Kubota Corporation’s recorded asbestos expenses totaled JPY1.155 billion for the year ended March 31, 2011, compared with JPY503 million for the year ended March 31, 2010, according to the Company’s annual report, on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and…
Kubota Corporation, since May 2007, has been subject to 10 asbestos-related lawsuits in Japan, which were filed against the Company or defendant party consisting of the Japanese Government and asbestos-related companies including the Company, according to the Company’s annual report,…
Kubota Corporation will continuously cope with issues faithfully from the view point of Corporate Social Responsibility as one of manufacturers that once manufactured asbestos-containing products.
The Company has established “Relief Payment System for the Asbestos-Related Patients and the Family Members of…
Amphibole asbestos fibers were found it at least four buildings in Tokyo, Hokkaido and Kagawa: three community centers in Hokkaido and Kagawa and the ceiling of a private building in Tokyo, The Mainichi Daily News reports.
The latter three all used…
Judge Yumiko Tokuoka order Kintetsu Corporation to pay JPY49 million in compensation to an unnamed man whose family claimed he died from inhaling asbestos in a building owned by the Company, The Yomiuri Shimbun reports.
The Company is an Osaka, Japan-based…
The Yokohama District Court, on July 6, 2009, ordered the Japanese Government to pay JPY77 million to the family of Hitoshi Taima for his exposure to asbestos while working at a U.S. naval base in Yokusoka, Kanagawa Prefecture, The Japan…
A survey showed by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare on June 29, 2009 says that 1,063 people were eligible for workers’ compensation as sufferers of asbestos-linked diseases like mesothelioma in fiscal 2008 as they were affected by asbestos…
It was found on June 17, 2009 that 37 percent of asbestos disease sufferers, who responded to a Japanese Environment Ministry survey, say they did not know where they inhaled asbestos fibers, The Yomiuri Shimbun reports.
The Ministry surveyed 3,351 people…
Kubota Corporation, during the year ended March 31, 2009, expended JPY1.155 billion (US$11,786,000) for asbestos-related claims, according to the Company’s annual report, on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 24, 2009.
Of the JPY1.155 billion (US$11,786,000),…
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,…