KUBOTA’s Response to the Issue of Asbestos
KUBOTA has sincerely accepted the serious fact that a number of our employees and local
residents have contracted asbestos-related diseases and we are working with good intentions
towards direct resolution of this problem from the standpoint of clarifying our social responsibility as
a corporate entity that for years manufactured products containing asbestos.
“Rules for Relief Payments to Persons with Asbestos-related
Diseases and Their Families around the Old Kanzaki Plant”
On April 17, 2006, KUBOTA established a system for paying monetary relief so as to reduce
even slightly the hardships in living and the mental anguish, both of those persons receiving
treatment for asbestos-related diseases and their families around the old Kanzaki plant.
Payment was made to 125 individuals based on these rules during the fiscal year.
Medical support for asbestos-related disease
Social Report
By adding medical support to the already provided information disclosure to the government,
the system solatia and condolence payments, and the system of monetary relief, KUBOTA is
promoting basic and clinical research on asbestos-related disease.
Outline of support recipients, treatment and research
(1) Hyogo College of Medicine
Research project
Summary of the Fiscal 2007 Social Report / KUBOTA’s Response to the Issue of Asbestos
“Comprehensive Clinical Research Project on the Treatment of Mesothelioma Aimed at
Prognosis Improvement”
Outline of support: Donation to the research project that the College will implement for the
purpose of establishing a treatment method and developing preventive
measures for extremely intractable mesothelioma
Period: for 10 years from fiscal 2007
Amount of donation: 1.2 billion yen in total
(2) Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases
Research project
“Research and Development of Innovative Treatments for Malignant Mesothelioma and
Intractable Sarcoma Caused by Asbestos”
Outline of support: Donation to the research and development project that, in cooperation
with Osaka University etc., the Center is advancing on tumor-dissolving
herpes virus manipulated so that it will only attack malignant
mesothelioma cells
Period: for 5 years from fiscal 2007
Amount of donation: 500 million yen in total
The status of KUBOTA employees (including retirees) with
asbestos-related disease
The total up to March 31, 2007 was 152 (124 deaths and 28 currently under medical care).
Information relating to KUBOTA’s responses to-date to the issue of asbestos can be found on the following website (in Japanese only):
http://www.kubota.co.jp/kanren/index.html