Through ESG activities, our Group intends to increase value for all trusted associates through ongoing diligent efforts in environmental (E), Social (S) and governance (G) on the basis of relationships of trust. With all employees of our Group together in unison, we aim to maximize corporate value while eyeing sustainable growth as a corporation through daily progress on these initiatives.
Continuing to create value for trusted associates through ESG activities provides some assistance to resolving global environment problems and issues faced by local communities, and through corporate activities that fulfill responsibilities regarding sustainable urban development, enabling business growth and leading to the enhancement of unified corporate value. Our Group aims for sustainable growth by improving both social value and economic value at the same time.
Our Group engages in ESG with the idea of achieving sustainable growth based on its corporate philosophy entailing “a centurial commitment to building trust and encouraging dreams“. We believe promoting ESG is the embodiment of this philosophy.
We have categorized each topic we think to be vital to the sustainable development of our Group: E stands for the environment, S stands for society and G stands for governance.
| 1. For our Customers | We prioritize our customers by constantly providing products and services from the customers' viewpoint. |
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| 2. Communities | We contribute to the development of regional society by seeking to collaborate and work together with local communities. We aim to be a company that takes on social issues and is needed by communities and society. |
| 3. Organizational Governance | As an organization, we make every effort to gather and record accurate information, disclose this information, and engage in transparent and fair management. |
| 4. Human Rights | For employment and remuneration, we respect basic human rights and do not discriminate in terms of nationality, gender, faith, beliefs, or physical appearance, or in any other terms unrelated to the abilities and motivation of each individual. Personnel evaluations are conducted based on overall assessment of each employee's abilities, motivation, personality, awareness of compliance, and contribution to performance. |
| 5. Labor Practices | We nurture our employees to hamess the collective energy of our personnel. To sustain corporate activities, we focus our efforts on maintaining and improving a proper work environment in accordance with laws and regulations, so that our employees can work in safe and healthy environments. |
| 6. Environment | We aim to coexist with regional societies by proactively tackling environmental problems. |
| 7. Fair Business Practices | We build relationships with our business partners on an equal basis that are constructive and sound from legal, social and ethical standpoints to develop economically with our business partners well into the future. |
In accordance with our basic ESG policy, and under the leadership of the Board of Directors, the highest management decision- making entity, all employees work in unison to advance ESG activities across the entire Group. In the conference mainly run by the responsible section of ESG, we discuss and examine ESG activities for the Group's contribution to the sustainable development of society along with our trusted associates.
The Group names its “stakeholders“, such as customers, local communities, business partners, employees, Shareholders and investors, as “trusted associates“. We are strongly aware of the importance of building relationships based on trust. Since before its listing in 2012, the Group has placed an emphasis on communication and the disclosure of information referred to in the management policy. This is because we believe the sustainable development of the Group depends on listening to and understanding the opinions and expectations of our many trusted associates while engaging in business activities.
While properly disclosing information, the Group uses discussions with stakeholders as an opportunity to examine whether its business activities meet their demands and expectations, and feeds back this information in business activities.
The Group understands that its sustainable development depends on the achievement of both improvement in economic value as a for-profit company and improvement in social value through initiatives for all trusted associates, including customers, regional society, business partners and employees. We decide our ESG topics in terms of their impact on trusted associates and Group operations. Our main ESG topics are those we believe will have a strong impact on both.
