Announcement of Changes in Executive Personnel. Kuraray Co., Ltd. announces the following changes in executive personnel.

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1 March 7, 2012 Kuraray Co., Ltd. Announcement of Changes in Executive Personnel Kuraray Co., Ltd. announces the following changes in executive personnel. 1. Changes in Director Positions (Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in June 2012) position Name Current position Remarks Yasuhiro Yamamoto Director and Senior Executive Director and Primary Executive Director and Primary Executive Director and Senior Executive Director and Senior Executive Setsuo Yamashita Director and Senior Executive Assumption of office as Director (Change of position) Assumption of office as Director (Change of position) Yuichi Kawarasaki Senior Executive Kunio Yukiyoshi Executive (Change of position) Director and Chairman Yasuaki Wakui Director and Chairman Standing Corporate Auditor for Kuraray) President of Kuraray Trading Co., Ltd.) Shiro Kataoka Director and Primary Executive Director and Primary Executive from position of Director 2. Corporate Auditor (Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in June 2012) position Name Current position Remarks Standing Corporate Auditor Director and Primary Executive External Corporate Auditor Yoshimitsu Okamoto - Junsuke Tanaka Standing Corporate Auditor Hiroo Onodera External Corporate Auditor 1

2 3. Executive s (Excluding Those Concurrently Posted as Directors) (Scheduled effective date: General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in June 2012) position Name Current position Remarks Senior Executive Nobuo Fujii Executive Change of position Senior Executive Sadaaki Matsuyama Executive Change of position Executive Yukiatsu Komiya Associate Executive Executive Shinichi Yasue Associate Executive Executive Hiroaya Hayase Associate Executive Executive Hisaichi Watanabe Associate Executive Executive Kazuhiko Kugawa Associate Executive Executive Kazuhiro Nakayama Associate Executive Executive Kenichi Abe Associate Executive Executive Masaaki Ito Associate Executive Executive Yoshimasa Sano Associate Executive Executive George Avdey - Noboru Yanagida Executive Shinzo Takemura Executive President of Kuraray Techno Co., Ltd.) Takaaki Fukumori Executive 2

3 4. Directors, Corporate Auditors and Executive s after Transfer Indicates a new Indicates a change in position No mark indicates either a continuation in office or a re to that office. Director and Chairman Yasuaki Wakui Director and Fumio Ito President Director and Yasuhiro Yamamoto Primary Executive Director and Setsuo Yamashita Primary Executive Director and Senior Executive Keiji Murakami Director and Senior Executive Kazuhiro Tenkumo Director and Senior Executive Yuichi Kawarasaki Director and Senior Executive Kunio Yukiyoshi External Director Kensaku Aomoto External Director Takafusa Shioya Standing Corporate Auditor Standing Corporate Auditor External Corporate Auditor External Corporate Auditor External Corporate Auditor Mitsuaki Manabe Hiroki Yamada Mie Fujimoto Yoshimitsu Okamoto Senior Executive Nobuo Fujii Senior Executive Sadaaki Matsuyama Executive Kohei Maeda Executive Noritsugu Nagatomo Executive Matthias Gutweiler Executive Osamu Yamada Executive Shuichi Takemoto Executive Tomoyuki Aya Executive Masanori Onodera Executive Yukiatsu Komiya Executive Shinichi Yasue Executive Hiroaya Hayase Executive Hisaichi Watanabe Executive Kazuhiko Kugawa Executive Kazuhiro Nakayama Executive Kenichi Abe Executive Masaaki Ito Executive Yoshimasa Sano Executive George Avdey 3

4 5. Career Summary of Directors and Corporate Auditors (1) Directors Yuichi Kawarasaki Date of birth: April 3, 1949 Educational background: Graduated from the School of Law, Osaka University, in March 1973 April 1973 Joined Kuraray Co., Ltd. June 2000 Manager, Administrative Department, Corporate Management Planning Office April 2006 General Manager, Corporate Management Division June 2006 Executive April 2009 responsible for Corporate Control Department and Corporate Communications Department April 2010 General Manager, Corporate Management Planning Office (current position) and responsible for Environmental Business Development and Promotion Division June 2010 Senior Executive (current position) Kunio Yukiyoshi Date of birth: May 2, 1951 Educational background: Graduated from the School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, in March 1975 April 1975 Joined Kuraray Co., Ltd. June 2000 Manager, Chemical Process Technology Development Department, Technology Development Center April 2008 Manager, Poval Film Division, Specialty Resin and Film Company April 2010 General Manager, Kurashiki Plant (current position) June 2010 Executive (current position) (2) Corporate Auditors Date of birth: July 20, 1946 Educational background: Graduated from the School of Science, the University of Tokyo in March 1971 April 1971 Joined Kuraray Co., Ltd. June 1997 Manager, Development Department, Medicines and Fine Chemicals Business Promotion Team April 2001 Manager, Fine Chemicals Business Department 4

5 June 2003 June 2004 June 2006 April 2008 June 2008 April 2009 February 2010 April 2010 April 2011 Executive Senior Executive Managing Director and Senior Executive Chief Technology (current position) Director and Primary Executive (current position), Chief of the Environment and Industrial Safety Management Center Chief of Business Development Division, Technology Division and Environmental Business Development and Promotion Division Chief of Luminas Business Promotion Department Chief of Technology and Development Unit responsible for Technology and Development Unit (current position) Yoshimitsu Okamoto * External Corporate Auditor Date of birth: October 21, 1948 Educational background: July 1971 April 1980 January 1982 June 1990 January 1994 October 1996 April 2001 August 2005 January 2010 Graduated from the School of Law, the University of Tokyo in June 1971 Joined The Sumitomo Bank, Limited Deputy General Manager, International Treasury Office, International Planning Department, The Sumitomo Bank, Limited Deputy General Manager of Düsseldorf Branch, The Sumitomo Bank, Limited, West Germany Managing Director, Sumitomo Finance International, Plc, London General Manager, Business Development Department, Sumitomo Bank Leasing Co,Ltd General Manager, Accounting Department, Sumitomo Bank Leasing Co,Ltd Director and General Manager, Finance and Accounting Department, Sumitomo Bank Auto Leasing Co,Ltd Part-Time Corporate Auditor, Mazda Auto Leasing Co, Ltd Standing Corporate Auditor, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Co, Ltd Auditor, Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency 5