New Appointment of Directors, Officers and Auditors

May 16, 2014

Nikon Corporation (Makoto Kimura, President, Tokyo) today announced that the Meeting of its Board of Directors has decided to nominate new Directors, Officers and Auditors at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting and the subsequent Meeting of the Board of Directors on June 27, 2014.

1. Nominees for Promoting Directors

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Proposed Title	Name	Current Title
Representative Director & Chairman of the Board	Makoto Kimura	Representative Director, President & Member of the Board
Representative Director, President & Member of the Board	Kazuo Ushida	Representative Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Vice President

2. Nominees for New Directors

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Proposed Title	Name	Current Title
Director, Member of the Board & Senior Vice President	Takaharu Honda	Senior Vice President & General Manager of Corporate Planning Headquarters
Director, Member of the Board & Senior Vice President	Tomohide Hamada	Senior Vice President & General Manager of LCD Equipment Division, Precision Equipment Company

3. Nominees for Promoting Officer

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Proposed Title	Name	Current Title
Senior Vice President	Nobuyoshi Gokyu	Corporate Vice President, President & CEO of Nikon Inc.

4. Nominees for New Officers

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Proposed Title	Name	Current Title
Corporate Vice President	Yojiro Tanii	General Manager of Customized Products Division
Corporate Vice President	Kiyoyuki Muramatsu	Deputy General Manager of LCD Equipment Division , Precision Equipment Company & General Manager of Production Department, Precision Equipment Company
Corporate Vice President	Hiroyuki Hiraiwa	General Manager of Glass Division
Corporate Vice President	Tetsuya Yamamoto	General Manager of Development Headquarters, Imaging Company & General Manager of Fundamental Technology Development Department, Imaging Company
Corporate Vice President	Naoya Sugimoto	General Manager of Corporate Planning Department, Corporate Planning Headquarters
Corporate Vice President	Tadashi Nakayama	Managing Director of Nikon GmbH

5. Retiring Director

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Current Title	Name
Director, Member of the Board, Senior Vice President	Kenichi Kanazawa
Kenichi Kanazawa will be nominated as Counselor.

6. Retiring Officer

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Current Title	Name
Senior Vice President	Tsuneo Kosaka
Tsuneo Kosaka will be nominated as Counselor.

7. Nominee for New Auditor

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Proposed Title	Name	Current Title
Standing Corporate Auditor	Koichi Fujiu	General Manager of Internal Audit Department

8. Retiring Auditors

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Current Title	Name
Standing Corporate Auditor	Yoshiyuki Nagai
Corporate Auditor	Susumu Kani
Yoshiyuki Nagai will be nominated as Counselor.

Kazuo Ushida

Place of Birth :	Tokyo, Japan
Date of Birth :	January 25, 1953
Professional Experience (as of May 16, 2014) :	Jun. 2013 – Present Representative Director, Member of the Board, Senior Executive Vice President and President of Precision Equipment Company Jun. 2007– Jun. 2013 Director, Member of the Board, Senior Executive Officer and President of Precision Equipment Company Jun. 2005 – Jun. 2007 Managing Director, Member of the Board, Senior Executive Officer and President of Precision Equipment Company Jun. 2003 – Jun. 2005 Operating Officer and General Manager of Development Headquarters of Precision Equipment Company Jan. 2003 – Jun. 2003 General Manager of Development Headquarters of Precision Equipment Company May 1998 – Jan. 2003 General Manager of 2nd Designing Department of Optical Designing Headquarters Apr. 1975 Joined Nippon Kogaku K. K. (renamed Nikon Corporation in 1988)
Education :	The University of Tokyo, Bachelor of Engineering

The information is current as of the date of publication. It is subject to change without notice.