Name of Listed Company: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
(URL: http://www.yokogawa.com) (Stock code: 6841, listed in TSE 1st section) Name and Position of the Representative:
Takashi Nishijima, President and Chief Operating Officer
Name and Position of the Person in Charge:
Sadamu Kawanaka, General Manager of Corporate Communication Department. Telephone Number: 81-422-52-5530
March 24, 2015

Director Candidates

Yokogawa Electric Corporation is notifying you that its Board of Directors has resolved on this date to recommend that the following individuals be elected to the post of the director at the annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled for June 24, 2015.
1. Director candidates (Positions in parentheses are as of March 24, * indicates new candidate) Shuzo Kaihori (Representative Director, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer)
Takashi Nishijima (Representative Director, President, Chief Operating Officer) Satoru Kurosu (Director, Executive Vice President)
Hitoshi Nara (Director)
Masatoshi Nakahara (Director, Senior Vice President) Junichi Anabuki (Director, Vice President)
Mitsudo Urano (Outside Director) Noritaka Uji (Outside Director)
Nobuo Seki * (Former President and Chairman of Chiyoda Corporation) Messrs. Urano, Uji, and Seki are candidates for outside director.
The director candidates have been selected based on a report from the Company's Nomination and Compensation Committee. The Nomination and Compensation Committee is an advisory body to the Company's Board of Directors.
2. Curriculum vitae of new candidate
Name: Nobuo Seki
Date of birth: September 21, 1944
Education: Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology with master's degree in mechanical engineering
Career:
April 1970 : Joined Chiyoda Chemical Engineering Company
April 1992: Vice President & Project General Manager of Chiyoda International
Corporation in USA
June 1997: Director of Chiyoda Corporation
June 1998: Managing Director of Chiyoda Corporation
August 2000: Senior Managing Director of Chiyoda Corporation
April 2001: President and CEO of Chiyoda Corporation
April 2007: Chairman of Chiyoda Corporation
April 2009: General Corporate Advisor of Chiyoda Corporation
July 2012 - June 2013: Advisor of Chiyoda Corporation
3. Outgoing director (planned) (Position in parentheses is as of March 24.) Yasuro Tanahashi (Outside Director)
This document is an English translation of a document prepared in Japanese. In the event of any discrepancies between the content of the Japanese and English documents, the content of the Japanese document shall prevail.

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