Canon Inc. announced the retirement of Shigeyuki Matsumoto as director and Kazuto Ono and Tadashi Ohe as audit & supervisory board members, the board to appoint Hiroaki Sato and Yutaka Tanaka as audit & supervisory board members, effective March 28, 2019. The company also announced the appointment of Saijiro Endo, Toshiyuki Matsuda, Takeshi Ichikawa and Hiroto Okawara as New Executive Officers and the company promoted Soichi Hiramatsu, Takashi Takeya, Go Tokura and Hisahiro Minokawa as Managing Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2019.