The ESG Finance Awards Japan is an awards system established by the Ministry of the Environment with the aim of evaluating and honoring financial institutions and organizations that are actively engaged in ESG finance and companies that are committed to Sustainable management, and sharing the results of these efforts widely with society at large.
At the 5th ESG Finance Awards Japan, we were selected in the "Environmentally Sustainable Company Division," which recognizes companies that meet certain standards for the completeness of their disclosure of important environmental issues. We were also selected as a "Company with Progress in Environmental Disclosure," which recognizes companies that have improved their disclosure content to make it easier to understand and are expected to further develop.
We have been selected as a "Next Nadeshiko Company Supporting Dual-Income and Child-Rearing" for fiscal year 2025. The "Next Nadeshiko Company Supporting Dual-Income and Child-Rearing" is a program jointly selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange to recognize companies that have particularly outstanding initiatives related to gender-neutral work-life balance support that enables dual-income and child-rearing.
The "Nadeshiko Brand" was established in 2012 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in collaboration with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to select and announce listed companies that excel in promoting women's participation in the workforce. The aim is to promote investment value in companies and accelerate corporate initiatives by introducing listed companies that excel in promoting women's participation in the workforce as attractive companies to investors who place importance on "improving corporate value in the medium to long term."
This is the 10th consecutive year that the company has been selected for the award since its inception in fiscal 2012. Going forward, we will continue to build a solid "female leadership pipeline" and actively support the further advancement of women.
The "L-Star" is awarded by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to companies that have formulated and submitted a general employer action plan based on the Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace and have demonstrated excellence in their efforts to promote women's participation in the workforce. The implementation status of these efforts is evaluated based on five criteria (1) recruitment, 2) continued employment, 3) working style including working hours, 4) ratio of managers, and 5) diverse career paths. In December 2022, our company was certified at the third level, the highest level, of the "L-Star" award.
Our LGBTQ initiatives have been recognized by Work with Pride, a voluntary organization that supports the promotion and establishment of diversity, inclusion, and equity for sexual minorities, including LGBTQ, and we have been awarded a Gold rating in the PRIDE Index for the ninth consecutive year (from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2025). (In 2016, we received a Silver rating.)
The "100 Prime" program selects companies that are working on "Diversity 2.0" to step up their efforts to continue creating corporate value in the medium to long term, based on the "Diversity 2.0 Action Guidelines" compiled by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in March 2017. Since its launch in fiscal year 2017, two companies have been selected each year, with our company and Tokyu Railways being selected in fiscal year 2019.
By incorporating diverse perspectives into our services and products, we hope to promote innovation in lifestyles and work styles and continue to be the "railway of choice" for our customers. Going forward, we will continue to further promote diversity management that allows diverse human resources to thrive.
We have been selected as one of the "Health Management Brands 2026," a selection jointly made by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This marks our eighth time being selected as a "Health Management Brand," making us the most frequently selected company in the land transportation industry.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange jointly select companies that consider employee health management from a management perspective and strategically address it, designating them as "Health Management Brands."
Our company and Tokyu Railways 's highly unique health management promotion system, as well as our efforts in health management initiatives, exercise habits improvement, and dietary literacy improvement, which leverage the strength of having Tokyu Hospital, a company-owned hospital, were highly evaluated.
We have been certified as a "Health and Productivity Management Outstanding Organization 2026 (White 500)" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Health Conference.
The "Health Management Excellent Corporation" program, established by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Health Council, recognizes corporations, including large and small businesses, that practice excellent health management. The top 500 companies in the large corporation category that are certified as "Health Management Excellent Corporations" are recognized as "Health Management Excellent Corporations (Large Corporation Category) White 500."
We have been certified as an "Excellent Food Education Practice Organization 2026" by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
The "Excellent Food Education Practices Corporation" award system recognizes corporations that provide healthy meals to their employees and implement and evaluate initiatives that contribute to improving their eating habits. In the first year of the "Excellent Food Education Practices Corporations 2026" awards, 333 corporations were certified.
Since 2014, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has been awarding companies that are taking excellent measures to enable employees to balance treatment and work. By widely publicizing these efforts throughout society and companies, the government is promoting the balance between treatment and work for employees with cancer or other illnesses.
In 2016, we received the Encouragement Award at the Awards for Companies Taking Excellent Initiatives to Help Cancer Patients Balance Their Work and Treatment.
In fiscal 2019, the Smooth Biz Promotion Grand Prize and Smooth Biz Promotion Award were established with the aim of further popularizing and promoting Smooth Biz to Tokyo residents and fostering social momentum.
Our company was awarded the Smooth Biz Promotion Award as a company or organization that has taken ambitious and cutting-edge initiatives.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare established the Shining Telework Award in 2015 to further promote and disseminate telework.
In 2019, the company received the Special Encouragement Award from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for its exemplary efforts in introducing teleworking, including the ingenuity and innovation it has implemented.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications established the "Top 100 Telework Pioneers" program in 2015 to further promote the spread of telework.
In 2016, 53 organizations were named "Telework Pioneers," and among them, companies that were particularly proactive in terms of the frequency, scale, and implementation rate of teleworking were selected as "Top 100 Telework Pioneers."
The Smart Work Management Survey has been conducted by the Nikkei Inc. since 2017 and targets listed and leading unlisted companies nationwide, with companies rated on a five-star scale based on three elements: human resource utilization, human resource investment, and technology utilization. Our company was awarded 3.5 stars in the "Nikkei Sustainable Comprehensive Survey: Smart Work Management," which selects leading companies that aim to maximize corporate value by making the most of their human resources and accelerating human resource investment to create new innovation, improve productivity, and maximize corporate value.
"DX Certified Businesses" are businesses that are certified by the government as complying with the basic requirements of the "Digital Governance Code" based on the Act on Promotion of Information Processing, and our company was certified in June 2023. With a view to obtaining the "DX Brand" designation, which recognizes companies with superior track records, we will promote transformation (DX) not only in business efficiency and process improvements, but also in services, business models, and corporate culture and climate, with the aim of urban and community development using digital technology.