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News Release
February 17, 2022

Notice of Director Candidates
Fuji Oil Holdings Inc. today announced that it has resolved to appoint Ms. Tomoko
Tsuji as a candidate for outside director (new appointment).
This matter will be formalized upon approval at the 94th Ordinary General Meeting ofShareholders to be held in June this year.

Director Candidates: FUJI OIL HOLDINGS INC.
Late June 2022 (to be planned)
Director candidates
President

Mikio Sakai

Director

Tomoki MatsumotoDirectorTakashi Kadota

Director

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Outside Director＊

Yuko Ueno

Outside Director＊

Hidenori Nishi

Outside Director＊

Toshiyuki Umehara

Outside Director

Shuichi Miyamoto

Outside Director＊

Tomoko Tsuji

（New）

（New）

＊Independent Director

Director candidates who will be Audit and Supervisory Committee members
Director, Audit and Supervisory
Committee member

Makoto Shibuya

Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory
Committee member*

Ryuta Uozumi

Outside Director, Audit and Supervisory
Committee member*

Hirohiko Ikeda＊Independent Director

A total of 12 candidates for directors (including candidates for directors who are Audit andSupervisory Committee members), 6 of whom will be independent outside directors.
Special Advisor to be retired
Hiroshi Shimizu

◆Newly Appointed Outside Service Candidate◆Name: Tomoko Tsuji(Date of birth) History(August 16, 1956)
Mar. 1979 Graduated from the Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto
University
Apr. 1979 Joined Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Feb. 1987 D. in Agriculture (former Institute for Applied Microbiological Chemistry, TokyoUniversity)
Mar. 1988 Postdoctoral fellow, The Rockefeller University, U.S.A.
Nov. 1988 Postdoctoral fellow, The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.
Dec. 1989 Sagami chemical research instituteMay 1999 FANCL CORPORATION
Jun. 2004 Executive Officer, General Manager of Central Research Laboratory, Fancl Co.
Jun. 2007 Director, Executive Officer, General Manager of Pharmaceutical Business Development
Office, and Representative Director of Quality & Safety Research Center Co.
May 2008 Advisor, Research Institute for Functional Food Science, Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
Apr. 2009 Advisor to Nippon Suisan Kaisha, General Manager of Research Institute forFunctional Food Science
May 2015 Executive Officer, General Manager of Material Development Department, Deputy
General Manager of Group Product Division, YOSHINOYA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Jun. 2020 Outside Director, SUNDRUG CO., LTD.

(Significant concurrent positions)Executive Officer, YOSHINOYA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Outside Director, SUNDRUG CO., LTD.
(Reason for the appointment)
After graduating from Kyoto University in 1979 and joining Ajinomoto as a new
graduate, Ms. Tomoko Tsuji worked for Ajinomoto, Fancl, Nippon Suisan Kaisha, andYoshinoya Holdings, Inc. and was consistently involved in research and productdevelopment on nutrition and functions of foods. She began her career as aresearcher of pharmaceutical seeds, and over the next 10 years, she was involved inresearch on various substances at universities in the United States and at the Sagami
Central Chemical Research Institute. As the company director at Fancl, she promoted
research, development and quality safety. At Nippon Suisan, as Director of the Life
Function Science Laboratory, she led research on the life functions of fish protein, EPAand DHA containing foods. Ms. Tsuji is currently an executive officer of Yoshinoya
Holding, where she is in charge of the "health" domain. We believe that theexperience of Ms. Tsuji, who has been engaged in research on food functions andproduct development with a background of academic knowledge for many years, andwho has also played a role in corporate management from a managerial perspective,
will be of great benefit to the Company.