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Yoshiji KIMURA Representative Director of the Board and Chief Executive Officer MEDINET Co., Ltd. (TSE-Mothers #2370) 2-5-14, Shin-Yokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Tel: +81 (0)45-478-0041 (Switch Board) Email : [email protected] Announcement of New Management Structure MEDINET Co., Ltd. (“MEDINET”) announced today that it resolved at the Board Meeting to make organization change and to assign new responsibilities as stated below:- 1. New Management Structure Yoshiji KIMURA remains as Representative Director of the Board and Chief Executive Officer（CEO） to be in charge of Corporate Strategy and Management Policy under future business prospects. Kiyoshi YOKOKAWA has been appointed to a new Representative Director of the Board and Chief Operating Officer（COO） to conduct overall business operations, based upon the Corporate Strategy. By distinguishing each role of the Representative Director of the Board, it will become more efficient and responsive management structure for decision-making of the Corporate Strategy and the Operations, which leads future reinforcement of business infrastructure. In light of recent development in business environment, MEDINET revises each responsibility of other Members of the Board of Directors in order to establish new management structure. Yoshiaki HARUYAMA, as Chief Business Officer (CBO,) controls operations in Sales and Cell Processing in order to strengthen revenue base and to accelerate business in Cell Therapy. Seikyo TSUNEKAWA, as Chief Technical Officer (CTO,) supervises R&D and IP & Legal matters in order to swiftly commercialize accomplishments of the R&D. Daisuke HARA, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO,) controls over Administration and Financial Operations in order to support business infrastructure and to make effective use of all management resources by Resource Management. This is an abridged translation of abstract of MEDINET’s press. It made its best efforts to translate with accuracy but it does not mean the translation is as same as the original. This press release was created for the purpose of providing information that will help investors make informed decisions. It was not created to solicit investors to buy or sell MEDINET’s share. The final decision and responsibility for investments rests solely with the user of this release and its content. Furthermore, opinions, forecasts and other content found on this release are based on assumptions and beliefs of MEDINET at the time of preparation. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information described on this release, MEDINET assumes no responsibility, whatsoever, for any losses resulting from the use of this release or its description. and Chief Executive Officer Representative Director of the Board Dr. Yokokawa, earning his M.D. from School of Medicine at Osaka University in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University in 1984, joined MEDINET in February 2004 as Chief Research & Development Officer and built his career at the company as Chief Business Officer in December 2004 and as Chief Medical Officer in December 2006. He has contributed to MEDINET in enhancing its scientific evidences in Immuno-Cell Therapy by launching numbers of clinical studies. Since 2003, he has also served as a medical doctor at SETA Clinic Group, which specializes in Immuno-Cell Therapy as a cancer treatment while serving at MEDINET. Prior to his career stated above, Dr. Yokokawa joined R&D Office at Takeda America, a U.S.-based affiliated company of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. in 1995, moved to Takeda Chemical Industry, Osaka, Japan in 1996 and conducted clinical trials to file anticancer drugs such as Leuprolide for prostate cancer and breast cancer as a General Manager from 1997 to 1998. In 1992, he joined Sandoz Yakuhin and started the clinical trials of Sandimmune-Neoral, indications of which in Japan are aplastic anemia, psoriasis, kidney, liver and bone-marrow transplantation. Dr. Yokokawa started his doctoral career in 1978 as a resident at Division of Urology, Osaka University Hospital and specialized in Neurology of genito-urinary organ in his six-year career at the hospital. His dissertation in researching peptidergic neuroanatomy honored him to gain his Ph. D. while working at Urological Surgery Section of Osaka Kouseinennkin Hospital. This is an abridged translation of abstract of MEDINET’s press. It made its best efforts to translate with accuracy but it does not mean the translation is as same as the original. This press release was created for the purpose of providing information that will help investors make informed decisions. It was not created to solicit investors to buy or sell MEDINET’s share. The final decision and responsibility for investments rests solely with the user of this release and its content. Furthermore, opinions, forecasts and other content found on this release are based on assumptions and beliefs of MEDINET at the time of preparation. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information described on this release, MEDINET assumes no responsibility, whatsoever, for any losses resulting from the use of this release or its description.

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