West Japan Railway : Change in Representative Directors (Translation;PDF 84KB)

Change in Representative Directors

May 18th, 2016

(Translation)

Company name: West Japan Railway Company

President: Seiji Manabe

Code number: 9021 Stock listings: Tokyo Stock Exchange, Nagoya Stock Exchange and Fukuoka Stock Exchange

For further information, please contact: Shoji Kurasaka General manager, Corporate Communications Department Telephone: +81-6-6375-8889

Change in Representative Directors

At the meeting of its Board of Directors held today, West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) informally determined matters concerning the change in Representative Directors as follows:

※This change will be formally determined at the meeting of its Board of Directors,

which will be held just after the 29th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on June 22, 2016.

1. Reasons for change

   To aim for the further development of the Company and establish a new organization for the next era, in order to realize the "Form of the New JR-WEST Group for the next era," adopted in the Medium-Term Management Plan 2017

2. Candidates for newly appointed representative directors

   President, Representative Director	Tatsuo Kijima (currently, Vice president, Representative Director)
   Vice president, Representative Director	Norihiko Yoshie (currently, Director)
   Vice president, Representative Director	Kazuaki Hasegawa (currently, Director)

3. Planned retirees

   Chairman of the Board and Director of the Company

   Seiji Manabe (currently, President, Representative Director)

   President, Representative Director of West Japan Marketing Communications, Inc.

   Akiyoshi Yamamoto (currently, Vice president, Representative Director)

   Chairman of the Board and Director of Kyoto Station Building Development Co., Ltd.

   Shizuka Yabuki (currently, Vice president, Representative Director)

4. Date of inauguration June 22, 2016

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