Kubota : Notice of Candidates for the Board of Directors（146KB）

November 9, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: IR Section

Corporate Planning & Control Dept.

2-47, Shikitsuhigashi 1-chome,

Naniwa-ku, Osaka 556-8601, Japan

Phone: [phone]

Notice of Candidates for the Board of Directors

Kubota Corporation (hereinafter "the Company") has resolved at the Meeting of Board of Directors held on November 9, 2022 to propose the following persons as candidates for the Board of Directors at the 133rd Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in late March 2023.

1) Candidates for the Board of Directors

Name	Current responsibility
Yuichi Kitao	President and Representative Director
Masato Yoshikawa	Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Dai Watanabe	Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer
(To be Director and Executive Vice President as of January 1, 2023)
Hiroto Kimura	Director and Managing Executive Officer
(To be Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer as of January 1, 2023)
Eiji Yoshioka	Senior Managing Executive Officer
(New nomination for Director)
Shingo Hanada	Managing Executive Officer
(New nomination for Director)
Yuzuru Matsuda	Outside Director
Koichi Ina	Outside Director
Yutaro Shintaku	Outside Director
Kumi Arakane	Outside Director
	Outside Director of Bandai Namco Holdings Inc.
	Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member) of COMSYS Holdings
Koichi Kawana	Corporation
Outside Director of TOKYO ELECTRON DEVICE LIMITED
	External Director of RENOVA, Inc.
	(New nomination for Outside Director)
Mr. Yuzuru Matsuda, Mr. Koichi Ina, Mr. Yutaro Shintaku, Ms. Kumi Arakane and Mr. Koichi Kawana
are candidates for Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member.

1. Retirement of Directors (Expiration of the term of office)

Name	After retirement
Masatoshi Kimata	Special Corporate Advisor
Toshihiko Kurosawa	Advisor

< Cautionary Statements with Respect to Forward-Looking Statements >

This document may contain forward-looking statements that are based on management's expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future results may differ materially from what is forecast in forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation: general economic conditions in the Company's markets, particularly government agricultural policies, levels of capital expenditures, both in public and private sectors, foreign currency exchange rates, the occurrence of natural disasters, continued competitive pricing pressures in the marketplace, as well as the Company's ability to continue to gain acceptance of its products.

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