Kubota : Notice of changes of management

November 30, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: IR Group

Global Management Promotion Dept.

2-47, Shikitsuhigashi 1-chome,

Naniwa-ku, Osaka 556-8601, Japan

Phone: [phone]

Notice of changes of management

Kubota Corporation ("the Company") has resolved at the Extraordinary Meeting of the Board of Directors held on November 30, 2018 to change Executive Officers to be effective from January 1, 2019 as follows.

1) Changes of Title of Executive Officers ＜Date of change: January 1, 2019 (to be scheduled)＞

Name	New title	Current title
Yuichi Kitao	Representative Director and	Director and
Executive Vice President	Senior Managing Executive Officer
Toshihiko Kurosawa	Senior Managing Executive Officer	Managing Executive Officer
Dai Watanabe	Senior Managing Executive Officer	Managing Executive Officer
Haruyuki Yoshida	Senior Managing Executive Officer	Managing Executive Officer
Kazuhiro Shinabe	Managing Executive Officer	Executive Officer
Ryuichi Minami	Managing Executive Officer	Executive Officer
Yoshimitsu Ishibashi	Managing Executive Officer	Executive Officer
Yasukazu Kamada	Managing Executive Officer	Executive Officer
Katsuhiko Yukawa	Managing Executive Officer	Executive Officer

2) Candidates for New Executive Officers ＜Date of change: January 1, 2019 (to be scheduled)＞

Name	Current responsibility
Koichi Yamamoto	General Manager of Tsukuba Plant
Manpei Yamamoto	General Manager of Hirakata Plant
Hitoshi Inada	General Manager of Keiyo Plant
Shingo Hanada	General Manager of Outdoor Power Equipment Business Unit
Nobushige Ichikawa	General Manger of Farm Machinery Engineering Europe Dept.

3) Retirement of Executive Officers (Expiration of the term of office)

＜Date of retirement: December 31, 2018 (to be scheduled)＞

Name Toshihiro Kubo Shigeru Kimura Kenshiro Ogawa Yoshiyuki FujitaAfter retirement (Date of assuming office: January 1, 2019)

Adviser

< Cautionary Statements with Respect to Forward-Looking Statements >

This document may contain forward-looking statements that are based on management's expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future results may differ materially from what is forecast in forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation: general economic conditions in the Company's markets, particularly government agricultural policies, levels of capital expenditures, both in public and private sectors, foreign currency exchange rates, the occurrence of natural disasters, continued competitive pricing pressures in the marketplace, as well as the Company's ability to continue to gain

acceptance of its products.

End of document