Tokyo, February 4, 2014 – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501; “Hitachi”) today announced that it determined, at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, to repurchase its own shares, pursuant to its Articles of Incorporation in accordance with Article 459, paragraph 1 of the Companies Act of Japan.

1. Purpose of Repurchase

As announced in Hitachi’s news release “Hitachi and Hitachi Medical Announce Share Exchange as Method of Making Hitachi Medical a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Hitachi” on January 30, 2014, Hitachi has decided to implement a share exchange with Hitachi to be the wholly-owning parent company and Hitachi Medical Corporation (TSE: 6910; “Hitachi Medical”) to be the wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Share Exchange”). Hitachi will repurchase its own shares in order to allot them to all or part of shares which Hitachi allots to Hitachi Medical shareholders related to the Share Exchange.

2. Outline of Repurchase

1. Class of shares to be repurchased: Common stock of Hitachi, Ltd.
2. Aggregate number of shares to be repurchased: Up to 5 million shares
   (0.10% of the number of outstanding shares (excluding treasury stocks))
3. Aggregate amount of repurchase: Up to 5,000 million yen
4. Period of repurchase: From February 5, 2014 to March 31, 2014
5. Method of repurchase: Purchase at market

(Reference)Treasury stocks held by Hitachi as of December 31, 2013

- Number of outstanding shares (excluding treasury stocks): 4,830,131,241 shares
- Number of treasury stocks: 3,332,146 shares

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9,041 billion yen ($96.1 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional material & components, automotive systems and others.
For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com .

Press Contacts:

Japan

Tamie Nagamoto
Hitachi, Ltd.
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• tamie.nagamoto.mc@hitachi.com

USA

Mickey Takeuchi
Hitachi America, Ltd.
+1-914-333-2987

• masayuki.takeuchi@hal.hitachi.com

Tokyo, February 4, 2014 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today announced the following organization changes and executive changes in accordance with a resolution passed by a meeting of the Board of Directors.

1. Organization Changes [Effective April 1, 2014]

• Hitachi Group Headquarters for Post-earthquake Reconstruction and Redevelopment will be discontinued.
• Healthcare Business Strategy Division will be discontinued, and Health Care Group and Health Care Company will be established.

2. Executive Changes

(1) Promotion [Effective April 1, 2014]

* Executives are listed by position and in Japanese alphabetical order of surname within each grouping.

Tatsuro Ishizuka
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Power Systems Group, President & CEO of Infrastructure Systems Group, CTrO, and Deputy General Manager of Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division
Current Position:
Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Business Incubation, President & CEO of Power Systems Group and Power Systems Company, CTrO, and Deputy General Manager of Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division

Yutaka Saito
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Group and Information & Telecommunication Systems Company
Current Position:
Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group

Ryuichi Kitayama
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, CMO, and General Manager of Corporate Sales & Marketing Group
Current Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, Deputy General Manager of Corporate Sales & Marketing Group, and Project Leader of Sales Operations Transformation Project, Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division

(2) Reappointment [Effective April 1, 2014]

Masahiro Kitano
New Position:
Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Health Care Group and Health Care Company
Current Position:
President and CEO, and Director, Hitachi Medical Corporation

Kaichiro Sakuma
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, Vice President of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group, and Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.
Current Position:
Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hitachi Solutions, Ltd.

(3) New Appointment [Effective April 1, 2014]

Kenichi Kokubo
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, Chief Executive for China
Current Position:
Chief Executive for China

Yoshitaka Tsuda
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, CMO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group, and General Manager of Sales Management & Accounting Division Group, Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group
Current Position:
CMO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group, and General Manager of Sales Management & Accounting Division Group, Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group

Hidenobu Nakahata
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, CHRO, and General Manager of Human Capital Group
Current Position:
Deputy General Manager of Human Capital Group

Katsumi Nagasawa
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Power Systems Company, Power Systems Group
Current Position:
General Manager of Hitachi Works, and CEO of Power & Industrial Systems, Medical Systems and Nuclear Equipment Division, Power Systems Company, Power Systems Group

(4) Changes of Position [Effective April 1, 2014]

* Underlined positions will be changed

Hiroaki Nakanishi
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Chairman & CEO
* Changes except for General Manager of Hitachi Group Headquarters for Post-earthquake Reconstruction and Redevelopment, Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division, and Healthcare Business Strategy Division have been announced on January 8, 2014.
Current Position:
Representative Executive Officer and President, General Manager of Hitachi Group Headquarters for Post-earthquake Reconstruction and Redevelopment, Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division, and Healthcare Business Strategy Division

Toshiaki Higashihara
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, President & COO, and General Manager of Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division
* Changes except for General Manager of Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division have been announced on January 8, 2014>
Current Position:
Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Medical Systems Business, President & CEO of Infrastructure Systems Group and Infrastructure Systems Company

Shinjiro Iwata
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, CIO, and General Manager of End-to-End Supply Chain Project Division
Current Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Group, CIO, and General manager of End-to-End Supply Chain Project Division

Koji Tanaka
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Strengthening of Products
Current Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Power Systems Business, and Infrastructure Systems Business

Toshiaki Kuzuoka
New Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, General Counsel & Head of Corporate Communication, Head of Risk Management, General Manager of Legal and Communications Group, and General Manager of Risk Management Group
Current Position:
Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, General Counsel & Head of Corporate Communication, Head of Risk Management, General Manager of Legal and Communications Group, General Manager of Risk Management Group, and Deputy General Manager of Hitachi Group Headquarters for Post-earthquake Reconstruction and Redevelopment

Toshikazu Nishino
New Position:
Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, CSO, General Manager of Strategy Planning Division, and Deputy General Manager of End-to-End Supply Chain Project Division
Current Position:
Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, CSO, General Manager of Strategy Planning Division, General Manager of Business Planning Division, Healthcare Business Strategy Division, and Deputy General Manager of End-to-End Supply Chain Project Division

Kazuhiro Kurihara
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Marketing and Sales, General Manager of Social Innovation Business Project Division, Service Businesses Incubation Division, and Smart City Project Division
Current Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Marketing and Sales, and Medical Systems Business, General Manager of Social Innovation Business Project Division, Service Businesses Incubation Division, and Smart City Project Division

Keiji Kojima
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, CTO, and General Manager of Research & Development Group
Current Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, General Manager of Hitachi Research Laboratory, Research & Development Group

Kunizo Sakai
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Infrastructure Systems Company, Infrastructure Systems Group
Current Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, CEO of Plant Systems, Infrastructure Systems Company, Infrastructure Systems Group

Keiichi Shiotsuka
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, CEO of Systems & Service Business, Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group
Current Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, CEO of Services Deployment Business, Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group

Hiroshi Nakayama
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, Head of MONOZUKURI & Quality Assurance
Current Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, President & CEO of Rail Systems Company, Infrastructure Systems Group

Masaya Watanabe
New Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Global Service Business Promotion of Information & Telecommunication Systems Business, Chairman of Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Systems Global Holding Corporation, and Chairman of Hitachi Consulting Corporation
Current Position:
Vice President and Executive Officer, CSO and CIO of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group

(5) Resignation [Effective March 31, 2014]

Shigeru Azuhata, currently Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of Medical Systems Business, CTO, and General Manager of Research & Development Group
* Scheduled to be appointed Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd., effective April 1, 2014.

Nobuo Mochida, currently Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, in charge of High Functional Materials & Components, and Automotive Systems Business, Head of MONOZUKURI & Quality Assurance
* Scheduled to be appointed Associate of Hitachi, Ltd., effective April 1, 2014.
* Mr. Mochida will be proposed as a Director candidate at Hitachi’s Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2014, and, upon approval at the Meeting, Mr. Mochida will assume the position of Director.

Masahide Tanigaki, currently Representative Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, CMO, and General Manager of Corporate Sales & Marketing Group
* Scheduled to be appointed Chairman of the Board, Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd., effective April 1, 2014.

Naoki Mitarai, currently Vice President and Executive Officer, CHRO, General Manager of Human Capital Group, and Project Leader of Headquarters Transformation Project and Global Human Resources Transformation Project, Smart Transformation Project Initiatives Division
* Scheduled to be appointed Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, effective April 1, 2014.

Yoshihiko Mogami, currently Vice President and Executive Officer, Vice President of Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, and CEO of System Solutions Business, Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group
* Scheduled to be appointed Senior Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi Transport System, Ltd., effective April 1, 2014.

For more information, please click here http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/f_140204b.pdf

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9,041 billion yen ($96.1 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional material & components, automotive systems and others.
For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com .

Press Contacts:

Japan

Yoji Maruo
Hitachi, Ltd.
+81-3-5208-9324

• yoji.maruo.pt@hitachi.com

USA

Mickey Takeuchi
Hitachi America, Ltd.
+1-914-333-2987

• masayuki.takeuchi@hal.hitachi.com

Tokyo, February 4, 2014 – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today announced director candidates in accordance with a decision taken at a meeting of Nominating Committee convened today, subject to approval at Hitachi’s Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2014.

1. Director Candidates [* New]

Proposed at Hitachi’s Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 2014
Note: Director Candidates are listed in Japanese alphabetical order of surname within each grouping.

<Outside Director>

Nobuo Katsumata, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Senior Corporate Advisor of Marubeni Corporation

Cynthia Carroll, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Non-Executive Director of BP plc. (UK)

Sadayuki Sakakibara, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Chairman of the Board and Representative Member of the Board, Toray Industries, Inc.

George Buckley, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Chairman of Arle Capital Partners Limited (UK)

Harufumi Mochizuki, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd., President and Representative Director of Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Co., Ltd.

Philip Yeo, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Chairman of SPRING Singapore

*Hiroaki Yoshihara, former Vice Chairman of KPMG International

<Director>

Hiroaki Nakanishi, currently Director, Representative Executive Officer and President of Hitachi, Ltd.

Takashi Hatchoji, currently Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Chairman of the Board of Hitachi America, Ltd.

*Toshiaki Higashihara, currently Senior Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd.

Takashi Miyoshi, currently Director of Hitachi, Ltd.

*Nobuo Mochida, currently Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd.

2. Retiring Directors

Takashi Kawamura, currently Chairman of the Board of Hitachi, Ltd.

Yoshie Ota, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd.

Tohru Motobayashi, currently Outside Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Attorney at law, Partner of Ihara and Motobayashi

Michijiro Kikawa, currently Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Chairman of the Board of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Stephen Gomersall, currently Director of Hitachi, Ltd., Deputy Chairman of Hitachi Europe Ltd.

3. Biography of New Director Candidates

Hiroaki Yoshihara

Toshiaki Higashihara

Nobuo Mochida

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9,041 billion yen ($96.1 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional material & components, automotive systems and others.
For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com .

Press Contacts:

Japan

Yoji Maruo
Hitachi, Ltd.
+81-3-5208-9324

• 
  yoji.maruo.pt@hitachi.com

USA

Mickey Takeuchi
Hitachi America, Ltd.
+1-914-333-2987

• masayuki.takeuchi@hal.hitachi.com

Tokyo, February 4, 2014 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today announced its consolidated financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2013, ended December 31, 2013.

Notes:

1. All figures, except for the outlook for fiscal 2013, were converted at the rate of 105 yen to the U.S. dollar, the approximate exchange rate on the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market as of December 30, 2013.
2. Operating income is presented in accordance with financial reporting principles and practices generally accepted in Japan.

For more information, please click here http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/140204.html

Press Contacts:

Japan

Yoji Maruo
Hitachi, Ltd.
+81-3-5208-9324

• yoji.maruo.pt@hitachi.com

USA

Mickey Takeuchi
Hitachi America, Ltd.
+1-914-333-2987

• masayuki.takeuchi@hal.hitachi.com

Tokyo, February 6, 2014 – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501; “Hitachi”) and Hitachi Medical Corporation (TSE: 6910; “Hitachi Medical”) determined on January 30, 2014 the method for making Hitachi Medical a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi to be a share exchange with Hitachi as the wholly-owning parent company and Hitachi Medical as the wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Share Exchange”). They today announced that they have reached agreement on the exchange ratio, the effective date and other detailed matters of the Share Exchange and that they have concluded a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”).

Both companies plan to implement the Share Exchange without obtaining approval by resolution of a General Meeting of Shareholders, with Hitachi using a simplified share exchange (kani kabushiki kokan) procedure pursuant to Article 796, Paragraph 3 of the Companies Act of Japan, and Hitachi Medical using a short-form share exchange (ryakushiki kabushiki kokan) procedure pursuant to Article 784, Paragraph 1 of the Companies Act of Japan.

Hitachi Medical shares will be delisted on February 26, 2014 (the final trading date will be February 25, 2014) prior to the effective date of the Share Exchange (March 1, 2014).

For more information, please click here http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/f_140206.pdf

Press Contacts:

Hitachi

Tamie Nagamoto
+81-3-5208-9323

• 
  tamie.nagamoto.mc@hitachi.com

Hitachi Medical

Legal & Corporate
Communication Department
+81-3-3526-8809

First pilot installation of CrystEna planned outside of Philadelphia

Tarrytown, New York and New Milford, Connecticut, March 28, 2014 --- Hitachi America, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (“Hitachi” / TSE:6501) and Demansys Energy LLC (“Demansys”) today announced that they have reached an agreement to perform a demonstration project utilizing Hitachi’s “CrystEna” compact container-type energy storage system in the market for frequency regulation and capacity services*2, and that site installation work will soon commence. The demonstration, which is designed to confirm the benefits of using the CrystEna energy storage system for grid stabilization, will run for two years, beginning in June 2014.

Recently, regulators, grid operators, utilities, and research organizations have projected the need for additional grid storage systems to help ensure reliable power system operation as an increasing percentage of intermittent energy sources, such as wind and photovoltaic power generation, are brought on-line. Throughout the USA, numerous new entrants, including storage resources, are demonstrating their ability to provide frequency regulation and capacity services.

Hitachi’s CrystEna is a complete energy storage system. The system was developed with an emphasis on long operating life, providing significant commercial value. It uses Hitachi’s control systems and power conditioning systems (PCS), and lithium-ion batteries from Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.(TSE:4217). Its enhanced economics are due to both its compact design and system performance improvements.

Demansys is participating in frequency regulation and reserves programs throughout the Northeastern US, using its Grid Daemon platform to supply grid operators with highly-reliable services involving real-time control and management of energy storage and behind-the-meter energy assets. It also has the ability to provide capacity services and plans to do so from the New Jersey-based demonstration project.

Demansys will be responsible for overall coordination of the new demonstration project. The demonstration involves the installation of a Hitachi CrystEna system in New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia. To verify the system’s effectiveness for grid stabilization, the demonstration will collect data over a two year period, including a capacity pilot project with PJM*3 and frequency regulation operation in PJM, the USA’s largest independent grid operator. The demonstration will be used by Hitachi to further evaluate its energy storage systems and to verify the systems’ reliability and effectiveness with a view to future commercialization.

Hitachi’s electric power transmission and distribution systems business is a core part of its power systems business. It is seeking to expand its solution business by combining IT and power electronics technology for control systems and other balance of plant. Hitachi anticipates applications for CrystEna at a wide range of facilities in the future, and is actively working to expand sales of all of its energy storage systems.

Demansys’ Grid Daemon has been used in a diverse range of commercial and industrial applications. Since October 2012, the company has participated in a pilot program in the New England frequency regulation market that controls consumer loads in order to regulate frequency without the use of generators. By maximizing benefits for end users, as well as providing an interface for market transactions between grid operators and consumers, Demansys is contributing to a robust frequency regulation market utilizing numerous types of supply resources.

In announcing the demonstration project, Masaaki Nomoto, General Manager, Transmission & Distribution Systems Division, Power Systems Company, Hitachi, Ltd. said, “We are pleased to conduct the demonstration project in the USA. This demonstration represents another important milestone in the deployment of Hitachi’s battery storage business in the USA, and we will further pursue technically superior solutions to meet the requirements of various customers.”

Jeff Lines, Demansys CEO said, “At its core, Demansys is committed to enhancing the smart grid and creating value for its stakeholders. We are proud to partner with Hitachi on the CrystEna project and incorporate our Grid Daemon software platform to demonstrate the significant impact this energy storage system will have on grid stabilization.”

*1 Trademark registered in Japan. Application for trademark registration in USA currently pending.

*2 Capacity market: An auction through which grid operators secure a sufficient supply of capacity several years into the future from supply and demand-side resources. In PJM, rules are currently being developed for storage resources.

*3 PJM(PJM Interconnection LLC): Independent grid operator in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Covering a total of 13 states, it is the largest power system operator in North America. PJM is an abbreviation of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland.

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9,041 billion yen ($96.1 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional material & components, automotive systems and others. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.

About Hitachi America, Ltd.

Hitachi America, Ltd. headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and its subsidiary companies offer a broad range of electronics, power and industrial equipment and services, automotive products and consumer electronics with operations throughout the Americas. For more information, visit www.hitachi-america.us. For more information on other Hitachi Group companies in the United States, please visit http://www.hitachi.us/.

About Demansys Energy LLC

Demansys Energy LLC, a Connecticut-based company, is a provider of smart-grid services. Demansys provides turnkey solutions for advanced control of energy consumption, distributed generation, and storage resources, which creates additional revenue streams for end-use customers, as well as reliability products for utilities and grid operators. The Demansys Grid Daemon Platform was developed to continuously communicate with system operators and customers to seamlessly control demand-side energy resources and storage systems in real-time, using sophisticated proprietary algorithms. For more information, visit www.demansys.com.

Press Contacts:

Mickey Takeuchi
Hitachi America, Ltd.
+1-914-333-2987

• masayuki.takeuchi@hal.hitachi.com

Jennifer Meyer
Demansys Energy LLC
+1-603-508-0551

• jennifer@jmeyercomm.com

Data Management for the One of the Largest Oil Fields in the United States

Tarrytown, NY, March 31, 2014 — Hitachi America, Ltd. and the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) today announced that the two companies are partnering to develop technology-driven products, services, and solutions for enhancing the production of oil reserves from the Bakken petroleum system. Covering parts of North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, the Bakken petroleum system is estimated to hold hundreds of billions of barrels of oil.

With nearly 6000 unconventional Bakken petroleum system wells and nearly 200 drilling rigs in North Dakota alone, the sheer volume of data collected to date is staggering. Using powerful analytical tools to compile and evaluate Bakken data, oilfield operators and state officials can better understand the relationships between the productivity of an oil well and a variety of factors, such as how the well was drilled and the geology of the area in which it was drilled. These tools can also be used to identify previously unrecognized relationships in the data. In turn, this improved understanding will enable industry to improve the productivity of current and future Bakken wells.

Over the past several years, the EERC has conducted several research projects that have been geared toward both improving the productivity and efficiency of Bakken development and reducing its environmental footprint. Meanwhile, Hitachi has worked to develop analytical data tools for the conventional oil and gas industry. The two organizations recognized the unique, complementary skill sets that each other had and quickly identified the Bakken oil boom as an opportunity to collaboratively apply their combined expertise in ways that were beneficial for the industry.

“As an unconventional resource, there is much about the Bakken that remains unknown. However, we believe that through our partnership with Hitachi, we will be able to shed light on these unknowns and help guide the next round of discovery,” said John Harju, Associate Director of Research at the EERC.

“At Hitachi we believe in a customer-driven research model where we collaborate with leading industry players to understand the hard problems they face and apply our research techniques to help transform our customers business. This collaboration with EERC complements our in-house strengths in big data analytics with deep domain related expertise in shale oil and gas production. Such collaborations will prove to be instrumental for the success of our IT X OT Convergence program,” said Dr.Umeshwar Dayal, VP and Sr. Fellow Big Data Research Lab, Hitachi America Ltd.

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9041 billion yen (US$96.1 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on its social innovation business, which includes infrastructure systems, information and telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional material and components, automotive systems, and others. For more information, visit www.hitachi.com.

About Hitachi America, Ltd.

Hitachi America, Ltd. headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and its subsidiary companies offer a broad range of electronics, power and industrial equipment and services, automotive products and consumer electronics with operations throughout the Americas. For more information, visit www.hitachi-america.us. For more information on other Hitachi Group companies in the United States, please visit www.hitachi.us.

About the EERC

The EERC is a research, development, demonstration, and commercialization facility recognized as one of the world’s leading developers of cleaner, more efficient energy technologies as well as tools and approaches specifically focused on resource assessment and optimization of oil and gas exploration and production performance. The EERC, a high-tech, nonprofit division of the University of North Dakota, operates like a business and pursues an entrepreneurial, market-driven approach to research and development in order to successfully demonstrate and commercialize innovative technologies. For more information, see www.undeerc.org.

Press Contacts:

Mickey Takeuchi
Hitachi, Ltd.

• masayuki.takeuchi.cc@hitachi.com

Cindy Hecht
Hitachi America, Ltd.

• cindy.hecht@hal.hitachi.com

Farmington Hills, Michigan, May 5, 2014 --- Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc., the regional headquarters for the Americas within Hitachi Automotive Systems’ global operations – today announced that Hitachi Automotive Systems Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (President: Takumi Shimaoka) has begun the construction of a new plant in Lerma City, Mexico to manufacture automotive systems.

Mexico continues to develop as a base for automotive manufacturing throughout the Americas, including Latin America. The numbers of foreign car maker factories are increasing. As a result, there are greater demands of localization to respond quickly to the community needs and to secure production capacity in Mexico for automotive equipment system manufacturers. Furthermore, due to NAFTA (Mexico, United States and Canada’s North American Free Trade Agreement) and the Economic Complementation Agreement (ACE) No 55 regarding the automotive sector between Mexico and the member countries of the MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), there are tariff-free exports of automotive parts. This has led to enhanced introduction of automotive equipment system manufacturers into Mexico.

This new plant, 3^rd for the Company and 5^th for Hitachi Automotive Systems Group within Mexico, is being established to respond appropriately to support the production of vehicles in Mexico and to further strengthen the supply for the car makers throughout the Americas using the preferential trade agreement.

As a result of the establishment of the new plant, the Company will be securing approximately 180,000 square meters of land in Lerma City, Mexico. The Company will begin production of pistons for automotive parts as well as aluminum diecasts in May 2015. Further expansion of production is to be expected in the future.

Hitachi Automotive Systems will continue to work on establishing further expansion of the automotive equipment systems business in Mexico.

Overview of the new plant in Lerma, Mexico

Hitachi Automotive Systems Group in Mexico

About Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi America, Ltd., manufactures, remanufactures and markets a wide range of automotive systems including engine management systems, electric power train systems, drive control systems and car information systems for all major automotive original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket customers worldwide, providing leadership within Hitachi Automotive Systems’ global operations as the regional headquarters in the Americas. The company is headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI.

For more information, please visit www.hitachi-automotive.us.

About Hitachi America, Ltd.

Hitachi America, Ltd. headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and its subsidiary companies offer a broad range of electronics, power and industrial equipment and services, automotive products and consumer electronics with operations throughout the Americas. For more information, visit www.hitachi-america.us. For more information on other Hitachi Group companies in the United States, please visit www.hitachi.us.

About Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company is engaged in the development, manufacture, sales and services of automotive components, transportation related components, industrial machines and systems, and offers a wide range of automotive systems including engine management systems, electric power train systems, drive control systems and car information systems. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi-automotive.co.jp/en/.

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 326,000 employees worldwide. The company's consolidated revenues for fiscal 2012 (ended March 31, 2013) totaled 9,041 billion yen ($96.1 billion). Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional material & components, automotive systems and others.

For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.

Press Contacts:

Craig Fisher
Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.
+1-859-734-6448

• craig.fisher@hitachi-automotive.us

Tokyo, July 31, 2014 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today announced its consolidated financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2014, ended June 30, 2014.

Notes:

1. All figures, except for the outlook for full year and the first half of fiscal 2014, were converted at the rate of 101 yen to the U.S. dollar, the approximate exchange rate on the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market as of June 30, 2014.
2. Operating income is presented in accordance with financial reporting principles and practices generally accepted in Japan.

For more information, please click here http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2014/07/140731.html

Press Contacts:

Japan

Yoji Maruo
Hitachi, Ltd.
+81-3-5208-9324

• yoji.maruo.pt@hitachi.com

USA

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Hitachi America, Ltd.
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• tamie.nagamoto@hal.hitachi.com