Sumitomo Corporation announced the retirement of Toyosaku Hamada, Shinichi Sasaki, Takuro Kawahara, Kazuhisa Togashi, Yasuyuki Abe, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Kohei Hirao, Kimio Fukushima, Yoshihiro Fujiura, Toshifumi Shibuya and Masatoshi Hayashi from its Executive Officers. Also announced the new appointment of Tsuyoshi Oikawa, Tsutomu Akimoto, Masato Ishida, Takeshi Murata and Nobuki Ando as Executive Officers. The company announced the promotion of Executive Officers: Naoki Hidaka, Hiroyuki Inohara, Michihiko Kanegae and Koichi Takahata, Masao Tabuchi, Hirohiko Imura, Kiyoshi Sunobe, Makoto Horie, Toshikazu Nambu, Masayuki Hyodo.

The other Personnel Changes of Executive Officers include Hideki Iwasawa, Masao Sekiuchi, Masato Sugimori,Akira Satake, Shoichi Kato, Michihiko Hosono, Akira Tsuyuguchi, Shoichiro Oka. Newly Appointed Director are Hideki Iwasawa, Masao Tabuchi, Hirohiko Imura, Makoto Horie. Retirement of directors include Shinichi Sasaki, Takuro Kawahara, Kazuhisa Togashi and Yasuyuki Abe.

The personnel changes of Corporate Officers include newly appointed Corporate Officers are Kenji Setogawa, Yoshiaki Benino, Daisuke Ohashi, Kanji Tojo, Mitsuhiro Takeda, Katsuya Inubushi, Iehisa Nakamur, Yoshinori Mukaida, Bin Haga and other changes include Tetsuo Oshima, Tsuneaki Maeda, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Tomishima, Tsuneyuki Okada, Katsuya Okihiro, Takayuki Seishima, Tetsuro Tajima, Yasushi Fukuda, Kyo Onojima, Shinji Nakano, Norihiko Nonaka, Masaru Shiomi.