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This is to advise you that Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto) will make changes to its organizational structure, executive officers, management personnel and their assignments, as follows.

1. Organizational Structure Change (as of April 1, 2018)

①	Corporate Financial & Accounting Group and Corporate Business Systems Administration Group will be integrated into Corporate Business Systems Administration Group
②	Corporate Management Promotion Division will change its name to Corporate Management Promotion Group

2. Changes in Titles and Assignments of Executive Officers (as of April 1, 2018)

Name	<New> Title [<New> Assignment]	Present Title [Present Assignment]
Shoichi Aoki	Director and Managing Executive Officer [<General Manager of Corporate Business Systems Administration Group>]	Director and Managing Executive Officer [General Manager of Corporate Financial & Accounting Group]
Junichi Jinno	<Managing Executive Officer> [General Manager of Corporate Legal and Intellectual Property Group]	Senior Executive Officer [General Manager of Corporate Legal and Intellectual Property Group]
Takashi Okunosono	<Executive Officer> [General Manager of Corporate Ceramic Materials Semiconductor Components Group]	Senior Executive Officer [General Manager of Corporate Ceramic Materials Semiconductor Components Group]
Hironao Kudo	Executive Officer [<Deputy General Manager of Corporate R&D Group>]	Executive Officer [Deputy General Manager of Corporate Electronic Components Group]
Tayo Hamano	Executive Officer [<General Manager of Corporate Management Promotion Group>]	Executive Officer [General Manager of Corporate Automotive Components Group]

3. New Executive Officers (as of April 1, 2018)

Name	<New> Title [<New> Assignment]	Present Title [Present Assignment]
Tadashi Shinagawa	<Executive Officer> [<Deputy General Manager of Corporate Fine Ceramics Group>]	[General Manager of Fine Ceramics Sales Division 1, Corporate Fine Ceramics Group]
Senri Nagashima	<Executive Officer> [<Deputy General Manager of Corporate Cutting Tool Group>]	President and Director of KYOCERA UNIMERCO A/S (Denmark)

4. Resignation of Executive Officer (as of March 31, 2018)

Name	Present Title [Present Assignment]
Yuji Gotoh	Executive Officer [President of KYOCERA (China) Sales & Trading Corporation] * To become a Riji as of April 1, 2018. Present assignment as President remains unchanged.

5. Candidate for Director (as of late June 2018)

Name	Present Title [Present Assignment]
Junichi Jinno	Senior Executive Officer [General Manager of Corporate Legal and Intellectual Property Group] * To become a Managing Executive Officer as of April 1, 2018.

Note: Directorship to be appointed at the June 2018 General Meeting of Shareholders.

6. Change in Assignment of Management Personnel

Name	<New> Title [<New> Assignment]	Present Title [Present Assignment]
Hitoshi Matsunosako	<General Manager of Corporate Automotive Components Group>	General Manager of Automotive Components Production Division, Corporate Automotive Components Group