New Appointment of Directors, Officers & Auditors

Nikon Corporation (KIMURA Makoto, President, Tokyo) announces that the Executive Committee decided today its recommendation for new appointments of Directors, Officers and Auditors to be proposed to the ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting on the coming June 29, 2011 and the Board of Directors Meeting to follow it.

1. New Director Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Representative Director, Member of the Board, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer	ITOH, Junichi	Senior Managing Executive Officer, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
   Director, Member of the Board & Operating Officer	KANAZAWA, Kenichi	Operating Officer, General Manager of Information System Headquarters

2. Promoting Officer Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Executive Officer	KAWABATA, Kunio	Operating Officer, General Manager of LCD Equipment Division, Precision Equipment Company & General Manager of Sales Department of LCD Equipment Division, Precision Equipment Company
   Executive Officer	OHKI, Hiroshi	Operating Officer, General Manager of Research & Development Headquarters, Core Technology Center
   Executive Officer	HONDA, Takaharu	Operating Officer, General Manager of Business Planning Department, Imaging Company

3. New Officer Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Operating Officer	IWAOKA, Toru	General Manager of Marketing Headquarters, Imaging Company
   Operating Officer	YOSHIKAWA, Kenji	Director & Chairman of the Board, Nikon Metrology NV

4. Retiring Directors

   Current title	Name
   Representative Director, Member of the Board & Executive Vice President	TERATO, Ichiro
   Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	KAWAI, Yoshimichi
   Ichiro TERATO will be nominated as Counselor.

5. New Auditor Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Corporate Auditor	UEHARA, Haruya	Chairman, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
   Corporate Auditor	HATAGUCHI, Hiroshi	Attorney at law, Hataguchi Legal Office
   Standing Corporate Auditor	KAWAI, Yoshimichi	Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer

6. Retiring Auditors

   Current title	Name
   Standing Corporate Auditor	KAJIWARA, Mamoru
   Corporate Auditor	NAKANO, Toyoshi
   Corporate Auditor	KAMIJO, Masatoshi
   Mamoru KAJIWARA will be nominated as Counselor.