Directors and Corporate Auditors to Change

Tokyo, May 22, 2018— Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has announced that, based on decisions made at a Board of Directors meeting earlier today, following executive officers will be nominated as Directors at the Kawasaki Shareholders’ Meeting in late June 2018. The Company will also nominate new Outside Directors in that meeting. Directors Kazuo Hida, Toshiyuki Kuyama, Makoto Ogawara and Yoshihiko Morita will resign after that meeting. Hida, Kuyama and Ogawara will then become Advisors.

New directors to be nominated

Sukeyuki Namiki
Managing Executive Officer

Yasuhiko Hashimoto
Managing Executive Officer

New Outside directors to be nominated

Yoshiaki Tamura

Jenifer Rogers

Retiring directors

Kazuo Hida

Toshiyuki Kuyama

Makoto Ogawara

Yoshihiko Morita

Projected Board members

 (effective in late June 2018)

Shigeru Murayama
Chairman

Yoshinori Kanehana
President and Chief Executive Officer *

Kenji Tomida
Vice President and Senior Executive Officer *

Munenori Ishikawa
Vice President and Senior Executive Officer *

Kazuo Ota
Director, Managing Executive Officer

Tatsuya Watanabe
Director, Managing Executive Officer

Katsuya Yamamoto
Director, Managing Executive Officer

Sukeyuki Namiki
Director, Managing Executive Officer

Yasuhiko Hashimoto
Director, Managing Executive Officer

Michio Yoneda
Outside Director

Yoshiaki Tamura
Outside Director

Jenifer Rogers
Outside Director

  *Representative director

The Kawasaki Board of Directors also decided today that Akio Nekoshima will be nominated as Corporate Auditor at the Shareholders’ Meeting. Current Corporate Auditor Takafumi Shibahara will resign after that meeting.