Japan Tobacco Inc. announced resolutions from the Board of Directors concerning the Company's new and revised executive appointments, including changes among its Representative Directors. Candidate for appointment as new Representative Director (Effective from March 22, 2024): Name: Koji Shimayoshi, New Responsibility: Executive Vice President and Representative Director, Current Responsibility: Executive Vice President, JT International S.A. Mr. Shimayoshi will assume the office as Executive Vice President effective from January 1, 2024. The appointment as Representative Director is subject to the ratification at the 39th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 22, 2024, and approval at the Company's Board of Directors' meeting, scheduled subsequently.

Resigning Representative Director (Effective from January 1, 2024): Name: Kiyohide Hirowatari, New Responsibility: Member of the Board. Current Responsibility: Executive Vice President and Representative Director. Mr. Hirowatari will assume a new position as Member of the Board without the right to represent the Company as of January 1, 2024, and will resign as Member of the Board upon the conclusion of the 39th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 22, 2024.

Biography of the Candidate to be appointed as Representative Director: Name/Date of Birth: Koji Shimayoshi March 7, 1968. Biography: January 2018 ­ to date, Executive Vice President, JT International S.A.; October 2017, Senior Vice President, JT International S.A.; January 2017, Senior Vice President, Head of Tobacco Business Planning Division, Tobacco Business; October 2015, Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer; July 2014, Vice President of Human Resources Division and Human Resources Planning Division; July 2012, Vice President of Human Resources Division; July 2008, Vice President of Tobacco Business Planning Division, Tobacco Business; April 1993, Joined Japan Tobacco Inc. Changes in Members of the Board (Effective from March 22, 2024): Name: Hiroko Yamashina, New Responsibilities: Member of the Board, Current Responsibilities: Audit and Supervisory Board Member. Name: Kenji Asakura, New Responsibilities: Member of the Board, Current Responsibilities: Representative Director, Chairman, Nagase & Co.

Ltd. The appointment of Members of the Board is subject to ratification at the 39th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 22, 2024. Resigning Member of the Board: Ms. Kohda will resign as Member of the Board upon the conclusion of the 39th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 22, 2024. Changes in Members of the Audit and Supervisory Board (Effective from March 22, 2024): Name: Emiko Takeishi, New Responsibility: Audit and Supervisory Board Member.

Current Responsibilities: Professor, Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies, Hosei University, Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Tokio Marine &Nichido Fire Insurance Co. Ltd., Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, KAJIMA CORPORATION. The appointment of Member of the Audit and Supervisory Board is subject to ratification at the 39th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 22, 2024 with the approval of the Audit and Supervisory Board.

Resigning Member of the Audit and Supervisory Board: Ms. Hiroko Yamashina will resign as Audit and Supervisory Board Member upon the conclusion of the 39th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for March 22, 2024. Newly appointed Executive Officers (Effective from January 1, 2024): Koji Shimayoshi as Executive Vice President, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Corporate Strategy, Sustainability, People & Culture, Information Technology, Legal, Operation Review & Business Assurance, Pharmaceutical Business and Food Business, Igor Dzaja as Senior Vice President, Marketing, Tobacco Business, Japan, Kazuyuki Inui as Senior Vice President, Sales, Tobacco Business, Japan. Resigning Executive Officers (As of December 31, 2023): Kiyohide Hirowatari as Executive Vice President, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Corporate Strategy, Sustainability, People & Culture, Information Technology, Legal, Operation Review & Business Assurance, Pharmaceutical Business and Food Business, Eiichi Kiyokawa as Senior Vice President, Sales, Tobacco Business, Japan, Chigusa Ogawa as Senior Vice President, Leaf Procurement, Tobacco Business, Japan, Shuichi Hirosue as Senior Vice President, Marketing, Tobacco Business, Japan.

JT's New Executive Appointments (Proposed as of January 1, 2024): Members of the Board: Chairperson of the Board - Mutsuo Iwai; Deputy Chairperson of the Board - Shigeaki Okamoto; Representative Director - Masamichi Terabatake; Representative Director - Kei Nakano; Member of the Board - Kiyohide Hirowatari; Member of the Board - Main Kohda; Member of the Board - Yukiko Nagashima; Member of the Board - Masato Kitera; Member of the Board - Tetsuya Shoji. Audit and Supervisory Board Members: Standing Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Hideaki Kashiwakura; Standing Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Tsutomu Hashimoto; Standing Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Shigeru Taniuchi; Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Nobuo Inada; Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Hiroko Yamashina. Ms. Kohda, Ms. Nagashima, Mr. Kitera and Mr. Shoji are Outside Directors, set out in Article 2, Item (xv) of the Companies Act of Japan.

Mr. Taniuchi, Mr. Inada and Ms. Yamashina are Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Members, set out in Article 2, Item (xvi) of the Companies Act of Japan. JT's New Executive Appointments (Proposed as of March 22, 2024): Members of the Board: Chairperson of the Board - Mutsuo Iwai; Deputy Chairperson of the Board - Shigeaki Okamoto; Representative Director - Masamichi Terabatake; Representative Director - Kei Nakano; Representative Director - Koji Shimayoshi; Member of the Board - Yukiko Nagashima; Member of the Board - Masato Kitera; Member of the Board - Tetsuya Shoji; Member of the Board - Hiroko Yamashina; Member of the Board - Kenji Asakura. Audit and Supervisory Board Members: Standing Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Hideaki Kashiwakura; Standing Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Tsutomu Hashimoto; Standing Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Shigeru Taniuchi; Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Nobuo Inada; Audit and Supervisory Board Member - Emiko Takeishi.

Ms. Nagashima, Mr. Kitera, Mr. Shoji, Ms. Yamashina and Mr. Asakura are Outside Directors, set out in Article 2, Item (xv) of the Companies Act of Japan. Mr. Taniuchi, Mr. Inada and Ms. Takeishi are Outside Audit and Supervisory Board Members, set out in Article 2, Item (xvi) of the Companies Act of Japan.