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NTT Com Announces Board of Directors Candidates

TOKYO, JAPAN - NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) today announced its board of directors candidates for eight continuing directors and 11 new directors, who will take office immediately following their pending approval at the Thirteenth Annual Shareholders' Meeting scheduled on June 15, 2012.

The 11 new candidates are indicated with an asterisk and their current positions are shown in parentheses.

President and CEO
Akira Arima

Senior Executive Vice Presidents
*Tetsuya Shoji¹ (Senior Vice President of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
*Jun Sawada (Executive Vice President)

Executive Vice President
*Toshiharu Hasebe (Senior Vice President)
*Kouichi Furukawa (Senior Vice President)
*Kiyoshi Mori

Senior Vice Presidents
Ryuichi Hara
Tetsuya Funabashi
Katsumi Nakata
Atsushi Ichihoshi
Masayoshi Hosokawa
*Yukio Ito (General Manager, Service Infrastructure and Corporate Planning)
*Toru Maruoka (General Manager, First Sales Division)
*Kazuhiko Aramoto (Deputy General Manager, Second Sales Division)
*Kazuhiro Gomi (Senior Manager, Global Sales Division and President & CEO of NTT America)
*Kazuhisa Igasaki (Senior Manager, Accounts and Finance Department, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)

Statutory Auditors
Tetsuo Nakayama
*Yoh Yusa
Koji Kainuma

The outgoing board members² are as follows:

Outgoing Senior Executive Vice President
Shinobu Umino (scheduled to take office as President of NTT COMWARE CORPORATION)
Sadao Maki (scheduled to take office as Senior Executive Vice President of NTT Urban Development Corporation)

Outgoing Executive Vice President
Takao Maezawa (scheduled to join NTTPC Communications, Inc.)

Outgoing Senior Vice Presidents
Masahiro Wakai (scheduled to join NTT Resonant Inc.)
Hiromi Wasai (scheduled to become NTT Communications Corporate Advisor)
Kouji Ito

Outgoing Statutory Auditor
Hideaki Sato

Note 1: Shoji Tetsuya will resign Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation on June 22 and take office as Senior Executive Vice President of NTT Com on the same day.

Note 2: Outgoing board members will resign at the end of the Thirteenth Annual General Shareholders' Meeting on June 15, 2012.