Notice regarding Transfer of Fixed Asset

Nikon Corporation (Michio Kariya, President, Tokyo) hereby announces that its Board of Directors, at a meeting held today, has resolved to transfer its fixed asset as follows:

1. Reason of transfer

   A part of land at the Yokohama Plant will be transferred to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and some buildings there will move responding to the request of expropriation for the construction projects of the new Yokohama 468 road by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Yokohama-Fujisawa town planning road by Yokohama City.

2. Detail of asset to be transferred

   Location	531-1 Aza-Hibarikoshita, Nagaodai, Sakae-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa
   Area	12,452.80 square meters (officially registered)
   Value on the book	30 million yen
   Price of transfer	1,715 million yen
   Compensation for Move	13,241 million yen
   Current use of buildings to move	Development & Manufacturing of LCD Equipment Division, processing of high precision parts for Nikon precision equipment, etc.

3. Transferee

   Kanto Regional Development Bureau,
   Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

4. Dates until transfer

   Resolution by the Board of Directors	March 5, 2010
   Signing the Agreement	March 5, 2010
   Transfer	End of March 2013 (expected)

5. Estimated effect to the Profit and Loss

   It is estimated that transfer income after the following costs deduction will be appropriated in the financial results of the financial year ending March 31, 2013 where transfer will take place: booked value of land, cost of building demolition, cost of move and other relevant expenses. This transaction will have no effect on the financial results of the current financial year ending March 31, 2010.