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Kobe Steel Announces Selection of Independent Committee Members for Policy on Acts of Substantial Purchases of Company Shares (Takeover Defense Measure)
May 19, 2006
Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that at its Board of Directors' meeting held today,
the Company decided on the selection of members for the Independent Committee.
At the Board of Directors' meeting held on April 27, 2006, Kobe Steel decided
to adopt a policy on acts of substantial purchases of Company shares (takeover
defense measure). A portion of the defense measure consists of the formation of
an Independent Committee. The members of the Committee are as follows:
Takaharu Dohi
April 1958
Appointed as prosecutor
July 1993
Superintending Prosecutor, Osaka
High Public Prosecutors Office
July 1995
Superintending Prosecutor, Tokyo
High Public Prosecutors Office
January 1996
Prosecutor-General, Supreme Public
Prosecutors Office
June 1998
Retirement
July 1998
Attorney registration (to present)
Junji Tsumura
April 1958
Entered Toyobo Co., Ltd.
June 1990
Director
June 1995
Managing Director
June 1997
Senior Managing Director
June 1999
President
June 2005
Chairman (current position)
Tadao Kagono
March 1970
Graduated from Faculty of Business
Administration, Kobe University
April 1979
Associate Professor, Faculty
of Business Administration, Kobe University
November 1988
Professor, Faculty of Business
Administration, Kobe University
April 1998
Dean, Faculty of Business Administration,
Kobe University
April 1999
Dean, Graduate School of Business
Administration, Kobe University Professor (current position)
Kobe Steel Announces Selection of Independent Committee Members for Policy on Acts of Substantial Purchases of Company Shares (Takeover Defense Measure)