April 25, 2014

Astellas Nominates Director and Corporate Auditors

Tokyo, Japan, April 25, 2014 - Astellas Pharma Inc. ("Astellas"; headquarters: Tokyo; President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka) announced that, at a meeting of its Board of Directors held today, it decided on the following candidates for Director and Corporate Auditors to be newly elected at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for June 18, 2014.

[Candidate of Director]

Outside Director Etsuko Okajima

[Director to be retired]

Outside Director Kanoko Oishi

[Candidates of Auditor]

Corporate Auditor Tomokazu Fujisawa
Outside Corporate Auditor Toshiko Oka

[Auditors to be retired]

Corporate Auditor Seigo Kashii
Outside Corporate Auditor Yukiko Kuroda

[The Board of Directors and the Board of Auditors as from June 18, 2014 (planned)]

Member of the Board
Masafumi Nogimori (Representative Director and Chairman) Yoshihiko Hatanaka (Representative Director, President and CEO)
Yoshirou Miyokawa (Representative Director, Executive Vice President and Chief
Administrative Officer & Chief Compliance Officer) Naoki Aikawa (Outside Director)
Yutaka Kase (Outside Director) Hironobu Yasuda (Outside Director) Etsuko Okajima (Outside Director)
Corporate Auditors
Go Otani (Corporate Auditor)
Tomokazu Fujisawa (Corporate Auditor)
Shigeru Nishiyama (Outside Corporate Auditor) Toshiko Oka (Outside Corporate Auditor)

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Contacts for inquiries or additional information

Astellas Pharma Inc. Corporate Communications

Tel: +81-3-3244-3201 Fax: +81-3-5201-7473 http://www.astellas.com/en/


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