Kubota Corporation, for the year ended March 31, 2009, donated
JPY200 million as asbestos-related contributions, according to
the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on June 24, 2009.
Until 1995, the Company’s plant in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture,…
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