ITOCHU Corporation announced at its ITOCHU Corporation board of directors meetings held on January 21, 2015, approved the retirement of Tomofumi Yoshida as director, Takao Shiomi as director and Senior management executive officer, Yuji Fukuda as director Eizo Kobayashi as director, Ichiro Nakamura as Senior management executive officer, Junichi Sasaki as Managing executive director, Nobuyuki Kizukuri as Managing executive director, Kunihiro Nakade as Managing executive director, Atsushi Kastu as executive officer and Tsutomu Miyazaki as executive officer. The company also proposed the appointment of Masahiro Imai as representative director, Yoshihisa Suzuki as representative director and Senior management executive officer, Kazutaka Yoshida as representative director, Yasuyuki Harada as representative director, Atsuko Muraki as outside director, Yozo Kubo as Managing executive director, Hiroshi Oka as executive officer, Motonari Shimizu as executive officer, Masato Osugi as executive officer and Tsuchihashi Akira as executive officer.