SDGS DECLARATION

SDGs Declaration

Japan Create Group endorses the UN-proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and will actively pursue SDGs initiatives in its business. Additionally, through ESG-focused (Environment, Social, Governance) social contribution activities, we will contribute to realizing a sustainable society.

COMPANY GOALS

Japan Create Group
Group-wide SDGs Targets

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS — Japan Create Group supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Tackling Poverty

Through our various businesses, we proactively create employment, contributing to increased job opportunities and the economic stability of workers. We also collaborate with support organizations to promote charitable activities and address poverty in local communities.
Supporting Employees’ Mental and Physical Health

By practicing “health management,” we strive to maintain and improve the mental and physical well-being of employees. Healthy staff deliver high-quality services that benefit society. We also work to reduce work-related traffic accidents, fulfilling our social responsibility to build a safer society.
Providing Opportunities for Career Development

We aim to enhance educational opportunities for roughly 10,000 employees across the Group (including field staff), cultivating talent that contributes to a better society through individual career advancement and improved service quality.
Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

We actively increase employment opportunities for women across various business domains and strive to create flexible, supportive workplaces and systems that enable them to thrive, while promoting their appointment to managerial positions.
Diversity & Inclusion

We welcome people with diverse backgrounds, offer varied work styles, and create workplaces where everyone can work with peace of mind. By acknowledging each other and uniting with a sense of purpose, employees strive to generate new value.

SDGS GOVERNANCE

Organizational Structure for SDGs Promotion

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GROUP GOALS

Group companies’ SDGs Targets

- Supporting the mental and physical health of employees
  
  We actively promote “Health Management,” striving to maintain and improve employees’ mental and physical well-being. Believing that healthy employees enable the provision of high-quality services, we will realize social contribution through our own services.
- Providing career-development opportunities to all people
  
  We operate semiconductor maintenance training centers and forklift training centers to offer opportunities for career advancement.
- Achieving gender equality everywhere
  
  We will offer more employment and empowerment opportunities for women, create workplaces where women can work comfortably, and establish systems that ensure a fair division of roles between men and women.
- Promoting full, productive, and decent employment for all people
  
  We conduct fair recruiting activities (eliminating child and forced labor), protect all workers’ rights, and foster safe and secure working environments.
- Guaranteeing workers’ rights
  
  We comply with domestic laws and international agreements, ensure access to information for everyone, and respect workers’ fundamental freedoms.
- Eradicating work-related traffic accidents / Collecting PET-bottle caps
  
  By increasing opportunities for employee education and introducing systems that lead to safe driving, we aim to eliminate traffic accidents that occur in our business activities. We also participate in programs that convert collected PET-bottle caps into vaccines for developing countries.
- Realization of Decent Work
  
  We promote the taking of paid leave and work to improve work-life balance and employees’ physical and mental health.
- Introduction of a new automatic wrapping & pricing machine (auto-packer)
  
  By reducing tray usage and extending shelf life, we work to lessen food loss.
- Protection of forest resources
  
  We engage in environmental protection by reducing and reusing the paper used in our operations.
- Tackling Poverty
  
  We will increase the number of workplaces designed for women to work comfortably, thereby expanding employment, and we will increase the handling of fair-trade products in our stores.
- Supporting the mental and physical health of employees
  
  By creating workplaces that consider health and safety, we strive to maintain and improve employees’ physical and mental well-being.
- Providing opportunities for career building
  
  Through the Beruf Academy we engage in our own talent-development programs, and our career-change service specialized in the fresh-food distribution industry supports career advancement.
- Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
  
  We will further develop women’s abilities and promote their success. (Achieving the “Platinum Eruboshi” certification criteria)
- Initiatives to reduce CO₂
  
  We work on CO₂ reduction by promoting office energy saving, streamlining logistics, adopting eco-friendly vehicles, reducing plastics, simplifying packaging, and simplifying promotional materials.
- Diversity & Inclusion
  
  We promote the employment and retention of diverse employees and improve workplace environments. We create working conditions in which women can comfortably work.
- Employment support for foreigners
  
  As part of assistance to developing countries, we support foreign employment, provide job-training opportunities (Omotenashi School), and offer preparatory courses for Specified Skilled Worker exams.
- Operation of local tenants
  
  Together with staff living in the store areas, we engage in community development as food-retail tenants.
- Reducing food loss
  
  We tackle food-loss issues by improving ordering accuracy, discounting items near expiry, and promoting understanding of “best-before” dates.
- Climate-change measures
  
  We prepare for safe store operations during bad weather or disasters. (Understanding emergency-contact flows, conducting disaster-time crime-prevention drills, and storing disaster supplies at each store)
- Protection of forest resources
  
  We are committed to protecting the environment by reducing and reusing paper used in our operations.
- Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment
  
  We create an environment where women can work comfortably and strive to increase the appointment of female managers.
- Realizing diversity & inclusion / decent work
  
  We acknowledge each person’s diversity, provide various work styles, and build a workplace where employees can work with peace of mind. We also promote the taking of paid leave and work to improve work-life balance and employees’ mental and physical health.
- Reducing environmental impact
  
  We strive to cut waste plastics by developing products that use reusable materials.
- Initiatives for health promotion
  
  Through our fitness business, professionally skilled staff support people in building good health.
- Initiatives for gender equality
  
  We will increase employment opportunities for women, create environments where they can thrive, and promote the appointment of female managers.
- Promotion of diversity
  
  We proactively hire women, establish workplaces where they can work comfortably, and expand opportunities for them to shine.
- Realization of Decent Work
  
  We promote the taking of paid leave and work to improve work-life balance and employees’ physical and mental health.
- Waste reduction
  
  We promote significant waste reduction through our golf-equipment recycling business.
- Employee qualification acquisition support
  
  We support the acquisition of technical and vocational skills and increase the number of people who can obtain fulfilling jobs.
- Access to high-quality groundwater
  
  We supply high-quality groundwater through advanced well-drilling technology.
- Building clean and safe cities
  
  We contribute to resilient urban development through high-quality disaster-prevention construction.
- Protection of forest resources
  
  We work on environmental protection by reducing the paper used in our operations.
- Reduction of disaster risk
  
  We increase technical proposals for reducing disaster risks and contribute to strengthening urban resilience.
- Employment support for persons with disabilities
  
  We operate Type-A continuous employment support facilities to help people with disabilities secure stable income.
- Supporting employees’ healthy minds and bodies
  
  We strive to maintain and enhance our employees’ mental and physical health. Believing that healthy employees enable high-quality services, we aim to contribute to society through our own services.
- Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment
  
  We provide more employment opportunities and career platforms for women. While creating a workplace where women can work comfortably, we will establish systems that ensure fair sharing of roles between men and women.
- Realization of Decent Work
  
  We encourage the use of paid leave and strive to improve work-life balance and the mental and physical health of our employees.
- Employment support for persons with disabilities
  
  We operate Type-A continuous employment support facilities to help people with disabilities secure stable income.
- Supporting employees’ healthy minds and bodies
  
  We strive to maintain and enhance our employees’ mental and physical health. Believing that healthy employees enable high-quality services, we aim to contribute to society through our own services.
- Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment
  
  We provide more employment opportunities and career platforms for women. While creating a workplace where women can work comfortably, we will establish systems that ensure fair sharing of roles between men and women.
- Diversity & Inclusion
  
  We embrace each individual’s diversity, offer flexible work styles, and build a workplace where everyone can work with peace of mind.
- Realization of Decent Work
  
  We encourage the use of paid leave and strive to improve work-life balance and the mental and physical health of our employees.
- Providing opportunities for career building
  
  Through responsible employee education and development, we supply talented people to society at large and contribute to creating a better future.
- Creating employment opportunities for seniors
  
  We work on business development and creating workplaces where experienced, skilled seniors can continue to thrive for many years.
- Contributing to the resilience of electrical infrastructure
  
  We promote the development of excellent products indispensable for infrastructure maintenance.
- Environmentally conscious manufacturing
  
  We maintain zero hazardous waste emissions in our production processes and continue eco-friendly manufacturing.
- Climate change countermeasures
  
  We will switch our company vehicles to eco-cars to reduce CO2 emissions.
- Protection of forest resources
  
  We will switch all paper used in our operations to FSC-certified paper.
- Employment support for persons with disabilities
  
  We operate Type-A continuous employment support facilities to help people with disabilities secure stable income.
- Promoting Diversity & Inclusion / Decent Work
  
  We respect each individual’s diversity, offer various work styles, and build a workplace where everyone can work with peace of mind. We also encourage the use of paid leave and strive to improve work–life balance and the mental and physical health of our employees.
- Supporting employees’ healthy minds and bodies / PET bottle cap collection activities
  
  We actively practice “health management,” striving to maintain and improve employees’ mental and physical health, and we participate in a program that turns collected PET bottle caps into vaccines for developing countries.
- Providing opportunities for career development
  
  Through responsible employee education and development, we supply talented people to society at large and contribute to creating a better future.
- Diversity & Inclusion
  
  We respect the diversity of each employee, offer various work styles, and build a workplace where everyone can work with peace of mind.
- Protection of forest resources
  
  We work on environmental protection by reducing and reusing paper used in our operations.
- Promotion of wellness
  
  We promote wellness lifestyles through collaboration with business partners.
- Delivering safe and secure water
  
  We supply safe and secure water through collaboration with business partners.
- Diversity & Inclusion
  
  By collaborating with business partners, we help solve companies’ labor shortages and drive business growth.
- Measures against global warming
  
  We reduce CO2 and other emissions and purify the air through products that lessen environmental impact.