Kubota : Notice of Candidates for the Board of Directors

November 30, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: IR Group

Global Management Promotion Dept.

2-47, Shikitsuhigashi 1-chome,

Naniwa-ku, Osaka 556-8601, Japan

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Notice of Candidates for the Board of Directors

Kubota Corporation (hereinafter "the Company") has resolved at the Extraordinary Meeting of the Board of Directors held on November 30, 2018 to propose the following persons as candidates for the Board of Directors at the 129th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in late March 2019.

1) Candidates for the Board of Directors ＜Date of assuming office: late March 2019 (to be scheduled)＞

Name	Current responsibility
Masatoshi Kimata	President and Representative Director
Yuichi Kitao	Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer
(To be Representative Director and Executive Vice President as of January
1,2019)
Masato Yoshikawa	Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer
Shinji Sasaki	Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer
Toshihiko Kurosawa	Managing Executive Officer
(New nomination for Director,
To be Senior Managing Executive Officer as of January 1,2019)
Dai Watanabe	Managing Executive Officer
(New nomination for Director,
To be Senior Managing Executive Officer as of January 1,2019)
Yuzuru Matsuda	Outside Director
Koichi Ina	Outside Director
Yutaro Shintaku	Outside Director

2) Retirement of Directors (Expiration of the term of office)

＜Date of retirement: late March 2019 (to be scheduled)＞

Name	After retirement
Toshihiro Kubo	Adviser
Shigeru Kimura	Adviser
Kenshiro Ogawa	Adviser

< 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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