Directors and Executive Officers to Change

Jan. 31, 2012

Tokyo, January 31, 2012— Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has announced that, based on decisions made at a Board of Directors meeting earlier today, Mitsutoshi Takao, Senior Vice President, will be appointed Senior Executive Vice President, and Senior Vice Presidents Yuichi Asano and Toshikazu Hayashi will be appointed Directors effective April 1, 2012. Asano and Hayashi will resign as Directors to become Advisors in late June 2012.


The Kawasaki Board of Directors also decided today that Managing Executive Officers Masahiko Hirohata and Yoshinori Kanehana, and Executive Officers Joji Iki and Eiji Inoue will be nominated as Directors at the Kawasaki Shareholders’ Meeting in late June 2012. Subject to approval at that meeting, they will then be appointed Senior Vice Presidents. The Company will also nominate Yuji Murakami as Corporate Auditor at the Shareholders’ Meeting. Current Corporate Auditor Nobuyuki Okazaki will resign after that meeting.


Projected Board of Directors

(effective in late June 2012)


Tadaharu Ohashi

Chairman


Satoshi Hasegawa*

President

Masashi Segawa*

Senior Executive Vice President


Mitsutoshi Takao*

Senior Executive Vice President


Nobumitsu Kambayashi*

Senior Vice President


Kyohei Matsuoka*

Senior Vice President


Hiroshi Takata*

Senior Vice President


Shigeru Murayama*

Senior Vice President


Makoto Sonoda*

Senior Vice President


Joji Iki*

Senior Vice President


Masahiko Hirohata

Senior Vice President


Eiji Inoue*

Senior Vice President


Yoshinori Kanehana

Senior Vice President


  *Representative Director


New corporate auditor to be nominated

Yuji Murakami


Retiring corporate auditor

Nobuyuki Okazaki



The Company also announced today that the following management changes will become effective April 1, 2012:

 

New managing executive officers to be appointed

Joji Iki

President

Gas Turbine & Machinery Company

(currently General Manager

Machinery Division

Gas Turbine & Machinery Company)


Eiji Inoue

President

Plant & Infrastructure Company

(currently Vice President

Plant & Infrastructure Company)


 

Managing executive officer to be appointed to new position

Yoshinori Kanehana

General Manager

Marketing Division

(currently Vice President

Rolling Stock Company)



New executive officers to be appointed

Yugo Nakagami

(currently General Manager

Industrial Plant Engineering Division

Plant & Infrastructure Company)


Hirokazu Komaki

(currently General Manager

Engineering Division

Aerospace Company)


Shiro Nakabayashi

(currently General Manager

Corporate Business Development Division)


Munenori Ishikawa

(currently General Manager

Manufacturing Division

Aerospace Company)


Toshiyuki Kuyama

(currently Deputy General Manager

Gas Turbine Division

Gas Turbine & Machinery Company)


Shigehiko Kiyama

(currently General Manager

Supply Chain Division

Motorcycle & Engine Company)


Kenji Tomida

(currently Deputy General Manager

Corporate Planning Division)


Retiring executive officer

Yukio Hayano