Organizational Governance: Under the approach of "Sampo-yoshi," ITOCHU Corporation believes it is important to fully understand the social and environmental impacts of our business activities. By identifying material non-financial issues and devising sustainability action plans for each of our business domains, we implement a comprehensive Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) cycle that ensures our focus on contributing to the sustainability of society.

Human Rights: As a company with diverse business operations across the globe, business and human rights is a very important issue that requires special care. We therefore reflect this philosophy in our approach to supply chain management and investment decisions. We also recognize people as an integral asset to our business and take measures to ensure that we respect the human rights and individuality of each and every employee.

Labor Practices: ITOCHU Corporation invests in human capital development to provide learning opportunities and working environments that welcome diversity and professionalism. In doing so we hope to nurture and develop individuals that can assist the global outreach of our business. This focus of ours includes the provision of health and safety support for our employees and their families regardless of their international station.

The Environment: Our fundamental responsibility is to monitor and understand the environmental impacts of our business activities. Building upon this self-awareness, we aim to both reduce the environmental burden and increase eco-efficiency in our business activities, as well as enhance and expand upon environmentally beneficial or impactful products and solutions. More specifically regarding the latter, resource sustainability, climate change adaptation, and biodiversity conservation are priority topics that we engage in.

Fair Operating Practices: First and foremost, our priority is to conduct business activities in accordance with laws, regulations, and guidelines wherever applicable. Beyond basic compliance, furthermore, we aim to provide a working environment for our employees wherein they are enabled to engage in their work with honesty and high ethical standards, without feeling or being coerced into complacency. As such, our compliance program takes into account these priorities and incorporates mechanisms to monitor and review our performance to better enhance our program when necessary.

Consumer Issues: ITOCHU Corporation handles a variety of products and services that are essential to consumers. Therefore, we aim to ensure that high standards are met in the safety and quality of our products and services, that environmental footprint is minimized where possible, and that consumers are informed as necessary on sustainable consumption.

Community Involvement and Development: We are community members in each of the regions that we operate in and as such, aim to contribute where possible to the sustainable development of local communities we operate with. We therefore aim to go beyond our basic expectations and proactively engage in community investment through both philanthropic activities and our business activities.