News Release 2018

Kao Named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Fifth Consecutive Year

The Kao Group Starts Support for the Project of Cancer Education by Pink Ribbon Advisors

Selected Among the Global Top 25 in the Thomson Reuters Diversity & Inclusion Index

FOR A BEAUTIFUL SKIN WITH A RADIANCE ALL ITS OWN America's top-selling*1 body lotion brand debuts in Japan RELEASE OF JERGENS

SOFINA iP Base Essence Launched in China

Notice Regarding Retirement of Treasury Shares

Kao Announces the Forest Stewardship Council Certified Procurement Declaration in Collaboration with Six Japanese Companies

Kao Corporation Shanghai has started Photovoltaic power generation

Kao Acquires Washing Systems, LLC, From Gryphon Investors in the United States and Strengthens Professional-use Products Business

Kao Industrial (Thailand) has started Photovoltaic power generation

Consolidated Financial Results for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018 [IFRS] (Jan. 1, 2018 - Jun. 30, 2018)

Kao included in stock indices for ESG investing: FTSE4Good Index Series, FTSE Blossom Japan Index, MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index and MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN)

Kao Launches Unsecured Straight Bonds

Notice Regarding the Status of Repurchase of the Company's Stock and its Completion (Stock Repurchase in accordance with Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165, paragraph 2 of the Corporation Law)

Notice Regarding the Status of Repurchase of the Company's Stock (Stock Repurchase in accordance with Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165, paragraph 2 of the Corporation Law)

Kao to Issue Unsecured Straight Bonds

Kao Group Cosmetics Business Building a New Global Portfolio

Kao Releases Kao Integrated Report 2018

Notice Regarding Resolution to Repurchase of the Company's Stock (Stock Repurchase in accordance with Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165, paragraph 2 of the Corporation Law)

Consolidated Financial Results for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2018 [IFRS] (Jan. 1, 2018 - Mar. 31, 2018)

Kao Penang Group* of Malaysia has started Photovoltaic power generation

Ehime Plant (Kao Sanitary Products Ehime) has started Photovoltaic power generation

SOFINA to Launch in Singapore

Entries Now Open for the Ninth Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children

Kao's RecyCreation Initiatives Are Underway: Kao's Contribution in Revitalizing Onagawacho (Miyagi Prefecture) Using Used Refill Packs

Kao Receives Third 'Nadeshiko Brand' Designation as an Enterprise that Encourages Women's Success in Workplace

Kao Promotes "Nationwide Cleanliness and Water-saving Initiatives" in Collaboration with China's Ministry of Environmental Protection for the Seventh Year

Kao launches "@Pure Pigments" in Europe, a new hair coloring product containing "HD3 Dye Technology" developed through joint research with Fujifilm

Kao Selected as a Health and Productivity Management Brand for the Fourth Consecutive Year

Kao Selected Grand Prize Company for the Corporate Governance of the Year Prize

Basic Idea and Policy Concerning Reduction of an Investment Unit

Twelfth Year Kao Named World's Most Ethical Companies

Kao recognized as Supplier Engagement leader by CDP

Notice Regarding Changes of Members of the Board of Directors and Audit & Supervisory Board Members

Notice of Dividend of Surplus

Consolidated Financial Results for the Year Ended December 31, 2017 [IFRS] (Jan. 1, 2017 - Dec. 31, 2017)