The Human Rights Awareness Promotion Committee Secretariat formulates the annual plan for human rights awareness training, the Chairman of the Human Rights Awareness Promotion Committee and headquarters committee members approve the plan, which is then carried out.
In fiscal 2024, we held training for new employees covering human rights in general. We also held e-learning-based training for all employees in the domestic Group that focused on abuse of power in the workplace, in an effort to deepen the understanding of measures to prevent harassment, and appropriate responses to such behavior.
Regional members systematically participated in external training courses organized by outside human rights-related organizations of which the Company is a member.

In anticipation of Human Rights Week in December each year, the Group encourages employees to submit diversity and human rights slogans. In this way, the Group is working to enhance human rights awareness.
In fiscal 2024, employees at 10 Group companies in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Japan submitted 456 slogans. The members of the Human Rights Awareness Promotion Committee selected Global Best Award slogans from among the Local Best Award slogans chosen by each Group company based on originality, ease of understanding, and educational effects under the theme of “Diversity and Human Rights.”
The award-wining slogan will be used at various events organized by the Group.

Global Best Award-winning slogan: “Every Voice Matters, Every Right Counts, Equity for All.”

Winner: Awat Satawanichapong (Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma（Thailand）Co.,Ltd.)

Slogan Thoughts

I am deeply honored to receive this award. I firmly believe that diversity and human rights can only be achieved through continuous advocacy and promotion, with a genuine willingness to listen to every voice within the organization and society without judgment based on any particular standard. This ensures that every voice can truly be heard and communicated.
By doing so, everyone can take part in building a world that is equitable and inclusive for all. As reflected in the slogan: Every Voice Matters, Every Right Counts, Equity for All. When true equality is achieved, people will open their hearts to accept and understand it, embracing one another’s humanity with sincerity and respect.

The Group conducts its business activities in accordance with the laws and regulations of each country and region, and the rules of each company. In this way, we are working to ensure that we do not engage in or participate in violations of human rights. In the unlikely event that a human rights violation is discovered, we work to quickly resolve the problem.
We conducted self-assessment of human rights in February and March of 2025, targeting 11 companies within the Group (including our overseas offices). This assessment is intended to assess human rights risks at each company and to check whether the human rights risks identified in the previous self-assessment have been improved. We collected responses from each company and compare and evaluate the results with reference to those obtained in the previous assessment, and check the status of our efforts.

*Human rights due diligence is the process of identifying, preventing, and mitigating adverse impacts related to human rights.

In the Group’s employment selection, we have set a basic policy to respect basic human rights and to conduct selection fairly based on experience, ability, aptitude, and interest, without regard to nationality, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, family situation, beliefs or other factors that are unrelated to the applicant’s aptitude or ability.

In the selection process, we conduct fair employment screening based on the applicant’s aptitude and ability and do not ask inappropriate questions that may violate one’s human rights. Furthermore, one is not required to indicate gender on the job application form for new graduates, the internship application form for students, or the registration forms for career recruitment.