Japan Tobacco : JT Announces New Executive Appointments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tokyo, September 24, 2019

JT Announces New Executive Appointments

Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) (TSE:2914) today announced the Board of Directors' resolution concerning the Company's new and changed executive appointments.

Executive Officers (Effective from October 1, 2019) （1）Newly appointed Executive Officer

	Responsibility	Name
	Senior Vice President, Communications	Hiroyuki Fukuda
（2）Change in Responsibilities
	New responsibilities	Name
	Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of	Yuki Maeda
	Japanese Tobacco Business, Tobacco Business
	Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy	Kei Nakano

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Japan Tobacco Inc. is a leading international tobacco company with operations in more than 130 countries. With over 63,000 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 tobacco vapor products under the Ploom brand and various e-cigarette products under the Logic brand. The Group is also present in the pharmaceutical and processed food businesses. For more information, visit https://www.jt.com/.

Contact:	Masahito Shirasu, General Manager
	Media and Investor Relations Division
	Japan Tobacco Inc.
	Tokyo: [phone]
	E-mail: [e-mail]

Supplementary Material

JT's New Executive Appointments

Executive Officers

As of October 1, 2019.

President	Chief Executive Officer	Masamichi Terabatake
Executive Vice	President, Tobacco Business	Mutsuo Iwai
President
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	Compliance, Sustainability Management and	Kazuhito Yamashita
President	General Affairs
Senior Vice	President, Japanese Tobacco Business,	Chito Sasaki
President	Tobacco Business
Senior Vice	Tobacco Business Planning, Corporate, Scientific &	Junichi Fukuchi
President	Regulatory Affairs, Tobacco Business
Senior Vice	Chief Financial Officer of Japanese Tobacco	Yuki Maeda
President	Business, Tobacco Business
Senior Vice	Sales, Tobacco Business	Eiichi Kiyokawa
President
Senior Vice	Leaf Procurement, Tobacco Business	Kenji Ogura
President
Senior Vice	Quality Assurance, Tobacco Business	Hiroyuki Ikuma
President

Senior Vice	RRP Development, Tobacco Business	Yasuhiro Nakajima
President
Senior Vice	Marketing, Tobacco Business	Shuichi Hirosue
President
Senior Vice	R&D, Tobacco Business	Hiroyuki Miki
President
Senior Vice	Manufacturing, Tobacco Business	Akihiro Koyanagi
President
Senior Vice	Head of China Division, Tobacco Business	Toru Oguchi
President
Senior Vice	President, Pharmaceutical Business	Muneaki Fujimoto
President
Senior Vice	Head of Central Pharmaceutical Research	Shigenori Ohkawa
President	Institute, Pharmaceutical Business
Senior Vice	Food Business	Atsuhiro Kawamata
President
Senior Vice	Legal	Haruhiko Yamada
President
Senior Vice	Business Development	Takehiko Tsutsui
President
Senior Vice	Corporate Strategy	Kei Nakano
President
Senior Vice	Digitalization	Takehisa Shibayama
President
Senior Vice	General Affairs	Takanori Kikuchi
President
Senior Vice	Sustainability Management	Chigusa Ogawa
President

Senior Vice	Human Resources	Koichi Mori
President
Senior Vice	Communications	Hiroyuki Fukuda
President