FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tokyo, July 30, 2021

JT Announces New Executive Appointments

Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) (TSE:2914) announces that the Board of Directors has made a resolution concerning the Company's new executive appointment.

Change in Executive Officers (Effective from September 1, 2021)

1. Newly appointed Executive Officer

Responsibility

Name

Senior Vice President, Performance & Integration, Tobacco Business

Daniel Torras

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Japan Tobacco Inc. is a leading international tobacco company with operations in more than 130 countries. With approximately 58,000 employees, it manufactures and sells some of the world's best-known brands including Winston, Camel, MEVIUS and LD. The JT Group is committed to investing in Reduced-Risk Products (RRP) and currently markets its heated tobacco products under the Ploom brand and various e-cigarette products under its Logic brand. The Group is also present in the pharmaceutical and processed food businesses. For more information, visit https://www.jt.com/.

Contacts: Dinesh Babu Thotakura, General Manager

Media and Investor Relations Division

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Tokyo: +81-3-6636-2914

E-mail: jt.media.relations@jt.com

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Executive Officers

(As of September 1, 2021)

President

Chief Executive Officer*

Masamichi Terabatake

Executive Vice

Chief Financial Officer and Communications

Naohiro Minami

President

Executive Vice

Legal, Corporate Strategy, Digitalization, Human

Kiyohide Hirowatari

President

Resources, Operation Review & Business

Assurance, Pharmaceutical Business and Food

Business

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Chief Sustainability Officer, Compliance and General

Kazuhito Yamashita

Affairs

Chief Executive Officer of Japanese Tobacco

Junichi Fukuchi

Business, Tobacco Business Planning, Tobacco

Business

Chief Financial Officer of Japanese Tobacco

Yuki Maeda

Business, Tobacco Business

Sales, Tobacco Business

Eiichi Kiyokawa

Corporate, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, Tobacco

Kenji Ogura

Business

Leaf Procurement, Tobacco Business

Chigusa Ogawa

Head of RRP Japan Office, Tobacco Business

Yasuhiro Nakajima

Marketing, Tobacco Business

Shuichi Hirosue

R&D, Tobacco Business

Hiroyuki Miki

Manufacturing, Tobacco Business

Akihiro Koyanagi

Head of China Division, Tobacco Business

Toru Oguchi

Quality Assurance, Tobacco Business

Toru Hijikata

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Senior Vice President

Performance & Integration, Tobacco Business**

Daniel Torras

President, Pharmaceutical Business

Muneaki Fujimoto

Head of Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute,

Shigenori Ohkawa

Pharmaceutical Business

Food Business

Hiromasa Furukawa

Corporate Strategy

Kei Nakano

Digitalization

Takehisa Shibayama

General Affairs

Takanori Kikuchi

Human Resources

Koichi Mori

Communications

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Legal

Osamu Hirose

Sustainability Management

Hisato Imokawa

*Mr. Terabatake, Chief Executive Officer, will also serve as President of Tobacco Business. **New appointment

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