The company discloses that it has established a rigorous human rights due diligence process aimed at promptly identifying, preventing, and mitigating potential human rights issues. Also, the company states that it collaborated with external human rights experts, referenced international codes and benchmarks, and developed a comprehensive list of human rights concerns, ranging from forced labor and child labor, as well as a wide range of other human rights issues, such as freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, and discrimination. Further, it states that it assessed the status of its activities for its listed human rights issues by interviewing stakeholders (consumers, business partners, employees, and society) in Japan and other countries and by investigating internal documents such as but not limited to questionnaires, surveys and certain report materials and referred to external documents for potential impact on human rights. Additionally, it discloses that a third-party organization specializing in human rights risk assessment was commissioned to conduct the assessment. Also, country-specific human rights risks were extracted from materials such as the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) survey on discrimination, World Bank surveys on training and education and consumer rights, WIN World Survey research materials on gender equality, and UNICEF surveys on child labor. Furthermore, it states that it assessed the severity and likelihood of both potential and apparent risks regarding impacts on human rights in Japan and abroad. Moreover, it discloses important areas of human rights/high risks that includes discriminatory actions/expressions, violation of compliance/fair competition, personal/confidential information leakages, employees’ personal data and privacy, incomplete supplier management, occupational safety and health issues (work-related accidents), breach of working hours, breaks, and rest period (overtime-work), and harassment and abuse.