Notice

Mar. 22, 2007

Executive Personnel Actions (Scheduled for Late June 2007)

Kuraray Co., Ltd. announces the following executive changes.

1. Changes in Directors and Corporate Auditors
(effective from the date of the annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled for late June 2007)

(1) Change in Director Position

Position	Name	New Position
Director and Senior Executive Officer	Shiro Kataoka	Managing Director, Senior Executive Officer

(2) Candidate for New Director

Position	Name	New Position
Executive Officer	Toshihide Sakai	Director and Senior Executive Officer

(3) Retiring Director (Planned)

Position	Name
Director	Noriaki Yoshimura

(4) New Corporate Auditor Candidate

Position	Name	New Position
President, Kuraray Business Services Co., Ltd. President, Kuraray Travel Services Co., Ltd.	Tadahiko Kujime	Corporate Auditor (Statutory)

(5) Retiring Corporate Auditor (Planned)

Position	Name
Corporate Auditor (Statutory)	Akira Matsuzawa

2. Changes in Executive Officers
(effective from the date of the annual general meeting of shareholders scheduled for late June 2007)

(1) Changes in Executive Officer Positions

No changes, except for the candidate for new director

(2) New Executive Officers

Position	Name	New Position
Associate Director	Takayoshi Osaki	Senior Executive Officer
President, SEPTON Company of America	Noboru Yanagida	Executive Officer
Associate Director	Shinzo Takemura	Executive Officer
Associate Director	Noritsugu Nagatomo	Executive Officer
Associate Director	Takaaki Fukumori	Executive Officer
Associate Director	Kazuhiro Tenkumo	Executive Officer
Associate Director	Yasuhiro Yamamoto	Executive Officer

(3) Retiring Executive Officers

Position	Name
Representative Senior Managing Director, Senior Executive Officer	Junsuke Tanaka (planned reappointment as Representative Senior Managing Director)
Executive Officer	Susumu Gotanda

3. Complete list of Directors, Corporate Auditors and Executive Officers

As of late June 2007.

indicates a new appointment
indicates a change in position

	Representative Director and President	Yasuaki Wakui
	Representative Senior Managing Director	Junsuke Tanaka
	Managing Director	Seiji Wajiki
	Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer	Osamu Asaba
	Managing Director	Nobuo Iwawaki
	Managing Director and Senior Executive Officer	Yoichi Ninagawa
	Managing Director	Fumio Ito
	Managing Director, Senior Executive Officer	Shiro Kataoka
	Managing Director, Senior Executive Officer	Hiroaki Yoshino
	Director and Senior Executive Officer	Toshihide Sakai

	Corporate Auditor (Statutory)	Tsutomu Yabuta
	Corporate Auditor (Statutory)	Tadahiko Kujime
	Corporate Auditor (Non-statutory)	Toshimitsu Kitagawa
	Corporate Auditor (Non-statutory)	Hiroo Onodera
	Corporate Auditor (Non-statutory)	Hirotaka Ikuno

	Senior Executive Officer	Kenzo Sawada
	Senior Executive Officer	Hideo Tomita
	Senior Executive Officer	Takayoshi Ohsaki
	Executive Officer	Katsuya Hashimoto
	Executive Officer	Mitsuo Matsumoto
	Executive Officer	Kohei Maeda
	Executive Officer	Tokio Aikura
	Executive Officer	Mitsuaki Manabe
	Executive Officer	Yuichi Kawarasaki
	Executive Officer	Keiji Murakami
	Executive Officer	Gerd Lepper
	Executive Officer	Jean-Marie Baetens
	Executive Officer	Nobuya Tomita
	Executive Officer	Noboru Yanagida
	Executive Officer	Shinzo Takemura
	Executive Officer	Noritsugu Nagatomo
	Executive Officer	Takaaki Fukumori
	Executive Officer	Kazuhiro Tenkumo
	Executive Officer	Yasuhiro Yamamoto

4. Profile of New Director Candidate

Name

Toshihide Sakai

Date of birth

December 17, 1947

Education

Graduated from Tohoku University (School of Engineering), March 1970

Career Summary

April 1970	Joined Kuraray Co., Ltd.
July 1994	Manager, Molding Materials Division, Okayama Plant
April 2001	General Manager, Poval Division
June 2003	Executive Officer (Current position)
April 2004	General Manager, Okayama Plant (Current position)

5. Profile of New Corporate Auditor Candidate