New Appointment of Directors and Executive Officers

Nikon Corporation (YOSHIDA, Shoichiro, Chairman of the Board & CEO) announces that the board of directors decided today its recommendation for new appointments of Directors and Executive Officers to be proposed to the ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting on the coming June 29, 2005 and the Board of Directors Meeting to immediately follow it.

1. Director's Promotion

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   President, Member of the Board * Chief Executive Officer & Chief Operating Officer	KARIYA, Michio	Executive Vice President, Member of the Board * President of Precision Equipment Company
   Senior Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	KIMURA, Makoto	Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer President of Imaging Company
   Senior Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	SUWA, Kyoichi	Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer Vice President of Precision Equipment Company
   Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	USHIDA, Kazuo	Executive Officer General Manager of Development Headquarters, Precision Equipment Company
   Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	KAWAI, Yoshimichi	Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer Vice President of Precision Equipment Company
   Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	MORI, Hidetoshi	Executive Officer President of Instruments Company
   Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	ICHIHARA, Yutaka	Executive Officer Vice President of Core Technology Center
   Remarks : "*" indicates "representative director of the Board".

2. New Director Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Executive Vice President, Member of the Board * & Chief Financial Officer	TERATO, Ichiro	Senior Managing Director, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd.
   Director, Member of the Board	KANEKO, Ryotaro	President Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company
   Remarks : "*" indicates "representative director of the Board".

3. Remaining Directors

   Current title	Name
   Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer President of Corporate Strategy Center	KAJIWARA, Mamoru
   Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer Divisional President of Office of Management Strategy	MIYAUCHI, Norio
   Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer Vice President of Imaging Company	TOMINO, Naoki
   Director, Member of the Board	KONO, Shunji

4. Retiring Director

   Current title	Name
   Chairman of the Board * & Chief Executive Officer	YOSHIDA, Shoichiro
   Vice Chairman of the Board * & Chief Financial Officer	ENYA, Kenji
   President, Member of the Board * & Chief Operating Officer	SHIMAMURA, Teruo
   Executive Vice President, Member of the Board *	HARA, Yasujiro
   Managing Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	TAMORI, Takashi
   Director, Member of the Board	TSUCHIDA, Terumichi
   Shoichiro YOSHIDA and Teruo SHIMAMURA have been nominated as Corporate Adviser. Kenji ENYA has been nominated as Senior Advisor.  Yasujiro HARA and Takashi TAMORI have been nominated as Counselor.

5. New Executive Officer Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Executive Officer	IWASAKI, Jun	President, Tochigi Nikon Corporation
   Executive Officer	MASAI, Toshiyuki	President & CEO, Nikon Inc.
   Executive Officer	HASHIZUME, Norio	General Manager of Financing & Accounting Department, Corporate Strategy Center
   Executive Officer	OKAMOTO, Yasuyuki	General Manager of Corporate Communications & IR Department, Corporate Strategy Center
   Executive Officer	UMATATE, Toshikazu	Executive Senior Staff of Development Headquarters, Precision Equipment Company

6. Remaining Executive Officers

   Current title	Name
   Executive Officer Vice President of Core Technology Center	WATANABE, Takao
   Executive Officer General Manager of Marketing Management Department, Imaging Company	HIRAI, Hideshi
   Executive Officer General Manager of Planning Department, Precision Equipment Company	KUMAZAWA, Masami
   Executive Officer General Manager of Development Management Department, Imaging Company	GOTO, Tetsuro
   Executive Officer Vice President of Business Administration Center	MORISHITA, Koji

7. Retiring Executive Officers

   Current title	Name
   Executive Officer General Manager of Glass Division	UMEDA, Yuichi
   Executive Officer Assistant of President of Precision Equipment Company	TANIMOTO, Akikazu
   Yuichi UMEDA and Akikazu TANIMOTO have been nominated as Special Consulting Staff.