Fujikura Ltd TSE:5803

Fujikura : Notice Concerning Changes in Representative Director and Management Structure and Selection of Candidates for Directors at the Annual General Meeting

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Dear All

Company Name: Fujikura Ltd

25-Feb-26

Representative: Naoki Okada, President & CEO

(Code: 5803 Prime market of TSE)

Inquiries: Toru Hamasuna, Executive Officer General Manager of

Corporate Strategy Planning Division (TEL +81-3-5606-1112)

Notice Concerning Changes in Representative Director and Management Structure and Selection of Candidates for Directors at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Fujikura Ltd. (the "Company") hereby announces that the Board of Directors resolved as follows at its meeting

held today.

Notice

  1. Change in Representative Director

    1. Details of the Change

      Name

      New Position

      Current Position

      Tatsuya Banno

      Director and Executive Officer

      Representative Director and CTO

      Kazuhito Iijima

      Representative Director and CFO

      Director and CFO

    2. Effective Date

      April 1, 2026

    3. New Representative Director

      Name

      Kazuhito Iijima

      Date of birth

      22 February 1966

      Career

      April 1989 Joined the Company

      February 2008 Fujikura Automotive Europe S.A.U Vice President & CFO June 2012 Nistica Inc. Vice President & CFO

      April 2016 General Manager, Finance & Accounting Division, the company

      April 2021 Executive Officer, Head of Unit, Corporate Finance & Accounting Unit, the company

      June 2023 The company Director, CFO, Head of Unit, Corporate Management Unit

      (current position)

      Number of shares

      held

      8,020 shares

  2. Changes in management structure (as of April 1, 2026)

    Under the current Medium-Term Management Plan, the Company has achieved its key targets one year ahead of schedule. Building on these results, the Company is currently formulating its next Medium-Term Management Plan, particularly in

    North America, which represents a core growth market for the Company. These changes are intended to strengthen the Company's management and operational framework, thereby achieving further business growth and the sustainable enhancement of corporate value through the effective execution of the next Medium-Term Management Plan.

    (Previous position in parentheses)

    Representative Director, President and CEO

    Naoki Okada

    Representative Director, CFO

    Kazuhito Iijima

    (Director, CFO)

    Director, Executive Officer

    Tatsuya Banno

    (Representative Director, CTO)

    Executive Officer, CTO

    Noriyuki Kawanishi

    (Executive Officer, Head of Telecommunication Systems Business

    Unit)

    Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Strategy Unit

    Toru Hamasuna

    Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Staff Unit

    Yuuki Mori

    Executive Officer, Head of Telecommunication

    Systems Business Unit

    Osato Ken

    General Manager, Optical Cable Division

    Executive Officer, Head of Electronic &

    Automotive Business Unit

    Masazumi Takagi

    General Manager, Electronic Components

    Division

    Executive Officer General Manager, Manufacturing

    Tetsuya Mangyoku

    Production Engineering Unit

    Tatsuya Banno will become Chairperson of America Fujikura Ltd. on the same day.

    Noriyuki Kawanishi will concurrently serve as General Manager of Research and Development Unit.

  3. Candidates for Directors at the 178 th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders

    The following candidates for Directors are to be submitted to the 178 th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (Hereinafter referred to as the "General Meeting".) to be held on June 26, 2026.

    1. Candidates for Directors who are not Audit and Supervisory Committee Members

      (Candidates for re-election)

      Representative Director, President and CEO Naoki Okada

      Representative Director, CFO Kazuhito Iijima

      Outside Director Toshikazu Koike

      Outside Director Hideki Yanase

      (New Candidate)

      Executive Officer, CTO Noriyuki Kawanishi

      Outside Director, Audit & Supervisory Committee Member Yasuhiro Yamada

      The candidates for Outside Directors are all candidates for Outside Directors who are independent from the company Management.

      The above positions are those at the company as of April 1, 2026.

      Yasuhiro Yamada is currently a Director of the company who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member. He will resign at the conclusion of this General Meeting of Shareholders and become a new candidate for Director who is not an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member.

    2. Candidate for Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member (New candidate)

Norika Yuasa

Norika Yuasa is a candidate for Outside Director who has become independent from the Company Management. A brief biography of Yuasa is as described below.

The terms of office of 3 Directors, Koji Naruke, Rumiko Tanabe and Asuka Nakamura, who are Audit and Supervisory Committee Members, will expire at the conclusion of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders for the fiscal year ending March 2027.

(Reference) Introduction of new candidates

Name

Noriyuki Kawanishi

Date of birth

January 26, 1966

Career

April 1990 Joined the Company

January 2013 General Manager, Precision Products Department, Optical Equipment & Systems Division

April 2015 General Manager, Precision Instruments Business Unit, Photonics Business Unit April 2017 General Manager, Precision Instruments Business Unit, the company, Technology

Officer, Development Planning Department

April 2022 Executive Officer, General Manager, Information & Communications Business Unit, the company

April 2026 Executive Officer, CTO, General Manager, Research & Development Unit, the

company

Number of

shares held

12,700 shares

Name

Norika Yuasa

Date of Birth

August 18, 1974

Career

September 2003 Registered as a lawyer

August 2011 Registered as a lawyer in the State of New York September 2017 Lecturer of Waseda University Law School January 2019 Partner, Miura Law Firm (current position)

June 2019 Outside Director, Kose Corporation (current position)

Jun. 2021 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Tokyo Electron Devices Co., Ltd. (current position)

Jun. 2021 Outside Director, St. Care Holding Co., Ltd. (current position)

Number of

Shares Owned

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