Nihon Nohyaku : Announcement of Personnel Change

19-8, Kyobashi 1-Chome,Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8386

May 13th, 2024

NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTD.

To whom it may concern

Announcement of Personnel Change

1．Effective Date of Appointment

June 19th, 2024

2．Personnel Change

（１）The candidates for Director (Excluding Directors Serving as the Audit & Supervisory Committee Members.)

(The Appointments are subject to approval at the 125th ordinary shareholders meeting scheduled on June 19th, 2024. Scheduled to take office on the same day.)

Name	New Position	Present Position
Yosuke Tomoi	Director,	Same as on the left
	Chairman
Hiroyuki Iwata	Representative Director,	Same as on the left
	President
Koji Shishido	Representative Director,	Representative Director,
	Vice President,	Vice President
	in charge of Environment
	Safety & Quality Assurance
	Dept.
Akio Kohri	Director	Same as on the left
Haruhiko Tomiyasu	Director	Same as on the left
Masuyo Ohtani	Director（Outside）	Same as on the left
Noboru Matsumoto	Director（Outside）	Same as on the left
Shiyo Yamana	Director（Outside）	(Newly appointed)

Notice; Ms.Masuyo Ohtani, Mr.Noboru Matsumoto, and Ms. Shiyo Yamana are candidates of outside directors as stipulated in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Act.

（２）Director serving as the Audit & Supervisory Committee Members

(The Appointments are subject to approval at the 125th ordinary shareholders meeting scheduled on June 19th, 2024. Scheduled to take office on the same day.)

Name	New Position	Present Position
Hideo Yamamoto	Director, Full-time Audit &	Managing Executive Officer,
	Supervisory Committee Member	Division Manager of Administration
		Division, responsible for special
		missions
Iwao Toigawa	Director（Outside）,	Same as on the left
	Audit & Supervisory
	Committee Member
	Director（Outside）,
Chizuko Nakata	Audit & Supervisory	Same as on the left
	Committee Member
Yoshiko Oshima	Director（Outside）,	Same as on the left

Audit & Supervisory

Committee Member

Notice; Mr.Iwao Toigawa, Ms.Chizuko Nakata, and Ms.Yoshiko Oshima are candidates of outside directors as stipulated in Article 2, Item 15 of the Companies Act.

（３）Retiring Directors (Scheduled date of retirement: June 19th, 2024)

Name	Present Position	New Position
Yasunori Matsui	Director（Outside）	―
Yoshiaki Higashino	Director, Full-time Audit &	―
Supervisory Committee Member

（４）The candidates for Executive Officer (Appointment on June 19th, 2024)

Name	New Position	Present Position
	Managing Executive Officer,
Jeffrey R. Johnson	Chairman and CEO of Nichino	Same as on the left
	America,Inc.
	Managing Executive Officer,
	Division Manager of Corporate	Senior Executive Officer,
	Planning Division,
Shiro Takahashi	Division Manager of
Division Manager of
	Corporate Planning Division
	Administration Division,
	responsible for special missions
	Managing Executive Officer,	Senior Executive Officer,
Kazuhiko Motoba	Division Manager of Overseas	Division Manager of Overseas
	Division	Division
	Senior Executive Officer,
Junjiro Inoshita	Division Manager of Domestic	Same as on the left
	Sales Division
		Senior Executive Officer,
	Senior Executive Officer,	Division Manager of Research
	Division,
Tetsuyoshi Nishimatsu	Division Manager of Research
in charge of Environment
	Division
	Safety & Quality Assurance
		Dept.
	Senior Executive Officer,
	Division Manager of Production
Yoshitaka Taniyama	Division,	Same as on the left
General Manager of Osaka Office
	of Production Division,
	responsible for special missions
	Senior Executive Officer,	Executive Officer,
	Division Manager of
	Division Manager of
	Industrial & Pharmaceuticals
	Industrial & Pharmaceuticals
	Sales Division,
	Sales Division,
Tadashi Tanimoto	General Manager of Smart
General Manager of Smart
	Agriculture Promotion
	Agriculture Promotion Dept.,
	Dept., Industrial &
	Industrial & Pharmaceuticals
	Pharmaceuticals Sales
	Sales Division
	Division
Hiroshi Okumura	Senior Executive Officer,	Executive Officer,
Division Manager of Market	Division Manager of Market

	Development Division	Development Division
	Senior Executive Officer,	Executive Officer,
Manfred Hilweg	President of Nichino Europe Co.,	President of Nichino Europe
	Ltd.	Co., Ltd.
	Executive Officer,
Isao Ishimura	President of Nichino Service	Same as on the left
	Co., Ltd.
	Executive Officer,
Toshitomo Tanaka	Deputy Division Manager of	Same as on the left
	Overseas Division
	Executive Officer,
	General Manager of Research
Shinsuke Fujioka	Center, Research Division	Same as on the left
Research Planning Manager of
	Research Center, Research
	Division
	Executive Officer,
	Deputy Division Manager of
	Domestic Sales Division,
Nobuyuki Shimoyama	General Manager of Sales Dept.,	Same as on the left
Domestic Sales Division,
	General Manager of Technical
	Service & Promotion Dept.,
	Domestic Sales Division
	Executive Officer,
	Deputy Division Manager of
Yasuhiro Fujita	Corporate Planning Division,	Same as on the left
General Manager of Corporate
	Planning Dept., Corporate
	Planning Division
	Executive Officer,	General Manager of Sales
	General Manager of Sales
Miyako Aoki	Department, EAME & AMERICAS,
Department, EAME & AMERICAS,
	Overseas Division
	Overseas Division

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