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Kobe Steel selects new representative directors

March 5, 2014

TOKYO, March 5, 2014 - Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that at its board of directors' meeting held today, it decided to make the following changes in its representative directors.

Changes in Representative Directors
Effective from April 1

Appointment of New Representative Director

Kazuhide Naraki

Current title Senior Managing Director
New title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Area of responsibility Head of the Machinery Business (unchanged)

Retiring Representative Directors

Ikuhiro Yamaguchi

Current title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
New title Executive Vice President
Area of responsibility Assistant to the President (Advisor, Shinsho Corporation)

Following the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders at Shinsho Corporation to be held in late June, Ikuhiro Yamaguchi will be appointed President and CEO of Shinsho Corporation

Hiroaki Fujiwara

Current title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
New title Executive Vice President
Area of responsibility Assistant to the president

Following the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in late June, Hiroaki Fujiwara will become an Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Kobe Steel.

Tetsu Takahashi

Current title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
New title Executive Vice President
Area of responsibility Assistant to the president

Following the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in late June, Tetsu Takahashi will become an Adviser at Kobe Steel.

Continuing Representative Directors

The following executives will continue as representative directors.

Hiroshi Sato

Title Chairman and Representative Director

Hiroya Kawasaki

Title President, CEO and Representative Director

Jun Tanaka

Title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Area of responsibility Head of the Engineering Business (unchanged)

Changes in Representative Directors
Effective from Late June

The representative directors after the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in late June are the five candidates below. They will be formally appointed after resolution at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders and at the board of directors meeting to be held afterward.

Hiroshi Sato

Title Chairman and Representative Director

Hiroya Kawasaki

Title President, CEO and Representative Director

Jun Tanaka

Title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Area of responsibility Head of the Engineering Business (unchanged)

Kazuhide Naraki

Title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Area of responsibility Head of the Machinery Business (unchanged)

Yoshinori Onoe

Title Executive Vice President and Representative Director
Area of responsibility Head of the Iron & Steel Business

Yoshinori Onoe, currently Executive Officer, will be appointed Executive Vice President and Head of the Iron & Steel Business from April 1. He is also a candidate for Executive Vice President and Representative Director subject to approval after the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in late June.