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MHI Selects New President

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Tokyo, February 6, 2013 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced that Shunichi Miyanaga, currently an MHI Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President, has been named the company's new President. The decision was made at a meeting of the Board of Directors held earlier today. Mr. Miyanaga will assume his new position on April 1, 2013.

Hideaki Omiya, MHI's current President, will become Chairman of the company succeeding Kazuo Tsukuda, who will become Senior Corporate Advisor.

Personal Biography of Shunichi Miyanaga

Date of Birth: April 27, 1948

Date Joined MHI: April 1, 1972

Career:
Oct. 1999        General Manager, Heavy Machinery Department, Machinery Headquarters
Oct. 2000        President of MHI-HITACHI Metals Machinery, Inc.
Apr. 2002        President of Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. (change of corporate name)
Jun. 2002        Retired from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Mar. 2006        Retired from the post of President of Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc.
Apr. 2006        Senior Vice President, Deputy Head of Machinery Headquarters, 
                          Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
May 2006        Senior Vice President, Deputy Head of Machinery & Steel Structures Headquarters
Apr. 2008        Executive Vice President, Head of Machinery & Steel Structures Headquarters
Jun. 2008        Member of the Board, Executive Vice President, Head of Machinery & Steel
                         Structures Headquarters
Apr. 2011        Member of the Board, Senior Executive Vice President, Head of the Presidential 
                         Administration Office (present position)


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