May 13, 2016
For Immediate Release
Ryosan Company, Limited
Representative: Naoto Mimatsu, President
Listing Code No.: 8140
Listing: First Section, Tokyo Stock Exchange
Inquiries: Norihiko Takahashi
General Manager
Corporate Planning Headquarters
IR and Publicity Office
TEL: +81-3-3862-3816

Notice Concerning Nomination of Directors Following Transition to a Company
with an Audit and Supervisory Committee
Ryosan Company, Limited ("the Company") expects a transition to a company with an Audit and Supervisory
Committee, subject to an approval in the 60th Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting scheduled to be held on 23June, 2016. At today’s Board Meeting, the Board of Directors agreed on the list of director candidates to besubmitted for approval at the annual shareholders’ meeting, as listed below.
The decision of the Company regarding the selection of directors is expected to become official at the Board ofDirectors and the Audit and Supervisory Committee following approval at the annual shareholders’ meeting onJune 23, 2016.

Details
1. Selection of Directors (as of June 23, 2016)(1) Candidates for Directors (other than directors who are members of the Audit and Supervisory Committee)
Name
Naoto Mimatsu

New position

Current position

Representative Director
President
Director
Senior Managing Executive
Officer
General Manager, Sales
Planning and ControlHeadquarters

Hiroyuki Kurihara(Concurrent position held)
General Manager, East Japan
Marketing and Sales
Headquarters(Concurrent position held)
General Manager, Corporate
Planning Headquarters
1President and Representative Director

Senior Managing Director
General Manager, Corporate
Headquarters(Concurrent position held)
General Manager, Sales
Control Headquarters

Planning

Planningand(Concurrent position held)
General Manager, 3rd Domestic Marketingand Sales Headquarters

Kazunori Sato

Masahide Nishiura

Director
Senior Executive Officer
President and Representative
Director, SAXIS Co., Ltd.
Director
Senior Executive Officer
General Manage, Financeand Accounting
Headquarters

Director
General Manager, 1st Domestic Marketingand Sales Headquarters(Concurrent position held)
General Manager, 2nd Semiconductor
Business Headquarters
Director
General Manager, Finance and Accounting
Headquarters(2) Candidates for Directors who are members of the Audit and Supervisory Committee
NameIwao Sakamoto

Shinya Nambu

Fumiaki Sato

Hideki Kuwahata

Kosuke Nishimoto

Mahito Ogawa

New position
Director
Full-time Audit andSupervisory Committee
MemberDirector
Full-time Audit andSupervisory CommitteeMember (newly appointed)
Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member
Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member

Current position
Director
General Manager, Administrative
Headquarters

Director, Nippon Office Systems Ltd.

Outside Director

Outside Director

Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member
Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member (newlyappointed)

Outside Director

President, ACE Consulting Inc.

Nomination & Compensation Advisory Committee
Voluntarily the Company has a Nomination & Compensation Advisory Committee. This Committee
remains with of the following members after the transition to a company with an Audit and Supervisory
Committee.
NameNaoto Mimatsu

Iwao Sakamoto

New position

Current position

Representative Director
President
Director
Full-time Audit andSupervisory Committee
Member

2President and Representative Director

Director
General Manager, Administrative HeadquartersFumiaki Sato

Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member

Outside Director

Hideki Kuwahata

Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member

Outside Director

Kosuke Nishimoto

Outside Director
Audit and Supervisory
Committee Member

Outside Director

2. Directors to be resigned (as of June 23, 2016)
Name

New position

Toshifumi Sakata

Director, SAXIS Co., Ltd.

Koji Homma

Senior Executive Officer
General Manager,Electronic Components
Business Headquarters

Hiroshi Shibuya

Yasuo Yoshiizumi

Current position
Managing Director
General Manager, Engineering Headquarters

Senior Executive Officer
General Manager, 2ndSemiconductor BusinessHeadquarters
Senior Executive Officer
General Manager,
Electronic Equipment
Business Headquarters(Concurrent position held)
General Manager, 1st Semiconductor BusinessHeadquarters
Director
General Manager, International Marketing andSales Headquarters(Concurrent position held)
General Manager, Electronic Components
Business Headquarters
Director
General Manager, 2nd Domestic Marketingand Sales Headquarters
Director
General Manager, Electronic Equipment
Business Headquarters

In tandem with the Company’s transition to a company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee, the Full-time
Corporate Auditors, Harumitsu Seki and Takeshi Honda, along with Outside Auditors, Kotaro Nakano andToshiyuki Fujino, will resign their posts as of June 23, 2016.
List of Executive Officers to be selected after the transition to a company with an Audit and Supervisory
Committee will be announced officially pending deliberation.

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