Notice of Resignation and Change of Representative Director

December 11, 2018

Notice of Resignation and Change of Representative Director

Company name: SUBARU CORPORATION
Representative: Tomomi Nakamura, President and CEO
Code number: 7270 (First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange)
Contact for inquiries: Katsuo Saito, Vice President
and General Manager of Administration Department
Phone: +81-3-6447-8825

Subaru Corporation hereby announces that the Company resolved the resignation and change of Representative Director as detailed below.

1. Resignation of Representative Director (Director in charge of manufacturing) (Effective December 31, 2018)
(1) Details of change

Name New position Current position
Masaki Okawara Executive Vice President Representative Director of the Board
and Executive Vice President
Note1: Masaki Okawara will retire as Executive Vice President effective March 31, 2019.
Note2: As a result of this change, the number of Representative Directors of the Company will be one person; Tomomi Nakamura, Representative Director of the Board and President.
Note3: After the resignation of one current Director, the Company still satisfies the number of Directors as stipulated by laws and regulations and the Articles of Incorporation.

(2) Reason for change
 Voluntary resignation

(3) Effective date
 December 31, 2018

2. Newly appointed representative director (Effective June 2019)
(1) Details of change

Name New position Current position
Kazuo Hosoya Representative Director of the Board
and Deputy President
President, Tokyo Subaru Inc.
Note1: Appointed as Deputy President effective January 1, 2019.
Note2: Nominated as a candidate for the Representative Director position. The election is subject to the approval of the 88th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the “AGM”) to be held in June 2019 and a resolution at the Board of Directors meeting to be held after the close of the AGM.
Other candidates for new Directors have not been decided at this time.

(2) Reason for change

The Company nominates a new Representative Director candidate, following the resignation of the current Representative Director.
The Company will further strengthen its efforts to prevent recurrence of the issues identified in relation to final inspection procedures at its Gunma Manufacturing Division, by reshuffling the management team of its manufacturing organization.

(3) Effective date
 June 2019

(4) Brief biography of newly-nominated Representative Director

Name
(Date of birth)
Brief Career History Number
of shares
owned
Kazuo Hosoya
(July 29, 1957)
April 1982 Joined Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.
(now, Subaru Corporation)
10,421
May, 2006 General Manager, Corporate Planning Department
January, 2009 Senior General Manager, Subaru Japan Sales &
Marketing Division
June, 2010 President, Tokyo Subaru Inc.
April, 2012 Corporate Vice President
General Manager, Human Resources Department
April, 2014 Corporate Senior Vice President
General Manager, Human Resources Department
General Manager, Career Support Office
President, Subaru Bloom Co.Ltd
April, 2015 Corporate Senior Vice President
Chief General Manager,
Subaru Japan Sales & Marketing Division
April, 2016 Corporate Executive Vice President
Chief General Manager,
Subaru Japan Sales & Marketing Division
April, 2018 President, Tokyo Subaru Inc. (current position)

(Note)
The Company today issued a news release “Subaru Corporation Announces Management Changes (Effective January 1, 2019)”.
URL: https://www.subaru.co.jp/press/news-en/2018_12_11_6633/

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