business)

Information security management and cost
structure reform

Executive Officer
Hiroaki Nakanishi
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Note: Executive officers are listed by position and in Japanese alphabetical order within each grouping.
* Denotes executive officers who are representative executive officers.