Directors and Executive Officers | Yaskawa group profile | About Yaskawa

Representative Director,

Chairman of the Board
Junji Tsuda

Koichi Takamiya

March 1976	Joined the Company
June 2005	Director, General Manager, Drives Div.,
	Motion Control Div.
June 2009	Managing Director, General Manager, Robotics Div.
March 2010	President (Representative Director)
March 2013	Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, President
March 2016	Representative Director, Chairman of the Board (incumbent)

Representative Director, President
Hiroshi Ogasawara

March 1979	Joined the Company
June 2006	Director
March 2007	Director, General Manager, Drives Div.
March 2011	Director, General Manager, Motion Control Div.
June 2013	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President
March 2014	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President,
	General Manager, Technology & Development Div.
March 2015	Representative Director, Corporate Executive Vice President,
	General Manager, Technology & Development Div.
March 2016	Representative Director, President,
	General Manager, Technology & Development Div.
March 2017	Representative Director, President, In charge of
	Human Resources Development, Manager, Diversity Management Div.
March 2018	Representative Director, President, In charge of
	Human Resources Development, Manager, ICT Strategy Div. (incumbent)

Representative Director,
Corporate Executive Vice President
Shuji Murakami

March 1982	Joined the Company
June 2008	Director, Manager, Corporate Planning Div.
June 2012	Director, Corporate Vice President
March 2014	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President
March 2016	Representative Director, Corporate Executive Vice President
March 2017	Representative Director, Corporate Executive Vice President,
	In charge of CSR & Compliance, In charge of Administration, General Manager, Corporate Planning Div.
March 2020	Representative Director, Corporate Executive Vice President,
	in charge of CSR, In charge of Administration, General Manager, Corporate Planning Div. (incumbent)

Director,

Corporate Senior Vice President
Yoshikatsu Minami

December 1983	Joined the Company
June 2008	Director
June 2012	Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Robotics Div.
June 2015	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President
March 2017	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President,
	In charge of ICT strategy, General Manager, Production Management & Operations Div., General Manager, Export Administration Div.
March 2018	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President,
	General Manager, Production Management & Operations Div., General Manager, Export Administration Div.
March 2020	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President,
	General Manager, Production Management & Operations Div., General Manager, Export & Import Administration Div.(incumbent)

Director,

Corporate Senior Vice President
Masahiro Ogawa

March 1987	Joined the Company
December 2010	Chairman, YASKAWA AMERICA, Inc.
June 2012	Corporate Vice President
March 2016	Corporate Vice President, General Manager,
	Robotics Div.
	Chairman of the Board of Directors, YASKAWA
	SHOUGANG ROBOT CO., LTD. (incumbent)
March 2019	Corporate Vice President, General Manager,
	Robotics Div., General Manager, Control
	Technology Div., Robotics Div.
May 2019	Director
March 2020	Director, Corporate Senior Vice President, General
	Manager, Robotics Div., General Manager, Control
	Technology Div., Robotics Div. (incumbent)

Director,

Member of the Audit and Supervisory
Committee (full-time)
Yuji Nakayama

March 1983	Joined the Company
June 2010	Director, General Manager, Accounting Div.
June 2012	Corporate Vice President
June 2013	Director, Corporate Vice President
March 2017	Director, Corporate Vice President, General Manager,
	Human Resources & General Affairs Div.
March 2019	Director, Corporate Vice President, In charge of
	Human Resources & General Affairs Div. and audit
May 2019	Director, Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee (full-time, incumbent)

Director,

Member of the Audit and Supervisory
Committee (full-time)
Koichi Tsukahata

March 1985	Joined the Company
March 2009	Motion Control Div., General Manager, Yahata Factory
June 2010	Deputy General Manager, Motion Control Div.
March 2013	Trustee, Director, President,
	YASKAWA ELECTRIC (SHENYANG) CO., LTD.
March 2018	Trustee, In charge of audit
May 2018	Director, Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee (full-time, incumbent)

Outside Director,

Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Yoshiki Akita

September 1984	Registered as a Certified Public Accountant
March 2006	Outside Director, Bell-Park Co., Ltd. (incumbent)
September 2007	Representative Director and Chairman
	and Executive Director, Layers Consulting Co., Ltd. (incumbent)
June 2012	Outside Director of the Company
June 2015	Outside Director, Member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee (incumbent)

Outside Director,

Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Junko Sasaki

April 1983	Joined IBM Japan Ltd
January 2007	Executive Officer, APAC & Japan Technical Sales Support, IBM Japan Ltd
January 2011	Joined Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.
	Executive, General Manager, Customer Service & Support
December 2016	Joined Sartorius Japan K.K. President & CEO
May 2018	Outside Director, Member of the Audit
	and Supervisory Committee of the Company (incumbent)
June 2019	External Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank,
	Limited (incumbent)

Outside Director,

Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Hideo Tsukamoto

April 2003	Entered the Legal Training and Research Institute, Supreme Court of Japan
October 2004	Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute,
	Supreme Court of Japan(57th Term),
	Registered as an Attorney (member of Daini Tokyo Bar Association),
	Joined Anderson Mori Law Office (currently Anderson Mori & Tomotsune LPC)
November 2010	Worked at Civil Affairs Bureau, the Ministry of Justice
	(in charge of planning and formulation of Revised Companies Act)
January 2013	Partner, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune LPC (incumbent)
April 2014	Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo
January 2016	Expert Member, Case Study Committee,
	The Japan Audit & Supervisory Board Members Association (incumbent)
December 2017	Member (2nd term), Corporate Governance System (CGS) Workshop,
	the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (incumbent)
June 2018	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member,
	JA MITSUI LEASING, LTD. (incumbent)
May 2019	Outside Director, Member of the Audit
	and Supervisory Committee of the Company (incumbent)

Outside Director,

Member of the Audit
and Supervisory Committee
Yuichiro Kato

April 1992	Joined Nichirei Corporation
April 1995	Joined DAIKO ADVERTISING INC.
April 2003	Associate professor of industrial strategy
	engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
	Nagoya Institute of Technology
	Visiting researcher, Business Knowledge Bureau,
	DAIKO ADVERTISING INC.
January 2015	Member, The Deming Prize Examination
	Committee, Union of Japanese Scientists and
	Engineers (incumbent)
October 2015	Representative Partner, Brand Design LLC
	(currently Brand Design Co., Ltd.)
	Specially-appointed professor,
	Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration
	Center, Nagoya Institute of Technology
April 2018	Professor, Vocational Ability Development Institute,
	Polytechnic University administrated by the
	Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
	Member, The Japan Quality Recognition Prize
	Examination Committee, Union of Japanese
	Scientists and Engineers (incumbent)
November 2018	Representative Director, Brand Design Co., Ltd. (incumbent)
June 2019	Professor, Project for Organization for Co-Creation
	Research and Social Contribution, Nagoya Institute
	of Technology (incumbent)