KDDI Corporation
TU-KA Cellular Tokyo Inc
TU-KA Cellular Tokai Inc
TU-KA Phone Kansai Inc


KDDI Announces Reshuffle of Board Members of Three TU-KA Companies



Tokyo, October 11, 2001 -- KDDI Group companies TU-KA Cellular Tokyo, TU-KA Cellular Tokai and TU-KA Phone Kansai decided at their board meetings* to change the company's board members.

*Tu-Ka Cellular Tokyo had an extraordinary board meeting on October 11th, Tu-Ka Cellular Tokai and Tu-Ka Phone Kansai had one on the 10th.


1.Reshuffle of board members at the three Tu-Ka Companies
The Japanese mobile phone market, which has 65 million subscribers, is close to maturity and so KDDI expects carriers to provide diversified services to focus on user needs. In this changing market environment, to strengthen the mobile phone business of the three TU-KA companies, KDDI has set up the 'TU-KA Business Management Department' that aims to strengthen management strategy and has set up an organization system to manage cost accounting.

Furthermore, KDDI will speed up the management decision-making process of the three TU-KA related companies under its own initiative, and improve efficiencies through cost reduction and operation revisions through the well-integrated administration of the three companies by the current reshuffle of officers.


(1) TU-KA Cellular Tokyo Inc
New title Previous title Name
Representative Chairman President Hajime Nakayama
President Director* Yuji Tsuda
Director* Representative chairman Haruo Taneno
(2) TU-KA Cellular Tokai Inc
New title Previous title Name
Representative Chairman Director* Yuji Tsuda
Director* Representative Chairman Satoshi Nagao
(3) TU-KA Phone Kansai Inc
New title Previous title Name
Representative Chairman Director* Yuji Tsuda
Director* Representative chairman Masahiro Yamamoto

*means part time


2.KDD's personnel shuffle
After the reshuffle at the three TU-KA companies, KDDI announced October 15 a personnel shuffle and change of board members' responsibilities.

New Title, Responsibility Previous title Name
Vice Chairman
Member of the Board
Representative Director&

TU-KA Phone Kansai Director

Vice Chairman
Member of the Board
Representative Director&

TU-KA Phone Kansai
Representative Chairman

Masahiro Yamamoto
Vice Chairman
Member of the Board
Representative Director&

TU-KA Cellular Tokyo Director

Vice Chairman
Member of the Board
Representative Director&

TU-KA Cellular Tokyo
Representative Chairman

Haruo Taneno
Executive Managing Officer
Corporate Strategy Division
Senior General Manager &
Presidential Office General
Manager&

TU-KA Cellular Tokai
Representative Director*

Executive Managing Officer
Board member Managing
Director
Management Strategy Manager

TU-KA Cellular Tokai
Representative chairman

Satoshi Nagao
Managing Officer,
TU-KA Business Management
Department General Manager&

TU-KA Cellular Tokyo
President&
TU-KA Cellular Tokai
Representative Chairman&
TU-KA Phone Kansai
Representative Chairman

Managing Officer,
TU-KA Business Management
Department General Manager&
Planning and Coordination
Department General Manager

TU-KA Cellular Tokyo
Representative Director*
TU-KA Cellular Tokai
Representative Chairman*
TU-KA Phone Kansai
Representative Chairman*

Yuji Tsuda
Executive Secretariat General
Manager&
Planning and Coordination
Department General Manager
Executive Secretariat,
General Manager
Kantaro Nakaoka
*means post is part time
underlined are the reshuffle announced on Oct 15th



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