Kao is a daily sundries and chemical product manufacturer founded in 1887. FY2022 net sales were 1,551.1 billion yen.

Kao operates in over 100 countries and regions, and has over 35,000 employees.

Its main operations focus on Hygiene and Living Care, Health and Beauty Care, Life Care, and Cosmetics in the consumer sector, and supporting new value creation in industry through its Chemical Business. Kao has aggressively pursued the expansion of its business domains in Japan and overseas.

Since issuing its Kao Environmental Statement in 2009, the company has applied its strengths in environmental tech to make contributions toward the realization of a sustainable society, and is accelerating business development based on ESG management.

Mitsubishi Corporation’s business domains span a wide range of industries. With offices in nearly 90 countries and regions worldwide, we collaborate with its roughly 1,700 subsidiaries and affiliates to unite toward promoting energy transformation (EX) and digital transformation (DX) as a core initiative for the future.

In Integrated Report 2023, following our value creation process detailed in Integrated Report 2022, we explain our unique value creation achieved by connecting our various strengths. The report focuses on the strengths of our businesses that we have cultivated and the interconnections “between businesses” and “between people" that we value.

The MS&AD Group is one of the World-leading insurance and financial services groups with operations in 48 countries and regions around the world. Aiming to become a corporate group that supports a resilient and sustainable society by 2030, the Group engages in management focused on working with society to creating shared value (CSV). The MS&AD Integrated Report 2023 highlights the theme of “Grow together with society as a platform provider of risk solutions” and provides an overview of the first year of its Medium-Term Management Plan (2022–25), introduces three materialities for sustainability, and outlines CSV initiatives related to addressing those issues.

Nippon Sanso Holdings Group is the world’s fourth-largest supplier of industrial gases, electronic material gases, and medical gases in over 30 countries and regions including Japan, U.S., Europe, and Asia & Oceania. The company’s Thermos business provides THERMOS brand products to over 120 countries around the world. Since its founding as Nippon Sanso Ltd. in 1910, our Group’s mission has been to apply innovative gas solutions toward creating social value, increasing industrial productivity, enhancing human well-being, and contributing to a more sustainable future.

One of Japan’s largest IT service enterprise, NTT DATA contributes to society and corporations using information technology to create new paradigms and values. Repeatedly transformed itself over the years to adapt to changes in the external environment, the company has recorded consecutive increases in net sales every year in the 34 years since its founding.

Under its medium-term management plan, which looks ahead to FY2025, the company is working to further increase its global competitiveness by deepening its understanding of clients and enhancing sophisticated technical capabilities across its network of bases in more than 50 countries and regions.

Through this Integrated Report, we hope to promote a greater understanding of NTT DATA as we strive to be a company that is trusted by clients around the world by conveying our commitment to sustainability management and to working alongside clients towards the realization of a sustainable society.

The Sinanen Holdings Group offers energy, housing, and daily-life services. Since FY2023, the company has been advancing its Third Medium-Term Management Plan. Extending over the five-year period through FY2027, when the company will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding, this plan is based on a vision of “evolving into a comprehensive energy service provider that helps build a carbon-free world and supports innovative living.” During this period, the company will accelerate efforts to strengthen its management foundation and implement growth strategies.

In this Integrated Report, the company provides a wide range of information on matters such as sustainability initiatives, financial information, and non-financial information with a focus on the framework and core initiatives of the Third Medium-Term Management Plan.

The SKY Perfect JSAT Group has maintained and operated a network of geostationary satellites for over 30 years, and is Japan’s only corporate enterprise engaged in both space and media. The SKY Perfect JSAT Space Business provides services such as internet connections for aircraft and vessels, emergency backup lines, various satellite communication services, and earth observation data and analysis services. As Japan’s only platform operator for digital broadcasts via communications satellites (CS Digital), SKY Perfect JSAT operates the multichannel pay TV broadcast service SKY PerfecTV! and its Media Business, which is engaged in distribution, FTTH and media solutions.

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. is a chemical manufacturer established in 1940 and boasts a global top share for photoresists. The company applies its advanced microprocessing technology and high purity technology in the manufacturing of photoresists, a chemical product that is essential in the manufacturing of semiconductors. Tokyo Ohka Kogyo embraces the management vision of “The e-Material Global Company^TM,” which contributes to a sustainable future through chemistry. In this integrated report, the company conveys its long-term perspective on value creation from the viewpoints of social impact and linkage and interaction among capital resources.