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The FTSE4Good Index Series is a stock index series designed to promote investment in companies that meet the global standards of ESG practices.

The FTSE Blossom Japan Index is an indicator to measure the performance of Japanese companies that demonstrate strong ESG practices.

In addition to FTSE Russell's ESG assessment, this is a selective ESG composite index that screens through assessment of companies' environmental impact and management of climate change risk.

An index based on the MSCI Japan IMI Index, which serves as its parent index, and covers approximately 99% of the Japanese stock market, reflecting comprehensive ESG risks and incorporating stocks with comparatively superior ESG ratings within their industry.

An index that selects companies in terms of attracting, retaining and promoting women, as well as advancing gender diversity. Selection is based on data regarding female employment disclosed according to the Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace as well as information publicly disclosed by companies such as company policy on gender diversity.

The iSTOXX MUTB Japan Platinum Carrier 150 Index is an index jointly developed by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation and STOXX, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse. It consists of 150 Japanese companies that actively contribute to employee career development.

Compiled by the Access to Medicine Foundation once every two years, the Access to Medicine Index is a survey which evaluates 20 global pharmaceutical companies leading in initiatives for access to medicine issues in developing and emerging countries. ºÚÁÏÍø has been ranked 14th in 2024.

The CDP is a non-profit organization based in London that requests top ranking market capitalization companies and municipalities in principal countries to disclose information on climate change measures, water resource protection and forest conservation. In 2023, ºÚÁÏÍø has acquired "A- " in the fields of "climate change" and "water security".

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) publishes a list of enterprises that are outstanding in encouraging women’s empowerment in the workplace. The purpose of the initiative is to introduce listed businesses as attractive investment opportunities to investors who place emphasis on medium- and long-term corporate value improvement, thereby attracting investment to such companies, as well as accelerating women's workplace empowerment and corporate information disclosure. ºÚÁÏÍø was selected for the list in 2024.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has been presenting a METI Minister’s Award under the New Diversity Management Selection 100 Program with the aim of widely introducing the advanced efforts of companies that link diversity promotion to management results and encouraging companies to engage in diversity management. Among the priority themes, ºÚÁÏÍø received a particularly high evaluation for items such as activities promoting participation of diverse employees including women and employees with foreign nationalities, realizing diverse career paths for employees, and implementing workstyle innovation and management strategy transformation, and so on.

The Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program was established by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2016 with the aim of creating an environment in which large corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises, and other corporations that are practicing particularly excellent health and productivity management can be recognized by employees, job seekers, related companies, financial institutions, etc.

The NIKKEI Sustainable Management Survey, SDGs Management Edition, rates corporate initiatives for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in four categories of SDGs Strategy & Economic Value, Social Value, Environmental Value, and Governance. ºÚÁÏÍø was recognized with a 4.5-star rating.

ºÚÁÏÍø was recognized with a 4-star rating in the NIKKEI Sustainable Management Survey, Smart Work Edition,  which recognizes leading companies that aim to maximize their corporate value by accelerating investment in human resources while making the most of their human resources and generating new innovations, improving productivity. This survey, conducted by Nikkei Inc. since 2017, targets listed companies and leading unlisted companies nationwide, and evaluates “Smart Work Management”, which is defined as an initiative to maximize organizational performance through three elements: human resource utilization, human resource investment, and technology utilization, and is evaluated on a five-star scale.