Tokyo, August 7, 2014 --- Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) (TSE: 2914) has announced the result of pre-purchase testing of this year's flue-cured Virginia tobacco grown in Japan. The Company has been conducting a number of tests at each stage of its production process for radioactive materials in Japanese domestic leaf tobacco, using a standard value, in order to allay consumer concern since the accident at the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Prior to this year's Japanese domestic leaf tobacco harvest, since late July the Company has again been conducting radioactive material testing on leaf tobacco before purchase, with the support of tobacco growers. Testing of this year's flue-cured Virginia tobacco has now been completed, showing none of the leaf tobacco tested exceeded the JT standard value (Radioactive cesium: 100Bq/kg).

Further, JT will continue with its scheme of testing domestic leaf tobacco after purchase, and testing and monitoring a number of times at each stage of its production process (see the figure in the appendix showing the Company's testing scheme).

We will continue to take all possible measures to ensure quality control for consumers' continuing patronage of our products.

An outline of the pre-purchase tests and results is presented as follows.

Outline of pre-purchase testing
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Results of the pre-purchase testing

The details of the test results are stated in the appendix.

Testing of the remaining native tobacco and Burley tobacco is scheduled to be initiated from September. The results of the upcoming tests will be announced on our corporate website, http://www.jt.com.

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