February 2, 2011 This document is an English translation of a statement written initially in Japanese. The Japanese original should be considered as the primary version. ITOCHU Corporation (Code No. 8001, Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1 st Section) Representative and President: Masahiro Okafuji Contact: Tomoyuki Takada Corporate Communication (TEL. +81-3-3497-7291) Changes in Representative s ITOCHU Corporation has resolved the following changes at its Board of s meeting held on February 2, 2011. <As of March 31, 2011> <> Toshihito Tamba Adviser Executive Vice President Hiroo Inoue Advisory Member <As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2011> <> Ichiro Nakamura <Attached> Changes of s, Auditors and s 1. Retiring of s and s (As of March 31, 2011) 2. Newly Appointed s (As of April 1, 2011) 3. Promotion and Changes in Assignment of s and s (As of April 1, 2011) 4. Newly Appointed Executive Councillor (As of April 1, 2011) 5. Candidates for s (As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2011) 6. Retiring of Corporate Auditors (As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2011) 7. Candidates for Corporate Auditors (As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2011) Personnel Changes Corporate Officers
February 2, 2011 Changes of s, Auditors and s ITOCHU Corporation 1. Retiring of s and s 13 persons (As of March 31, 2011) As of March 31, 2011 Kouhei Watanabe Toshihito Tamba Hiroo Inoue Senior Corporate Adviser Adviser Advisory Member Vice Chairman Executive Vice President Yoshihisa Suzuki Adviser Kazutoshi Maeda Adviser Toru Nomura Adviser Kazuhiko Matsumi Adviser Hiroo Sato Advisory Member Masataka Yukiya Adviser Masanobu Takagi Advisory Member Toshio Obayashi Advisory Member Shuichi Hoshi Advisory Member Hiroaki Tamamaki Advisory Member 2. Newly Appointed s 6 persons (As of April 1, 2011) Managing Executive Officer Kunihiko Tamano Kiyoshi Yamaguchi Hidefumi Suzuki Deputy Legal NIPPON ACCESS INC. Senior Managing Administration SVP & Textile, ITOCHU International Inc.; Chairman & CEO, ITOCHU PROMINENT USA LLC
Masahiko Takasaka Harutoshi Okita Yozo Kubo Chief Operating Officer, Logistics Services SVP & Machinery, ITOCHU International Inc. Chief Operating Officer, Apparel 3. Promotion (2 persons), Reappointment (32 persons) and Changes in Assignment of s and s (20 persons) (As of April 1, 2011) *Promoted s As of April 1, 2011 Yoichi Kobayashi* Executive Vice President Executive Advisory Officer for Energy, Metals & Minerals Company/ ICT & Machinery Company Yoshio Akamatsu Nobuo Kuwayama Senior CAO & CCO Senior Executive Advisory Officer for Kansai District Operation Senior President, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company Senior Chief Officer for Human Resources, General Affairs, Legal; Chief Compliance Officer Senior Chief Officer for Kansai District Operation Tadayuki Seki Kenji Okada Koji Takayanagi Shintaro Ishimaru Senior CFO & CIO Chief Executive for Construction & Realty; Chief Executive for Financial & Insurance Services, Logistics Services CSO; Corporate Planning & Administration Deputy Chief Executive for Financial & Insurance Services, Logistics Services Senior Chief Officer for Finance, Accounting, Risk Management; Chief Financial Officer President, Finance, Realty, Insurance & Logistics Services Company Chief Corporate Planning Officer; Chief Information Officer Executive Vice President, Finance, Realty, Insurance & Logistics Services Company
As of April 1, 2011 Toru Matsushima Shuichi Koseki President, ICT & Machinery Company CEO for ITOCHU East Asia Bloc; Chairman, ITOCHU (CHINA) HOLDING CO., LTD.; Chairman, ITOCHU SHANGHAI LTD.; Chairman, ITOCHU HONG KONG LTD.; Chairman, BIC President, Machinery Company Executive Vice President, ITOCHU China Bloc; Managing, ITOCHU Shanghai Ltd.; Group, China Business Development Group; Ichiro Nakamura Junichi Sasaki President, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company CEO for ASEAN & South West Asia Bloc; President & CEO, ITOCHU Singapore Pte Ltd.; ITOCHU Corporation Singapore Branch Executive Vice President, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company; Chief Operating Officer, Metals & Minerals President & CEO, ITOCHU China Bloc; Chairman, ITOCHU (China) Holding Co., Ltd.; Chairman, ITOCHU Shanghai Ltd.; Chairman, ITOCHU HONG KONG Ltd.; Chairman, BIC Kunihiko Tamano Eiichi Yonekura* Yukihiro Miyake Yutaka Washizu NIPPON ACCESS INC. Deputy CFO; Senior Managing Global Risk Management Administration President & CEO, ITOCHU International Inc. Deputy Global Risk Management Fumihiko Kobayashi Human Resources & General Affairs Isamu Nakayama Vice President, Food Company; Chief Operating Officer, Provisions Masanori Toyoshima Chief Operating Officer, Energy Corporate Planning & Administration Affiliate Administration Chief Operating Officer, Metals & Minerals CEO for Latin America; President of ITOCHU Brasil S.A. General Affairs Vice President, Food Company CEO for the Middle East; Chairman of ITOCHU Middle East F.Z.E.
Hidefumi Suzuki As of April 1 Legal Deputy Legal Masahiko Takasaka Research & Business Development Chief Operating Officer, Logistics Services Of the 44 current s, all 32 s excluding the 12 retiring s (See "1. Retiring of s and s" ) will be reappointed as s. 4. Newly Appointed Executive Councillor 3 person (As of April 1, 2011) Masayasu Tanaka Yasuhiro Baba Naoji Onishi Business Accounting & Control CFO, ITOCHU International Inc. Internal Audit 5. Candidates for s 12 persons (As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2011) Of the 14 current s, all 11 s excluding the 3 retiring s (See "1. Retiring of s and s") and 1 new candidate (See below) will be proposed to the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders as candidates for s. Ichiro Nakamura As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June President, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company Executive Vice President, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company; Chief Operating Officer, Metals & Minerals 6. Retiring of Corporate Auditors 2 persons (As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2011) Masahito Tominaga As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June Advisory Member Haruo Sakaguchi -
7. Candidates for Corporate Auditors 2 persons (As of the date of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2011) Kazutoshi Maeda Masahiro Shimojo Deputy Chief Officer for Human Resources, General Affairs, Legal Nishimura & Asahi Of Counsel CFO: Chief Financial Officer CIO: Chief Information Officer CAO: Chief Administrative Officer CCO: Chief Compliance Officer CSO: Chief Strategy Officer
February 2, 2011 Personnel Changes ITOCHU Corporation As of April 1, 2011 Kunihiro Nakade CFO & CIO, Chief Financial Officer, Textile Company Textile Company Shiro Hayashi Textile Company Chairman, ITOCHU Textile (China) Co., Ltd.; Hideo Nakanishi Chief Operating Officer, Textile Material & Fabric of Textile, ITOCHU China Bloc; CEO & Managing, ITOCHU Textile Prominent (Asia) Ltd. Shigekazu Matsui CFO & CIO, ICT & Machinery Company Chief Financial Officer, Machinery Company Noriyuki Hayata ICT & Machinery Company Machinery Company; Manager, Asset Management Team, Machinery Company Masayasu Tanaka Minoru Nishiyama Business Accounting & Control ; CFO & CIO, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company CFO & CIO, Chemicals, Forest Products & General Merchandise Company Business Accounting & Control Chief Financial Officer, Chemicals, Forest Products & General Merchandise Company Tomoaki Kato Chemicals, Forest Products & General Merchandise Company Wood Products & Materials Department Koichi Matsumoto CFO & CIO, Food Company Chief Financial Officer, Food Company
As of April 1, 2011 Masazumi Nishikage Food Company Deputy Food Company Masahiko Kameoka Masazumi Urabe Chief Operating Officer, Food Products Marketing & Distribution Deputy CIO; IT Planning Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Food Products Marketing & Distribution ; Food Products Marketing & Distribution Department Chief Information Officer, Textile Company; Manager, IT Business Development Department, Textile Company; Tsuyoshi Hachimura Finance SVP & CAO, Corporate Planning, ITOCHU International Inc.; President & CEO, ITOCHU Canada Ltd. Masaki Hayashi CEO for Latin America; President of ITOCHU Brasil S.A. Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Metals & Minerals ; Iron Ore & Steelmaking Resources Department Hiroyuki Tsubai CEO for the Middle East; Chairman of ITOCHU Middle East F.Z.E. Plant & Project Department No.2 As of May1, 2011 As of April 1, 2011 Masayasu Tanaka CFO & CIO, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company Business Accounting Control ; CFO & CIO, Energy, Metals & Minerals Company Masahiko Ena CFO & CIO, Food Company Assistant to CFO & CIO
Corporate Officers *Indicates a Representative As of April 1, 2011 s 11, Auditors 5, s 38 s : 11 Title * Eizo Kobayashi Chairman * Masahiro Okafuji President & Chief * Yoichi Kobayashi * Yoshio Akamatsu * Yoshihisa Aoki * Tadayuki Seki * Kenji Okada * Koji Takayanagi * Satoshi Kikuchi * Toru Matsushima * Hitoshi Okamoto Auditors : 5 Masahito Tominaga Shozo Yoneya Haruo Sakaguchi Ryozo Hayashi Keiji Torii s : 38 Masahiro Okafuji Yoichi Kobayashi Yoshio Akamatsu Nobuo Kuwayama Yoshihisa Aoki Tadayuki Seki Tatsuo Fujino Kenji Okada Koji Takayanagi Satoshi Kikuchi Takeshi Kumekawa Yoshiharu Matsumoto Shintaro Ishimaru Toru Matsushima Yuji Fukuda Kimio Kitamura Shuichi Koseki Ichiro Nakamura Title Corporate Auditor Corporate Auditor Corporate Auditor Corporate Auditor Corporate Auditor Title President & Chief Executive Vice President Senior Senior Senior Senior
Tomofumi Yoshida Junichi Sasaki Hitoshi Okamoto Kunihiko Tamano Eiichi Yonekura Masahiro Imai Nobuyuki Kasagawa Nobuyuki Kizukuri Takahiro Susaki Yukihiro Miyake Yutaka Washizu Fumihiko Kobayashi Isamu Nakayama Masanori Toyoshima Kazutaka Yoshida Kiyoshi Yamaguchi Hidefumi Suzuki Masahiko Takasaka Harutoshi Okita Yozo Kubo Title