Respecting Human Rights While always respecting human rights, as stipulated in Kowa Group Charter of Corporate Behavior and Kowa Group Human Rights Policy, our company group shall establish an organization where employees can improve themselves and work with good quality of life. We shall also prevent forced labor and discrimination throughout the entire supply chain. These efforts have been informed to all employees through brochures and the internal intranet as well as utilization of e-Learning.

Supplier Code of Conduct・Declaration of Partnership Building

Our company group together with our suppliers aims to contribute to the resolution of social issues by promoting initiatives such as legal compliance, respect for human rights, and environmental conservation in order to realize a sustainable and stable supply chain. To this end, we will strive to deepen our understanding through two-way communication with our suppliers while at the same time requesting that our suppliers proactively implement the "Kowa Group Supplier Code of Conduct".
Furthermore, we have announced the “Declaration of Partnership Building” in February 2023, with the aim of building new partnerships by enhancing cooperation, co-existence and co-prosperity with all suppliers in our supply chain and business operators striving to create values.

●Human Resource Development Policy

Enhancing the stratified education and training, our company group is promoting the development of human resources who can respond to changes in business environments and create changes by themselves.
We also respect individual personality and provide various opportunities for career choices, including support for self-development through introduction of a qualification allowance system, implementation of overseas language training and fulfillment of a work location selection system.

●Internal Environment Improvement Policy

Our company group strives to develop a workplace where all employees can play active roles, maintain a good balance between work and life, and continue working for many years based on the awareness of the necessity to ensure diversity in human resources. Regularly conducting organizational surveys, we review and revise the systems for improving analysis results in order to enhance engagement. By introducing an hourly paid leave system and a staggered working hours system, we are creating a more pleasant work environment.
Additionally, we aim to extend the average years of service for female career-track employees and increase the proportion of female manager ratio by fostering an organizational culture that encourages female employees to feel fulfilled in their work and continuously build their careers.

Promoting Women’s Empowerment

In order to continuously promote women’s empowerment from different perspectives, we launched the Women’s Empowerment Project in September 2023, centering around female employees. Through the project, we have started discussions and information gathering to foster awareness leading to the next generation, promote the activities aimed at realizing a more pleasant work environment, and support women’s career independence. We have been working together with Kowa Workers Union to collect needs for women’s work styles, understand the issues and build a cross-divisional network. In the future, we will promote activities for creating workplaces where women can work more actively, and address women’s peculiar health issues to review and improve the related systems as required.

Promoting Health Through promoting Japanese-style self-care, including new drug development, our company group is contributing to maintaining our customers’ health and improving medical care.
We have also declared promotion of “Health and Productivity Management” for achieving well-being of our employees and their families, and we will continue to strive for further improvement in health-related issues.

Health and Productivity Management

Our company group has introduced health management programs such as our company’s original health control application “KOWA MILEAGE CLUB” and “Smoking Cessation Support Program” helpful for forming healthy lifestyle habits serving as a foundation of health throughout the life to support visualization of health and maintenance and promotion of health for our company group employees.

Health and Productivity Management Meeting

At the biannual Health and Productivity Management Meeting, the Representative Director serves as the Chief Health Officer and a dedicated department, acting as a secretariat, recognizes the issues and discusses their measures as to health management promoted by our company group. In cooperation with Kowa Health Insurance Society, Kowa Workers Union, occupational physicians, and public health nurses, we are promoting the health management of the Kowa Group.

Environmental Measures Through our business activities, our company group is taking climate change countermeasures as well as actions to prevent various types of pollution through promotion of initiatives that to contribute to sustainable development of the society based on the “Environmental Policy of Kowa Group”.
Furthermore, to show our commitment to reduce the impacts of our business activities and to raise awareness of contribution to biological diversity conservation, we have expressed our support for “Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) Initiative for Biodiversity Conservation”.

Climate Change Countermeasures

In order to realize carbon neutrality in 2050, we intend to contribute to reducing environmental impacts due to climate change. The business promoted by our company group is greatly associated with the global environment. It is our definite responsibility to make efforts to preserve the environment as our corporate social mission. Through regular internal environmental audits, we have improved our continuous approach to environmental issues, addressing energy conservation, renewable energy, waste reduction and recycling. We will steadily reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our business activities and make efforts to build a sustainable society.

Contributing to Society Our company group aims to contribute to the realization of a healthy and prosperous lifestyle for people through regional revitalization via support for various sports activities and emergency and disaster support.