Response to the Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake| 2011/03/12 in Japan
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

For Immediate Release
Kanamoto Company, Limited
Stock Code 9678
Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section; Sapporo Stock Exchange
Kanchu Kanamoto
President and CEO< Contact for inquiries concerning this material >Yuichi Takayama
Manager, Investor and Public Relations, Office of the President
Telephone: + 81–11–209–1631
Mobile:080-5589-7857
Mail: Takayama@kanamoto.co.jp
U1.takayama@gmail.com

Response to the Tohoku Pacific Offshore
Earthquake
Kanamoto Company, Limited (Kanchu Kanamoto, President; Head Office: Sapporo, Japan), Japan’s leading
construction equipment rental company, established a Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake Task Force at its
Business Coordination Headquarters (Shiba Daimon, Minato-ku, Tokyo) on March 11, 2011 to respond to theTohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake, which occurred on the same day. The Task Force has created teams tosupply construction equipment needed to respond to the disaster, including construction machinery,generators, lighting equipment, modular housing units for temporary use and toilet facilities. Details areprovided below.

1. Tohoku Pacific Offshore Earthquake Task Force

Established March 11, 2011

Established within Kanamoto’s Business Coordination Headquarters (1-1-7 Shiba Daimon, Minato-ku, Tokyo,
Hamamatsu-cho K Building).
Task Force personnel
Task Force Leader

Manabu Nagasaki

Director, Construction Equipment Rental Division
Regional Manager, Tohoku Region serving concurrently
as Regional Manager, Kanto Region

Deputy Task Force Leader
Deputy Task Force Leader
Deputy Task Force Leader
Advisor (Overall command)

Takashi Ikeda

Deputy Regional Manager, Construction Equipment(Tohoku Region)

Rental Division Tohoku Region

Akira Sannomiya

Deputy Regional Manager, Construction Equipment(Kanto Region)

Rental Division Kanto Region

Jun Watanabe

General Manager, Construction Equipment Rental(Regional)

Division Regional Special Procurement Sales Division

Tetsuo Kanamoto

Director, Manager, Business Coordination Headquarters

2. Response
At the present time Kanamoto is supplying construction equipment and other material support based on

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disaster response agreements it has with local governments (municipalities and organizations) and firms, andis working to supply equipment and other items in response to requests from government offices, electric
power companies and telecommunications firms, public entities such as hospitals, and customers andsuppliers. The region struck by the disaster is one of Kanamoto’s main market areas, where Kanamoto has
developed a significant number of branches that are already provisioned with equipment such as hydraulicexcavators and generators.
Furthermore, as the Company reorients available assets toward the recovery effort and prepares anorganization (response team) to provide assistance wherever necessary, based on its experience after theHanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake in 1995, the entire Kanamoto Group is united in its desire to execute theemergency response needed and the activities to contribute sufficiently to future restoration works.
3. Inquiries
For the immediate future, Kanamoto will respond through the newly established Task Force if it initiates
additional disaster response measures. Because of the need to fully dedicate telecommunication lines to its
response in the stricken areas, however, the Company requests that all inquiries be routed through the Public
Relations group within the Office of the President.
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