Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. has announced that, based on decisions made at a Board of Directors meeting earlier February 20, 2014, Makoto Sonoda, Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President will be appointed to Director effective April 1, 2014. The company also announced that the following management changes will become effective April 1, 2014: New managing executive officers to be appointed: Kazuo Hida, President, Precision Machinery Company (currently Vice President, Precision Machinery Company); Kenji Tomida, General Manager, Corporate Planning Division (currently Vice President, Precision Machinery Company). New executive officers to be appointed: Ikuhiro Narimatsu, General Manager, Personnel & Labor Administration Division (currently Deputy General Manager Personnel & Labor Administration Division); Takeshi Asano, General Manager, Marketing & Sales Division, Motorcycle & Engine Company (currently assigned to Kawasaki Motors Corporation Japan); Toshiyuki Mimura, General Manager, Planning & Control Division, Plant & Infrastructure Company (currently to Kawasaki Motors Corporation Japan); Akio Nekoshima, General Manager, Finance & Accounting Division, (currently to Kawasaki Motors Corporation Japan).

Executive Officers to be appointed new positions: Takafumi Shibahara, Assisting to corporate auditors (currently General Manager Personnel & Labor Administration Division); Masafumi Nakagawa, Assigned to Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (currently General Manager Marketing & Sales Division Motorcycle & Engine Company); Kaoru Kawabe, Vice President Ship & Offshore Structure Company (currently General Manager Kobe Shipyard Ship & Offshore Structure Company); Hiroji Iwasaki, General Manager, Planning & Control Division, Rolling Stock Company (currently in charge of planning & control, and marketing & sales Rolling Stock Company); Retiring executive officers as of March 31, 2014 was Takeshi Sugawara, Yoshizumi Hashimoto, Minoru Akioka and Yugo Nakagami.