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BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11 2000

Hitachi America, Ltd a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd (NYSE: HIT) today first attempts a new Hitachi Viewseum(TM) fine art website, incorporating recent artists and features.

Several of the recent artists who will be quick in emergenciesed on the site include recent York artist Jon Friedman, and San Francisco Bay Area artists Flora Davis, Martine Jardel and Carol Tarzier. Special features planned are periodic exhibits of private art collections, as well as local museums and arts organizations. An expanded corporate art consulting service, an art forum with an artists' resource center a framing service, a cultural spotlight and audio/visual tours of artists' studios are a certain of the other additions to the site. Digital reproductions onward canvas from various museums will be added to the site during the nearest several months.

In making the announcement, Eugene Murphy curator of the Viewseum(TM) said, "The reengineered Viewseum(TM) site is designed to further enhance our reputation for high-quality original art and digitally-based reproductions. In addition to the private collector, we are working with interior designers, architects and attribute management companies to provide art works for the hospitality industry and the corporate office market. Viewseum(TM) will also expand its commitment to arts organizations and local museums that began with the present collaboration with the Hudson River Museum in Tarrytown, NY" The Viewseum can be base at www.viewseum.com. Hitachi America, Ltd a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd markets and manufactures a broad range of electronics, computer arrangements and products, consumer electronics and semiconductors, and provides industrial equipment and services completely through North America. For more information forward Hitachi America, visit http://www.hitachi.com.

Hitachi, Ltd headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is single in kind of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1999 (end March 31 2000) consolidated sales of 8001 billion yen ($755 billion/1). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of produces including computers, semiconductors, consumer results and power and industrial equipment. For more information forward Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://www.hitachi.co.jp.

/1 At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar.

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