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April 25, 1997

Scheduled Changes to the Board of Directors of Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. announced today the following changes to the Board of Directors scheduled to become effective as of June 27.

- Newly-nominated directors -
Kyohei Kasaba
Kazuo Sato
Kaichi Murata
Jushi Ide
Katsukuni Hisano
Hiroshi Inomata
Kotaro Muneoka
Takao Kato
Kosei Nomiya
Takao Matsui
Masaaki Hayashi
Toshihiko Odaka
- Directors leaving the Board -
Iwao Matsuoka (Executive Vice-President and Representative Director)
Takashi Kashiwagi (Executive Vice-President and Representative Director)
Asahiko Isobe (Senior Executive Managing Director)
Takashi Nonouchi (Senior Executive Managing Director)
Satoshi Ninomiya (Executive Managing Director)
Yoshiteru Miki (Executive Managing Director)
Tomoyoshi Takahashi (Board Director)
Shigemi Sumi (Board Director)
Reiji Tagaya (Board Director)
Makoto Endo (Board Director)
Ichiro Nagata (Board Director)
Nobuo Gouji (Board Director)
Taizoh Nauchi (Board Director)
- Directors nominated for promotion -
Shiro Kawate (currently Senior Executive Managing Director)
to Executive Vice-President and Representative Director
Tadahiko Shinohara (currently Senior Executive Managing Director)
to Executive Vice-President and Representative Director
Kunio Hamada (currently Senior Executive Managing Director)
to Executive Vice-President and Representative Director
Etsuhiko Shoyama (currently Senior Executive Managing Director)
to Executive Vice-President and Representative Director
Yoshiki Yagi (currently Executive Managing Director)
to Senior Executive Managing Director
Shigemichi Matsuka (currently Executive Managing Director)
to Senior Executive Managing Director
Yoshiro Kuwata (currently Executive Managing Director)
to Senior Executive Managing Director
Tsugio Makimoto (currently Executive Managing Director)
to Senior Executive Managing Director
Kazuo Kumagai (currently Board Director)
to Executive Managing Director
Takashi Kawamura (currently Board Director)
to Executive Managing Director
Kenichi Furumaya (currently Board Director)
to Executive Managing Director
Tadashi Ishibashi (currently Board Director)
to Executive Managing Director
- Background of newly-nominated directors -
(as of April 25, 1997)
Kyohei Kasaba
b. March 1938
March 1961 Graduated from Kyoto University
April 1961 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
August 1994 General Manager, Consumer Products & Information Media Systems Group
Kazuo Sato
b. July 1937
March 1960 Graduated from Iwate University
April 1960 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1993 General Manager, Project Coordination Department
Kaichi Murata
b. March 1941
March 1963 Graduated from Meiji University
April 1963 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1991 General Manager, Finance Department
Jushi Ide
b. May 1941
March 1964 Graduated from The University of Tokyo
April 1964 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1995 General Manager, Industrial Processing Division, Industrial Systems & Equipment Group
Katsukuni Hisano
b. March 1940
March 1962 Graduated from The University of Tokyo
April 1962 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1995 General Manager, Hitachi Works
Hiroshi Inomata
b. December 1938
March 1961 Graduated from Niigata University
April 1961 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1995 General Manager, Instrument Division
Kotaro Muneoka
b. October 1940
March 1964 Graduated from The University of Tokyo
April 1964 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
August 1994 General Manager, Corporate Employee Relations Department
Takao Kato
b. January 1942
March 1965 Graduated The University of Tokyo
April 1965 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1995 General Manager, Telecommunications Division
Kosei Nomiya
b. September 1940
March 1964 Graduated from Tohoku University
April 1964 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1995 General Manager, Semiconductor & Integrated Circuits Division
Takao Matsui
b. March 1939
March 1963 Graduated from Waseda University
April 1963 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1993 General Manager, Kansai Area Operation
Masaaki Hayashi
b. December 1940
March 1963 Graduated from The University of Tokyo
April 1963 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
June 1996 General Manager, Data Storage & Retrieval Systems Division
Toshihiko Odaka
b. February 1942
March 1966 Graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo (Master of Engineering)
April 1966 Entered Hitachi, Ltd.
August 1992 General Manager, General Purpose Computer Division

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