New Appointment of Directors and Officers

Nikon Corporation (KIMURA Makoto, President, Tokyo) announces that the Executive Committee decided today its recommendation for new appointments of Directors and Officers to be proposed to the ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting on the coming June 28, 2012 and the Board of Directors Meeting to follow it.

1. New Director Nominee

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	OHKI, Hiroshi	Executive Officer, Vice President of Core Technology Center & General Manager of Research & Development Headquarters, Core Technology Center

2. Promoting Officer Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Executive Officer	KANAZAWA, Kenichi	Operating Officer,President of Business Administration Center
   Executive Officer	UMATATE, Toshikazu	Operating Officer, Vice President of Precision Equipment Company & General Manager of Sales Headquarters, Precision Equipment Company
   Executive Officer	KOSAKA, Tsuneo	Operating Officer, General Manager of Production Headquarters, Imaging Company

3. New Officer Nominees

   Proposed title	Name	Current title
   Operating Officer	NAKAMURA, Atsumi	General Manager of Business Planning Department & Bioscience Marketing Department, Instruments Company
   Operating Officer	ODAJIMA, Takumi	General Manager of Planning Department, Precision Equipment Company
   Operating Officer	NAGATSUKA, Jun	General Manager of Production Technology Headquarters, Core Technology Center

4. Retiring Directors

   Current title	Name
   Representative Director, Chairman of the Board	KARIYA, Michio
   Director, Member of the Board & Senior Executive Officer	SUWA, Kyoichi
   Director, Member of the Board & Executive Officer	KUMAZAWA, Masami
   Michio KARIYA will be nominated as Corporate Advisor. Kyoichi SUWA will be nominated as Counselor. Masami KUMAZAWA will be nominated as Counselor.