Promoting Human Resources Diversification in Japan

Promoting efforts to embed and utilize through numerical expansion and systems enhancement

Promotion Plan on Human Resources Diversification 2013 (Japan)

Since December 2003, ITOCHU has promoted efforts to diversify its workforce in Japan. The motivation here is a recognized need to respond to changes in the external environment, such as intensifying competition spurred by economic globalization and the race to secure human resources due to Japan’s declining birthrate and aging society. ITOCHU must also respond to the need to create new businesses, as well as address the disproportionate age makeup of its workforce.
In fiscal 2010, ITOCHU launched “Promotion Plan on Human Resources Diversification 2013 (Japan),” a new roadmap aimed at enhancing individual and organizational abilities further by putting an environment in place that leverages and utilizes the characteristics of each employee without regard to gender, nationality or age. Set to run from April 2009 to March 2014, this new plan outlines concrete measures to implement with emphasis on supporting career formation for women, seniors and other human resources in their respective fields.
One example of these efforts is the hiring of students from universities overseas to work at ITOCHU Headquarters. By supporting the push to secure, embed and utilize more diverse human resources, our goal is to create a more attractive company and corporate culture. Similarly, by reforming consciousness around our approach to work, and through measures that encourage appropriate time management and the taking of holidays, we seek to realize comfortable, dynamic working environments inside ITOCHU.

Number of male and female employees

(Unit: persons)
	Men	Women	Total
FY 2009	3,161	1,014	4,175
FY 2010	3,191	1,068	4,259
FY 2011	3,201	1,100	4,301

(As of March 31, 2010)

Total hires of new graduates

Mid-career hires (career-track)

Supporting the Participation in Society by People with Disability

In 1987, ITOCHU Corporation established Itochu Uneedus Co., Ltd., as a special subsidiary based on the Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act (Law for the Employment Promotion of the Disabled) in order to create work opportunities for those with disability. As of July 2011, the proportion of our workforce with disabilities is 1.99%, which exceeds the legally stipulated ratio of 1.8%. We will continue to actively support the participation in society by people with disabilities.

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