(As of Jun 29, 2009)

President Tadahiro Yoshida

Representative Director and vice chairman Takeshi Kawasaki Kiyoshi Takeshima

Directors Masayuki Sarumaru Wataru Otani Masaharu Ando Tetsuo Yazawa Alex Gregory Yukio Yanagida Keinosuke Ono

Corporate Auditor Yoshio Osawa Yukio Gotoh Satoshi Kawai Hiroshi Akiyama

(As of Apr 1, 2009)

President Tadahiro Yoshida   Chief executive officer

Executive Vice President Masayuki Sarumaru   Fastening Products Group Noritaka Tsubata Fastening Products Group Manufacturing&Engineering Headquarters Yusei Sassa Machinery and Engineering Group Wataru Otani Technology Management

Senior Vice President Akira Matsuda   Kurobe Manufacturing Center Akira Omura Technology Enhancement Masaharu Ando CRO and Legal & IP Center Tetsuo Yazawa Business Planning Center Masanori Honda Fastening Products Group Slide Fastener Division Akira Yoshida Fastening Products Group Business Planning Center and Office of Business Planning

Vice President Hisayoshi Mizuhara   Fastening Products Group Quality & Environment Management Center Toshihiro Ogura General Administration Center Masaharu Sato Research and Development Center Toshiro Hashizume Fastening Products Group Slide Fastener Division Slide Fastener Materials Headquarters Yasuharu Terada Human Resources Planning Center Katsuhisa Tsujio Machinery and Engineering Group Architectural Machinery Division Jiichi Bamba Fastening Products Group Technology Development Center Kenzo Ono Machinery and Engineering Group Fastening Machinery Division Tomohiro Mori Machinery and Engineering Group Die Division Business Planning Center Suehiro Uiji Fastening Products Group Slide Fastener Division Slide Fastener Manufacturing Headquarters Hisao Miyamura Accounting & Finance Center Yoshitaka Kamiya Fastening Products Group Snap Fastener and Button Division Satoshi Honda Corporate Planning

Vice President Hiroyuki Kinoshita   Machinery and Engineering Group Parts Manufacturing Group Osamu Uemura Machinery and Engineering Group Production Engineering Center

(As of Nov 1, 2009)

Senior Vice President Junichi Takahashi   President of YKK FASTENING PRODUCTS SALES INC.

Vice President Alex Gregory   President of YKK CORPORATION OF AMERICA Shinichi Kawamoto Chairman and President of YKK DO BRASIL LTDA. Ken Nakano President of YKK HOLDING ASIA PTE.LTD. Takashi Inoue President of YKK (CHINA)INVESTMENT CO.,LTD. Ichiro Narasaki President of YKK BUSINESS SUPPORT INC.

Vice President Nobuo Igarashi   Managing Director of YKK EUROPE LTD.

(As of Jul 1, 2009)

Senior Specialist Hirotoshi Suzuki   Fastening Products Group Business Planning Center Information Technology Department

Chief Engineer / Specialist Kunio Miyazaki   Fastening Products Group Strategic Development Department Masaru Kawakami Fastening Products Group Business Planning Center General Affairs & Human Resources Department Koichi Iida Machinery and Engineering Group Fastening Machinery Division Fastening Machinery Engineering Department Fumio Ikeda Machinery and Engineering Group Architectural Machinery Division Architectural Machinery Engineering Department Kiyotaka Nagata Internal Auditing Masahiro Kusayama EMEA Research and Development Center of YKK EUROPE LTD. Shingo Kawamura Machinery and Engineering Group Production Engineering Center Material Technology Office Takuya Sakuragi Research and Development Center