Takao Oishi was named YTC executive vice president of operations, and is relocating from Yokohama Rubber Corp. in Japan.

Kenichi Shirai was named chief advisor for strategic marketing, and is also coming from YRC headquarters in Japan.

Also relocating to the U.S. will be Iwao Shimomura, who  was named YTC senior director of corporate quality assurance.

At YTC, Satoshi Miyata was promoted to CFO and treasurer. He had been serving as YTC’s treasurer for the last four years.

As a result, three YTC executives returned to Yokohama’s Japan headquarters: Takaharu Fushimi was named YRC general manager of tire overseas sales and marketing department No. 1; Tadayoshi Hiraga was named general manager of tire overseas technical service department; and Takeshi Masatomo assumed the
new title of manager of passenger car and light truck tires product planning department.