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Kobe Steel Announces Selection of Independent Committee Members for Policy on Acts of Substantial Purchases of Company Shares (Takeover Defense Measure)

May 19, 2006

Kobe Steel, Ltd. announces that at its Board of Directors' meeting held today, the Company decided on the selection of members for the Independent Committee.

At the Board of Directors' meeting held on April 27, 2006, Kobe Steel decided to adopt a policy on acts of substantial purchases of Company shares (takeover defense measure). A portion of the defense measure consists of the formation of an Independent Committee. The members of the Committee are as follows:


Takaharu Dohi

April 1958	Appointed as prosecutor
July 1993	Superintending Prosecutor, Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office
July 1995	Superintending Prosecutor, Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office
January 1996	Prosecutor-General, Supreme Public Prosecutors Office
June 1998	Retirement
July 1998	Attorney registration (to present)

Junji Tsumura

April 1958	Entered Toyobo Co., Ltd.
June 1990	Director
June 1995	Managing Director
June 1997	Senior Managing Director
June 1999	President
June 2005	Chairman (current position)

Tadao Kagono

March 1970	Graduated from Faculty of Business Administration, Kobe University
April 1979	Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Kobe University
November 1988	Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Kobe University
April 1998	Dean, Faculty of Business Administration, Kobe University
April 1999	Dean, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University Professor (current position)