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New Appointment of Director, Officers and Auditors

May 20, 2015

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.

• The information is current as of the date of publication. It is subject to change without notice.