[TRANSLATION]
January 29, 2010
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: 052-564-2549)
CHANGE OF OFFICERS
At the meeting of the Board of Directors of Central Japan Railway Company (the “Company”)
held today, the Company resolved that directors with titles as of April 1, 2010, shall change asfollows.

1.

Change of Directors with Titles
Name
Masayuki Matsumoto
Yoshiomi Yamada

2.

New Title
Vice Chairman andRepresentative Director
President and Representative
Director

Current Title
President and Representative
Director
Executive Vice President andRepresentative Director

Responsibilities Directors and Corporate Auditors (Reference)
Please refer to the Exhibit attached hereto.

Exhibit
January 29, 2010
Central Japan Railway Company
RESPONSIBILITIES OF DIRECTORS ANDCORPORATE AUDITORSThe responsibilities of Directors and Corporate Auditors on or after April 1,2010 shall be asfollows:
Chairman andRepresentative Director

Yoshiyuki Kasai

Vice Chairman andRepresentative Director

Masayuki Matsumoto

President andRepresentative Director

Yoshiomi Yamada

Executive Vice President Koushi Akutsu
and Representative
Director

In charge of the Finance
Department, the Property
Management Department, theMarketing Division, theShinkansen Operations Divisionand the Kansai Branch Office

Executive Vice President Toyonori Noda
and Representative
Director

In charge of the Technology
Divisions (including the Tokaido
Shinkansen 21st Century
Division), the Transportation
Safety Department, theConventional Lines Operations
Division and the Shizuoka
Branch Office

Executive Vice President Kouei Tsugeand RepresentativeDirector

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

Senior Executive
Director

Tsutomu Morimura

Designated Director General of
the General Technology Division

Senior Executive
Director

Junichi Hirasawa

Designated Director General of
the Business Promotion Division

Senior Executive

Mitsuru Nakamura

Designated Director General of-2-

Director

the Conventional Lines
Operations Division

Executive Director

Shin Kaneko

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

Executive Director

Naotoshi Yoshikawa

Designated Director General of
the Shinkansen OperationsDivision

DirectorYukihiro Masuda

Designated Director General of
the Tokaido Shinkansen 21stCentury Division

DirectorKatsumi Miyazawa

Designated General Manager of
the Public Relations Department

DirectorTadashi Morishita

Designated General Manager of
the Construction Department

Director

Yoshito Tsubouchi

Designated General Manager ofthe Administration Department

Director

Yoshiki Suyama

Designated General Manager of
the Personnel Department

Director

Hidenori Fujii

Designated General Manager of
the Finance Department

Director

Sumio Atsuchi

Designated Director General of
the Marketing Division

Director

Hideyuki Shoji

Designated General Manager of
the Transportation SafetyDepartment

Director (Part-time)

Fujio Cho

(Chairman and Representative
Director of Toyota MotorCorporation)

Director (Part-time)

Kenji Koroyasu(Attorney-at-law)Director (Part-time)

Toshio Hayakawa(Counsel for Toho Gas Co., Ltd.)

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

Masayuki Kono
Takaharu Kachi-3-

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

Harumi Umeda
Hiromu Emi
Shigeo Kifuji(Attorney-at-law)*Yoshiomi Yamada, President and Representative Director, will be in charge of the Corporate
Planning Division, the Tokaido Shinkansen 21st Century Division and the Business Promotion
Division.

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Masayuki Matsumoto
Born on April 14, 1944

Home City

Mie Prefecture

March 1967

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Nagoya University

April 1967

Joined the Japanese National Railways

March 1987

General Manager of the Administration Department of the Shinkansen
General Bureau of the Japanese National Railways

April 1987

Joined the Central Japan Railway Company, General Manager of theAdministration Department of the Shinkansen Services Division

February 1988

General Manager of the Supervision Department of the Shinkansen
Operations Division of the Central Japan Railway Company

March 1989

General Manager of the Personnel Department of the Central Japan
Railway Company

June 1992

Director, Manager of the Secretariat of the Central Japan Railway
Company

June 1996

Executive Director of the Central Japan Railway Company

June 1998

Senior Executive Director of the Central Japan Railway Company

June 2000

Executive Vice President and Representative Director of the Central
Japan Railway Company

June 2004

President and Representative Director of the Central Japan Railway
Company (current position)-5-

ResumeYoshiomi Yamada
Born on January 7, 1949

Home City

Tokyo

June 1971

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo

July 1971

Joined the Japanese National Railways

August 1983

Assistant to the Employee Relations Section of the Employee Relations
Bureau of the Japanese National Railways

April 1987

Joined the Central Japan Railway Company, Manager of the Labor
Section of the Administration Department

February 1988

Manager of the Personnel Section of the Personnel Department andManager of the Labor Section of the Personnel Department of the Central
Japan Railway Company

March 1989

General Manager of the Tokyo Project Department of the Corporate
Planning Division of the Central Japan Railway Company

June 1992

Assistant Manager of the Secretariat of the Central Japan Railway
CompanyJune 1994

General Manager of the Personnel Department of the Central Japan
Railway Company

June 1996

Director, General Manager of the Personnel Department of the Central
Japan Railway Company

June 1998

Director, Director General of the Corporate Planning Division of theCentral Japan Railway Company

June 1999

Executive Director, Director General of the Corporate Planning Divisionof the Central Japan Railway Company

June 2002

Senior Executive Director, Director General of the Business Promotion
Division of the Central Japan Railway Company

June 2004

Executive Vice President and Representative Director of the Central
Japan Railway Company-6-June 2009

Executive Vice President and Representative Director of the Central
Japan Railway Company, Assistant to President (general) and in charge ofthe Corporate Planning Division, the Tokaido Shinkansen 21st Century
Division and the Business Promotion Division (current position)-7-