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May 12, 2015

Executive Personnel Changes

Mazda Motor Corporation has announced the following executive personnel changes proposed to take effect on June 23 following the 149th ordinary general meeting of shareholders and the subsequent meeting of the board of directors.

New Post	Current Post	Name
Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer Oversight of Operations in China, Domestic Sales, Fleet Sales No.1; In charge of Global Auditing; Chairman, Mazda Motor (China) Co., Ltd.	Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer Oversight of Operations in China, Domestic Sales, Fleet Sales No.1; Chairman, Mazda Motor (China) Co., Ltd.	Nobuhide Inamoto
Director	-	Kazuaki Jono

Note: Mr. Jono is a candidate for Outside Director as stipulated in the Companies Act.

New Post	Current Post	Name
Executive Officer In charge of Secretariat, General & Legal Affairs, Compliance, Risk Management and Mazda Hospital; General Manager, Office of General & Legal Affairs	Executive Officer In charge of Secretariat, General & Legal Affairs, Compliance and Risk Management; General Manager, Office of General & Legal Affairs	Makoto Yoshihara

Executives to step down from their positions

Current Post	Name
Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer Oversight of Secretariat and General & Legal Affairs; In charge of Global Auditing and Mazda Hospital	Koji Kurosawa
Director	Taizo Muta

Brief Personal Record of New Appointee of Director

Kazuaki Jono

Date of birth:		September 1, 1947
Career:	April 1970	Joined Hiroshima Prefecture
	April 2005	General Manager, General Affairs and Planning Dept., Hiroshima Prefecture
	April 2006	General Manager, General Affairs Dept., Hiroshima Prefecture
	April 2007	Vice Governor, Hiroshima Prefecture
	April 2014	Advisor, Hiroshima Prefectural Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (to present)

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