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

Our company group launched the Women’s Empowerment Project in September 2023 to promote the activities aimed at fostering awareness for the next generation and creating a work environment in which women can work longer and more comfortably. In cooperation with Kowa Workers Union, the project holds regular luncheon gatherings primarily for female union members to gather feedback from employees, identify issues related to women’s working styles, collect relevant information, and build a cross-divisional network.
Furthermore, the new manager training held in September 2025 provided a session to experience menstrual cramps, and a compliance training designed for all employees including group company employees was held in the following month to promote an understanding of women’s peculiar health issues.
In November of the same year, a menstrual leave was renamed to “L-leave,” so as to develop an environment where female employees can take the leave with less hesitation.
In addition, to help female employees image their future careers, we had interviews with female managers and shared some cases considered as role models.
We will continue to strive to develop workplaces where not only women but also all employees can work more actively, and 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.
Further, in addition to the women’s empowerment, initiatives for maintenance and promotion of women’s health have been enhanced.

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 environmental pollution through promotion of initiatives that to contribute to sustainable development of the society based on the “Environmental Policy of Kowa Group.”
Furthermore, to minimize the impacts of our group’s business on the environment and promote initiatives through our business, on the basis of the understanding of importance of biodiversity conservation, we have expressed our support for “Keidanren Initiative for Biodiversity Conservation.”

Climate Change Countermeasures

Our company group is promoting initiatives toward achieving carbon neutrality in 2050. With the recognition that preserving the environment is an important societal responsibility, we have continued to review and improve the initiatives under the environmental management system. As one of the key measures, we have been reducing greenhouse gas emissions through promotion of energy conservation and use of more renewable energy.
We will continue the approach to the reduction and improve the measures to tackle climate change, thereby contributing to realization of a sustainable society.

Contributing to Society Our company group aims to contribute to revitalization of the regional society and realization of healthy and affluent lives of people in the community through support for sports activities and other various community-based activities and through social contribution activities such as disaster relief, and also works for long-term development of the regional society.