New Slate of Directors, Auditors and Executive Officers

May 7, 2004

New Slate of Directors, Auditors and Executive Officers

Nikon Corporation (Shoichiro YOSHIDA, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer) announces that the board of directors today decided on its nominations for the new slate of Directors ,Auditors and Executive Officers to be proposed at the General Shareholders' Meeting to be held June 29, 2004 and the Board of Directors Meeting immediately following.

Director's Promotion
	Proposed title	Current title	Name
	*Executive Vice President, Member of the Board	Senior Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	KARIYA, Michio
	Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	MIYAUCHI,Norio
	Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	TOMINO, Naoki
*Representative director

New Director Nominees
	Proposed title	Current title	Name
	Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	Executive Officer	SUWA, Kyoichi
	Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	Executive Officer	KAWAI, Yoshimichi

New Executive Officer Nominees
	Proposed title		Name
	Executive Officer		KUMAZAWA, Masami
	Executive Officer		GOTO, Tetsuro
	Executive Officer		MORISHITA, Koji

Retiring Director
	Current title		Name
	Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer		KUROSAWA, Masami

Retiring Executive Officer
	Current title		Name
	Executive Officer		NISHIDA, Yoichi
	Executive Officer		SHIMIZU, Hisayuki

New Corporate Auditor Nominee
	Current title		Name
	Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer		KUROSAWA, Masami
	Executive Officer		SHIMIZU, Hisayuki
	Member of the Board & Executive Vice President, The Mitsubishi Corporation		KANI, Susumu

Retiring Corporate Auditor
	Current title		Name
	Standing Corporate Auditor		OBANA, Yuji
	Standing Corporate Auditor		IMAGAWA, Yoshiro
	Corporate Auditor	(Corporate Advisor, The Mitsubishi Corporation)	OKANO, Mitsutake

Yuji OBANA, Yoshiro IMAGAWA and Yoichi NISHIDA have been nominated as Counselors.

Susumu KANI is an outside corporate auditor as provided under Article 18, Clause 1 of the "Law for the Special Rules of Commercial Law concerning Stock Companies' Audits".

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