Sony Corp ( id="symbol_6758.T_0">6758.T) ( id="symbol_SNE.NSNE.N) plans to appoint Chugai Pharmaceutical Co ( id="symbol_4519.T4519.T) Chief Executive Osamu Nagayama as chairman, the Nikkei reported.
_0">Nagayama's appointment will be finalized on June 20 at a board meeting to be held immediately after a shareholders' meeting, the business daily said.
_1">Outgoing chairman Howard Stringer, who served as Sony's CEO between 2005 and 2012, will retire in June, the Japanese paper said.
_2">(Reporting by Aditi Shrivastava in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das)