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To All Our Stakeholders

From left: Kunio Noji, Chairman of the Board and Tetsuji Ohashi, President and CEO

For Fiscal 2016 (April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017), while we outperformed our projection of April

27, 2016, concerning both sales and profits, consolidated net sales declined 2.8% from the

previous fiscal year, to JPY1,802.9 billion, and operating income by 16.5% to JPY174.0 billion.

For Fiscal 2017, we can expect recovery of demand for construction and mining equipment,

although there should be unstable factors. Against this backdrop in April this year, we closed the

acquisition of Joy Global Inc., a leading manufacturer of mining equipment in the United States,

and changed its trade name to Komatsu Mining Corp.

The cornerstone of our management principles is to maximize our corporate value through

commitment to Quality and Reliability. We will also ensure that all employees share The KOMATSU

Way. Further, we will continue to address environmental performance, corporate social

responsibility and corporate governance, as we work to improve our business performance and

move forward in developing corporate strengths, while achieving social responsibility, in a well-

balanced manner.

On behalf of the Board, we would like to extend our sincere appreciation to our shareholders and

other stakeholders for your continuing support.

July 2017

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Kunio Noji, Chairman of the Board

Tetsuji Ohashi, President and CEO

Interview with the President

Tetsuji Ohashi, President

Please review FY2016 business results.

We have upheld the “Together We Innovate GEMBA Worldwide: Growth Toward Our 100th

Anniversary (2021) and Beyond” three-year mid-range management plan to be completed in the

fiscal year ending March 31, 2019. For FY2016, the first year of this plan, consolidated net sales

totaled JPY 1,802.9 billion, down 2.8% from the previous fiscal year. Operating income decreased

by 16.5 % from the previous fiscal year, to JPY 174.0 billion. Return on sales was 9.7 %. Net

income attributable to Komatsu Ltd. amounted to JPY 113.3 billion.

Consolidated Business Results

Net Sales

Operating Income and Ratio

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Net Income Attributable to Komatsu
Ltd. and ROE

Foreign Exchange Rates

FY2015

FY2016

FY2017 
(Projected)

USD1 JPY120.8

JPY108.6

JPY105.0

EUR1 JPY132.4

JPY119.3

JPY115.0

RMB1

JPY19.0

JPY16.2

JPY15.0

Cash Dividend

Annual Cash Dividends per Share*

* Based on the resolutions of the annual shareholders'

meeting

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Together We Innovate
GEMBA Worldwide -Growth
Toward Our 100th
Anniversary(2021) and
Beyond-

Komatsu Group employees worldwide will

team up with distributors, suppliers and

other partners, innovate customers'

Gemba together with them, and provide

innovation designed to create new values,

thereby working for sustainable growth of

our core businesses of construction and

mining equipment, as well as industrial

machinery, toward our 100th anniversary

and beyond.

Please review the market conditions and business results of the

construction, mining and utility equipment business.

Total sales increased on a local currency basis thanks to increased demand in China, CIS and

Indonesia in the second half period of FY2016. As impacted by the Japanese yen's appreciation,

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however, FY2016 sales declined by 1.6% from the previous fiscal year, to JPY1,576.5 billion.

Segment profit decreased by 4.3% to JPY161.6 billion.

Business Results by Region

Against the backdrop of challenging

market conditions, sales declined in Japan

as well as North America and Europe,

where the Japanese yen's appreciation

adversely affected sales. Meanwhile, sales

expanded in China and Asia.

Please review the business results of the retail finance segment.

Revenues declined by 9.0% from the previous fiscal year, to JPY 49.0 billion, as adversely affected

by the Japanese yen's appreciation, even though an increase in assets in North America and some

other regions. Segment profit dropped by 66.6% from the previous fiscal year, to JPY 4.4 billion,

mainly affected by allowance for doubtful account recorded mainly in China.

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Please review the business results of the industrial machinery and

others segment.

Sales declined by 13.2% from the previous fiscal year, to JPY 191.0 billion. This decline came about

mainly from reduced sales of presses and machine tools to the automobile manufacturing industry

and the exclusion of the former Komatsu House Ltd. from consolidated accounting. Segment profit

dropped by 35.7% from the corresponding period a year ago, to JPY 12.4 billion.

What is your projection for FY2017 business results?

In the construction, mining and utility equipment business, we expect an increase in sales for

FY2017 from FY2016, as we anticipate a recovery of demand for mining equipment, which has been

slack for the last few years, and the effects of adding Joy Global Inc. (currently, Komatsu Mining

Corp.), a leading U.S. manufacturer of mining equipment which we closed the acquisition in April

this year, to our consolidated accounting. With respect to profits, we project a decline, mainly

affected by a significant amount of temporary expenses (such as fair values of inventory assets in

cost of sales and amortization of intangible assets) to record for the first year of acquisition.

In the retail finance business, we anticipate a decrease in revenues, affected by the Japanese

yen’s appreciation. Meanwhile, we expect an increase in segment profit, as no more allowance will

be needed for doubtful accounts in China.

In the industrial machinery and others business, we expect an increase in both sales and

segment profit, as we anticipate an increase in the volume of sales of presses and machine tools.

As preconditions for our projection, we are assuming the foreign exchange rates as follows:

USD1=JPY 105, EUR1=JPY 115 and RMB1=JPY 15.0.

Projection of FY2017 Business Results

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KMC: Komatsu Mining Corp.

Please update the progress Komatsu has made in three major growth

strategies.

Although we see signs of recovery in some markets, they haven't upturned for full-momentum

growth, remaining uncertain into the future. Under such a market environment, we have been

focusing our efforts on 1) Growth strategies based on innovation, 2) Growth strategies of existing

businesses, and 3) Structural reforms designed to reinforce the business foundation.

Please explain the growth based on innovation.

With respect to SMARTCONSTRUCTION, we have not only worked to broaden the range of

intelligent Machine Control models, the core of solutions, but also began their sales in April 2016,

whereas they were conventionally limited to rental. As of June 2017, our intelligent Machine Control

models were deployed at over 2,800 construction and civil engineering jobsites on a cumulative

basis. With an eye to aggressive sales overseas, we demonstrated SMARTCONSTRUCTION at the

ConExpo2017, a major international fair of construction equipment held in Las Vegas, U.S.A. in

March 2017.

In the mining equipment business, we exhibited the Innovative Autonomous Haulage Vehicle with

no cab at the MINExpo INTERNATIONAL® 2016, a leading international fair of mining equipment

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also held in Las Vegas, U.S.A. We are striving to improve the safety and productivity of mining by

aggressively promoting optimal operation, remote control and unmanned operation of mining

equipment, thereby committed to becoming an indispensable partner of our customers.

SMARTCONSTRUCTION

This is our solutions business model

launched to create safe, high-productivity

and smart jobsites of the future by

connecting all related objects on the

jobsite through ICT.

Innovative Autonomous
Haulage Vehicle

We have enjoyed good customer

evaluation of our Autonomous Haulage

System (AHS) with unmanned dump

trucks since its commercialization in

2008. Today we are tapping into new

potentials of innovation by breaking the

convention of placing the operator cab on

the front of the vehicle.

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How about the growth of existing businesses?

In April 2017, we closed the acquisition of Joy Global Inc., a leading manufacturer of mining

equipment in the United States, and changed its trade name to Komatsu Mining Corp. Now we are

better positioned to not only expand our product line-up with super-large mining equipment, drills

and underground mining equipment, but also provide a wide range of solutions to customers.

With regard to the integration process of Komatsu Mining Corp., we are developing specific plans

in six months of the acquisition by anticipating about three years ahead. We believe it's a

substantial project in which we can dynamically expand our mining equipment business, a long-

range core business of Komatsu, and provide new value to customers.

In line with the current mid-range management plan, we have worked to establish the market

position of DANTOTSU No. 1 in Asia, our stronghold market in emerging ones and a future-

promising market for construction equipment. Specifically, we have focused efforts to strengthen

our operation by preparing for local product and human resource developments in Asia. In the

aftermarket business, we have stepped up efforts to expand sales of parts for periodic replacement

and attachments. We have also worked to broaden the product mix of attachments, including those

of Lehnhoff Hartstahl GmbH, a German manufacturer of attachments, which we acquired in the

previous fiscal year. As a result, we achieved the record-high quarterly sales of parts in FY2016.

While focusing efforts to develop DANTOTSU products for conventional markets, we will also

continue to strengthen our competitiveness in the aggregate and cement sectors, expand

application-specific models, and boost the forest machinery business.

In the industrial machinery and others business, Komatsu Industries Corp. opened the Techno

Innovation Center in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The Center not only exhibits

Komatsu Industries' flagship PVS1353 press brake and H1F200-2 Servo press among others, but

also offers visitors to experience its latest IoT-based Sheet-Metal Network.

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Expanding business with
Komatsu Mining Corp.
(formerly, Joy Global Inc.)

On April 19. 2017, Komatsu Mining Corp.

(KMC) was created after acquisition of the

U.S. company. KMC is expected to not

only further expand Komatsu Group's

product line-ups but also trigger

innovation that will create new value in

customers' mining.

Asia Development Center and
Asia Training &
Demonstration Center
opened

We have opened these development and

training facilities to further focus our

efforts on attaining the DANTOTSU No. 1

position in Asia.

Please explain the reinforcement of the business foundation.

We have doubled sales from the early 2000s, while keeping fixed costs about constant. We will

continue to uphold the policy of separating costs from growth into the future, while promoting

investment in future growth and working to aggressively cut down production costs and maintain

an appropriate level of fixed costs.

With respect to shop floor of manufacturing sites, we are promoting efforts to reform our

production by networking not only our manufacturing plants but also suppliers through the KOM-

MICS which allows for real-time "visualization" of machine performance. We are also working to

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accelerate the delivery speed of products and parts and achieve appropriate inventories by

connecting market information directly to our plants.

The corporate source of value creation is employees. As we believe that diversity powers the

growth of our company and individual employees, we are committed to providing workplaces and

systems which enable each and every employee of the Komatsu Group to have motivation and

pride and demonstrate his/her talents to the fullest extent. We will also continue our efforts for

human resource development.

KOM-MICS

KOM-MICS collects data from a diverse

range of manufacturing equipment and

promotes "visualization" of jobsite

operations.

How do you think of the ESG?

The Komatsu Group has been aggressively engaged in all three areas of environment, social and

corporate governance concerns.

With respect to environmental concerns, we have been concerting our efforts to develop

products, service and solutions, which feature fuel economy based on our estimate that about 90%

of total CO  emissions in the life cycle of construction equipment comes from machines in use by

2

customers.

Use of our intelligent Machine Control hydraulic excavators in SMARTCONSTRUCTION has proven

a 20 to 30% reduction of CO  emissions thanks to reduced time of machine operation and

2

construction periods resulting from automatic control of buckets.

In the area of social concerns, the Komatsu Group upholds the principle of CSR efforts in core

businesses, and makes CSR efforts in which we can capitalize on our strengths, thereby fulfilling

social responsibilities. In some regions and countries of the world, acquisition of operating,

maintenance and manufacturing skills of construction equipment will result in the development of

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local economies and support for employment. We will continue to support human resource

development in tune with local conditions.

With respect to corporate governance, based on The KOMATSU Way, the principle of our

corporate actions, we ensure the vitalization of the board of directors, communication with all

stakeholders, and compliance with the Rules of Business Community, among others. Concerning

the board of directors, we have appointed three outside directors in a total of eight directors. Our

board of auditors consists of three outside auditors and two inside auditors. In this manner, we

work to ensure the transparency and objectivity of management. As part of risk management

efforts, we started compliance risk audits in FY2008.

Compliance Risk Audit

To check and assess the conditions of

group-wide compliance and identify

potential risks thereof, we conduct

internal audits at Komatsu Group

companies around the world, including

distributors, their branches and suppliers

in Japan.

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Any message to the stakeholders?

On behalf of Komatsu Group employees, I would like to extend our sincere appreciation to all our

stakeholders for their understanding and support, and ask for their continuing support.

Corporate Information

Outline

Name

Komatsu Ltd.

(As of March 31, 2017)

Head Office

2-3-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8414, Japan

Date of Establishment

May 13, 1921

Common Stock Outstanding

Consolidated: ¥67,870 million based on U.S. GAAP 

Non-consolidated: ¥70,120 million

Number of Employees

ted subsidiaries) 

Non-consolidated: 10,371

Consolidated: 47,204 (Komatsu Ltd. and 141 consolida

Shareholder Information

Shares of Common Stock Issued and

943,538,362 shares (excluding 28,429,298 shares o

Outstanding

f treasury stock)

Number of Shareholders

158,453

Number of Shares per Trading Unit

100

Securities Code

6301 (Japan)

Stock Listings

Tokyo

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Transfer Agent for Common Stock/Ma

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation 

nagement Institution for Special Acco

4-5, Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-

unt

8212, Japan

Depositaries (ADRs)

888-269-2377 (888-BNY-ADRS) for calls within U.S.

The Bank of New York Mellon 

101 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10286, U.S.A. 

Tel: +1-(201)-680-6825 for international calls and

A. 

URL: http://www.adrbnymellon.com 

Ticker Symbol: KMTUY

Major Shareholders (As of March 31, 2017)

N a m e

N u m b e r   o f   s
h a r e s   h e l d  
( T h o u s a n d s
o f   -   s h a r e s )

S h a r e h o l d i n
g   r a t i o   ( % )

JP Morgan Chase Bank 380055  

(Standing proxy: Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Settlement & C

59,920

6.16

learing Services Division)

Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust Account)

48,700

The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Accoun

t)

Taiyo Life Insurance Company

41,336

34,000

5.01

4.25

3.49

State Street Bank and Trust Company  

(Standing proxy: The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank

30,928

3.18

ing Corporation Limited, Tokyo branch)

Nippon Life Insurance Company  

(Standing proxy: The Master Trust Bank of Japan, L

26,626

2.73

td.)

State Street Bank and Trust Company 505223  

20,265

2.08

(Standing proxy: Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Settlement & C

learing Services Division)

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The Bank of New York Mellon as Depositary Bank fo

r Depositary Receipt Holders  

(Standing proxy: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corpora

tion)

19,593

2.01

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

17,835

Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust Account 5)

17,740

1.83

1.82

N o t e s : 1) Shareholding ratio is calculated by subtracting treasury stock.

2) Although the Company holds 28,742 thousand shares of treasury stock, it is excluded from the maj

or shareholders listed above.

Breakdown of Shareholders

Stock Prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

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