
Our Group defines corporate governance as a critical management issue for increasing corporate value through sustainable growth. The entire Group is actively committed to improving corporate governance.
By strengthening our internal control functions through proactively developing "activities for advancing compliance and risk management" with an involvement of all officers and employees and by augmenting and strengthening the management-oversight functions of our Board of Directors and the audit functions of our auditors, we are creating a transparent corporate control system that can accommodate the reliance of our shareholders and society.
To strengthen our governance framework, we proposed that managers of subsidiaries and other Group companies construct a system to improve compliance and risk management. As a result, all Group entities now have their own systems equivalent to ours. Under the initiative of relevant control departments, the Group Information Exchange Meeting monitors efforts to enhance compliance and risk management, while also tracking business conditions and progress of profit plans at individual companies.
Aware of its mission to increase corporate value and meet shareholder expectations, the Group understands that it must fulfill its responsibilities with respect to employees, local residents, local communities, business partners, investors, and other non-shareholding stakeholders. For this reason, we have instituted the Disclosure Regulations to facilitate proper assessments of our Group. Our aim is to help stakeholders understand the Group and to win their broad consent to reconciling their interests of different stakeholder groups. With the decision of the Disclosure Committee, consisting chiefly of the president and the director responsible for finance sections, management information is disclosed in a fair, timely, and appropriate manner.