We have established the Sustainability Principles of Conduct for Supply Chains as requirements to be observed by all business partners involved in our group's business and transactions. We request that all our business partners comply with the relevant international treaties, norms and the laws of Japan and other countries, as well as understanding the purpose and content of these principles. We ask for your cooperation, including that of your partner companies, to realize a sustainable society together with our group.

1. Respect for Human Rights, Good Work Environment, and Health and Safety

Respect the human rights of all people in all our business and transactions and promote activities aiming to improve the work environment and to ensure health and safety.

• Prohibit forced labor
• Prohibit child labor
• Prohibit bullying/harassment
• Accept diversity
• Prohibit all discrimination
• Prohibit inhumane treatment
• Respect children's rights
• Ensure a safe, hygienic and healthy work environment
• Eliminate long working hours, and appropriately manage working hours, holidays and vacations, etc.
• Ensure appropriate wages, comply with minimum wages and provide employee welfare
• Respect freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
• Provide equal opportunities in recruitment and hiring, and carry out fair and impartially hiring selection
• Provide education and training opportunities for skill advancement and career development
• Comply with responsible employment obligations and give consideration to stable employment
• Establish a product and service quality control structure
• Carry out human rights due diligence and introduce corrective action
• Develop a business continuity plan (BCP)

2. Promotion of Fair Trade (Corruption Prevention)

Comply with the laws of Japan and other countries and international guidelines. We provide fair, equitable and free competition opportunities.

• Comply with the relevant laws and guidelines of Japan and other countries
• Provide fair, equitable, transparent and free competition opportunities in the procurement of goods and services
• Eliminate transactions that use a dominant position or are complicit in exploitation
• Prevent bribery and corruption
• Eliminate anti-competitive transactions and transactions involving conflicts of interest
• Eliminate transactions with anti-social forces
• Appropriately manage corporate ethics

3. Environmental Protection

Promote product and service procurement activities that consider the global environment throughout our supply chain.

• Establish an environmental management structure
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Use energy efficiently
• Respect biodiversity
• Reduce plastic use and disposal
• Appropriately manage and reduce waste
• Provide and promote products and services that reduce the environmental impacts

4. Ensuring Quality and Safety

Prioritize quality and safety in procurement.

• Provide high-quality products and services
• Establish a structure to ensure and manage the safety of products and services

5. Thorough Information Management

Strictly protect and manage the personal information and confidential information involved in procurement activities.

• Protect personal information and privacy
• Appropriately manage intellectual property rights and confidential information, etc.
• Strengthen cybersecurity

6. Contribution to Society

Enter in dialogue with stakeholders, share values with local communities, solve social issues and promote initiatives to realize a sustainable society.

• Support the resolution of local community issues
• Invest in education - one of the values shared with society concerning human resources
• Promote the employment of human resources in each community

7. Provision of Relief Measures

• Establish an appropriate grievance mechanism
• Ensure access for users and guarantee anonymity and confidentiality