Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President, Tokyo) today announced that the Meeting of its Board of Directors has decided to nominate new Director, Officers and Auditors at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting and the subsequent Meeting of the Board of Directors on June 26, 2015.

  1. Nominee for Promoting Officer
    Proposed Title Name Current Title
    Senior Vice President Masao Nakajima Corporate Vice President
    General Manager of Industrial Metrology Business Unit
  2. Nominees for New Officers
    Proposed Title Name Current Title
    Corporate Vice President Masato Hamatani Sector Manager of Development Sector, Semiconductor Lithography Business Unit
    Corporate Vice President Satoshi Hagiwara General Manager of Finance & Accounting Division
  3. Retiring Director
    Current Title Name
    Senior Vice President
    Director
    Overseeing Finance & Accounting Division     		Norio Hashizume
  4. Retiring Officers
    Current Title Name
    Senior Vice President
    Overseeing FPD Lithography Business Unit, Glass Business Unit and Encoder Business Unit     		Kunio Kawabata
    Corporate Vice President
    General Manager of Medical Business Development Division     		Osamu Shimoda
    Kunio Kawabata will be nominated as Counselor.
    Osamu Shimoda will be nominated as Counselor.
  5. Nominee for New Auditor
    Proposed Title Name Current Title
    Standing Corporate Auditor Norio Hashizume Senior Vice President
    Director
    Overseeing Finance & Accounting Division
  6. Retiring Auditor
    Current Title Name
    Standing Corporate Auditor Yoshimichi Kawai
    Yoshimichi Kawai will be nominated as Counselor.
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