External Evaluation

Created by the global index and data provider FTSE Russell, the FTSE Blossom Japan Index is designed to measure the performance of companies demonstrating strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The FTSE Blossom Japan Index is used by a wide variety of market participants to create and assess responsible investment funds and other products.

The FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index was created by FTSE Russell, a global index provider, which was rolled out on March 30, 2022, and is set up as a sector-neutral index that tracks the relative performance of Japanese companies exhibiting outstanding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance across each sector. In addition, the index only includes companies recognized for their improvement initiatives as assessed by their TPI (Transition Pathway Initiative) management quality score. This score weighting applies to companies with particularly high greenhouse gas emissions to further promote the transition to a low-carbon economy.

The index uses TOPIX, a representative stock price index that indicates trends in the Japanese market, as its universe, and determines the weighting of component stocks by focusing on the status of environmental information disclosure and the level of carbon efficiency (carbon emissions per unit of sales). By adopting rules such as increasing the weight of companies that fully disclose environmental information and companies with high carbon efficiency (low carbon emissions per net sales), the index aims to stimulate environmental initiatives and information disclosure in the market as a whole, thereby revitalizing the stock market.

Selected as one of the top 500 enterprises for Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations and recognized as a White 500 company under the 2023 Certified Health & Productivity Management Organizations Recognition Program.

The Healthy Company Declaration is an initiative to have 10,000 companies or more (30,000 at present) pledge that they are declaring their engagement in promoting health. The initiative is carried out with the support of insurers such as the Japan Health Insurance Association, under the Healthy Cities and Workplace Health Promotion Declaration 2020 of the Nippon Kenko Kaigi. In December 2019, the Company received the "Silver Certificate" as an Excellent Healthy Company, and in September 2021, the Company received the "Gold Certificate" as an Excellent Healthy Company.

Based on the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare certifies companies that have formulated an action plan for general employers and meet certain standards as companies that support child rearing.
We received the Certification in February 2022.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has been recognizing enterprises and organizations advancing the introduction and utilization of teleworking as Telework Pioneers and selecting and announcing companies with sufficient achievements as the top hundred telework pioneers since FY2015. We are selected in November 2021.

The Nikkei Smart Work Management Survey has been organized by Nikkei, Inc. since 2017. The survey targets all listed companies and leading non-listed companies in Japan. It defines “smart work management” as efforts to maximize organizational performance through the three elements. Based on the survey results, we have received a rating of three out of five stars.