In December of last year we set 15 items of materiality (important issues) as social issues that our Group should address, taking into consideration the degree of interest of our stakeholders and the importance to our Company.
There are 3 items for solving problems through the business and 12 items for basic activities that support the business

• STEP１

  International guidelines *Internal evaluation of items (stratified by importance to us)

  From the viewpoint of importance to our company, we interviewed related divisions in our company regarding a total of 37 items, 36 items from GRI and 1 item from SDGs, and scored them (Three-grade evaluation).
  * ISO26000 (Guidance on CSR published in 2010), SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN in 2015), GRI Standards (Guidelines for integrated report entry items established in 2016)

• STEP２

  External evaluation of international guideline items (stratified by the degree of interest of our stakeholders)

  Adding points to the issues that the external evaluation organization pays attention to and the number of companies that consider items important among the four benchmark companies, we stratified them into three grades (evaluated by a third-party organization).

• STEP3

  Confirmation of important issues (materiality)

  Items that are located in the “particularly high area” of importance to our Company and degree of interest of our stakeholders are judged to be the most important issues.

• STEP4

  Identification of important issues (materiality)

  Five important themes and 15 important issues have been identified.