Asahi Kasei Corp. that Primary Executive Officer Hideki Kobori will become its president on April 1, 2016, to replace Toshio Asano, who will quit to take responsibility for a piling work data manipulation scandal involving a subsidiary. Asano will remain as board director without the right to represent the company, while assuming the post of adviser.

He will leave the board at a general meeting of the firm's shareholders in late June.