Directors and Senior Management
Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members

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1.
Chairman of the Board
Masatoshi Kimata
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2.
President and Representative Director
Yuichi Kitao
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3.
Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Masato Yoshikawa
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4.
Director
Toshihiko Kurosawa
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5.
Director and Executive Vice President
Dai Watanabe
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6.
Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer
Hiroto Kimura
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7.
Outside Director
Yuzuru Matsuda
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8.
Outside Director
Koichi Ina
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9.
Outside Director
Yutaro Shintaku
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10.
Outside Director
Kumi Arakane
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11.
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Toshikazu Fukuyama
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12.
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Yasuhiko Hiyama
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13.
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Masashi Tsunematsu
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14.
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Yuichi Yamada
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15.
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Yuri Furusawa
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16.
Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Keijiro Kimura
Executive Officers
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Senior Managing Executive Officer
Yuji Tomiyama
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Senior Managing Executive Officer
Kazuhiro Kimura
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Senior Managing Executive Officer
Eiji Yoshioka
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Senior Managing Executive Officer
Nikhil Nanda
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Managing Executive Officer
Yasuo Nakata
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Managing Executive Officer
Takao Shomura
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Managing Executive Officer
Kazunari Shimokawa
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Managing Executive Officer
Mutsuo Uchida
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Managing Executive Officer
Nobuyuki Ishii
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Managing Executive Officer
Kazuhiro Shinabe
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Managing Executive Officer
Ryuichi Minami
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Managing Executive Officer
Yoshimitsu Ishibashi
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Managing Executive Officer
Yasukazu Kamada
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Managing Executive Officer
Katsuhiko Yukawa
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Managing Executive Officer
Ryoji Kuroda
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Managing Executive Officer
Muneji Okamoto
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Managing Executive Officer
Koichi Yamamoto
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Managing Executive Officer
Shingo Hanada
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Senior Executive Officer
Koichiro Kan
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Senior Executive Officer
Hirohiko Arai
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Senior Executive Officer
Tomohiro Iitsuka
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Senior Executive Officer
Kazushi Ito
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Senior Executive Officer
Mampei Yamamoto
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Senior Executive Officer
Nobushige Ichikawa
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Senior Executive Officer
Shinichi Fukuhara
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Senior Executive Officer
Hideki Mori
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Senior Executive Officer
Junji Ota
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Senior Executive Officer
Takanobu Azuma
Board Skills Matrix
Kubota Corporation Board of Directors member composition is from the perspective of maintaining an appropriate level for conducting effective discussion at Meetings of the Board of Directors, fulfilling the Board of Directors function, and ensuring diversity, and maintaining transparency and sound experience. It is important that based upon their diverse values, members of the Board of Directors utilize and compliment one another's knowledge, experience, and abilities. The following table shows the relationship between each member's expertise and experience, and the skills required for promoting Kubota's mid- and long-term strategies.
- 1. Experience in corporate management among the items of the list above refers to experience as president at a company listed on the first section of a stock market.
- 2. The attendance of the Meetings of the Board of Directors and the Audit & Supervisory Board held during fiscal 2021.
- 3. Ms. Kumi Arakane resigned from her position as Audit & Supervisory Board Member and assumed office as Director on March 19, 2021. She attended all 13 meetings of the Board of Directors as Director or Audit & Supervisory Board Member and all three Audit & Supervisory Board Meetings held during fiscal 2021 until her resignation as Audit & Supervisory Board Member.
- 4. Ms. Yuri Furusawa attended all 11 meetings of the Board of Directors and all 11 Audit & Supervisory Board Meetings held after her appointment on March 19, 2021.
- 5. Executive Officers in charge of the relevant fields attend the meetings of the Board of Directors, depending on the agenda, to provide explanations on those agendas in order to improve the effectiveness of the Board.