Toyota Tsusho has positioned its corporate philosophy of "Living and prospering together with people, society, and the planet to be a value-generating corporation that contributes to the creation of prosperous societies" as its highest unchanging concept, which should be handed down through the generations. The company has enhanced its corporate value by engaging in environment-friendly businesses and developing human resources who are valuable to and contribute to society.
The world today is facing such problems as abnormal weather related to climate change, forest destruction, resource exhaustion, and human rights issues. When conducting business activities, the environment and society do not simply need to be "considered," rather, they are "prerequisites" for engaging in business, essentially making them targets for our business today. For companies, environmental and social issues are both risks and opportunities. In this context, Toyota Tsusho is developing its conventional corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and enhancing its initiatives aimed at realizing a sustainable society with a long-term perspective based on ESG viewpoints.
For Toyota Tsusho, sustainability is synonymous with good management. In striving toward the manifestation of our corporate philosophy, our sustainability management is defined as our continuous and sustainable growth, enhancing value created for society and the environment, and value created by Toyota Tsusho with its customers.
While engaging in sustainable management, Toyota Tsusho identified Key Sustainability Issues (Materiality*) that it will address with priority. Focusing on these six material issues, we are tackling various social issues to achieve our corporate philosophy by pursuing our Global Vision to "Be the Right ONE" and become a one-and-only, essential presence.
As shown in the diagram below, in Toyota Tsusho's sustainability management promotion structure, the president & CEO (Chairperson) convenes the Sustainability Committee under the supervision of the Board of Directors meeting, and reports the discussions and decisions of the committee to the Board of Directors meeting. In addition, members of the Board have abundant competence and experience in ESG-related issues, and a system is in place to ensure appropriate supervision by the Board of Directors meeting. Furthermore, each relevant meeting body*1 discusses specific themes related to sustainability, and in particular, climate change is discussed at the Carbon Neutrality Promotion Meeting, which is chaired by the president & CEO and meets monthly to discuss strategies for the transition to a decarbonized society.
Under the supervision of the CSO (Hiroshi Tominaga, member of the Board), who is the officer in charge of sustainability, the Sustainability Management Group of the Corporate Planning Department serves as the secretariat and implements sustainability promotion measures in cooperation with each sales division, Administrative Unit, and group company.
The planning department of each sales division appoints a staff member responsible for sustainability who collaborates as appropriate with the Sustainability Management Group. In April 2021, we established the Sustainability Administrative Unit Subcommittee to strengthen cooperation among related departments in the Administrative Unit. The subcommittee meets once every two months to share information and discuss various issues at the General Manager level and take prompt action.
Toyota Tsusho Corporation holds meetings of the Sustainability Committee once a year.
The Committee is chaired by the President, with the Vice President, the CSO, the CFO, and other executives responsible for corporate functions in attendance. In addition, external directors and external auditors participate as observers.
At the Committee meetings, the Company deliberates and determines important matters related to sustainability, including policies and initiatives. The Committee also discusses and decides the progress of sustainability initiatives and key issues based on changes in the external environment and business conditions.
At the meeting held in December 2025, the Committee discussed the following key agenda items. The content of these discussions was reported to the Board of Directors meeting in January 2026.
In addition, the Sustainability Subcommittee, consisting of responsible managers from relevant corporate departments, is held once every two months. Through this subcommittee, the Company steadily advances responses to sustainability issues, including matters discussed and decided at the Sustainability Committee.
At Toyota Tsusho, management communicates policies with a sense of storytelling so that employees can feel that they are contributing to sustainability through their own work. In addition, "Contribution to Communities, Society, and the Future" is reflected in personnel evaluations to encourage changes in awareness and behavior.
In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025, we established the "Carbon Neutral Award" in addition to the existing recognition system. Furthermore, to raise understanding and awareness, we promoted cross-departmental dialogue, video training, and briefing sessions on themes such as human rights due diligence and compliance.
Toyota Tsusho Corporation established the Global Code of Conduct & Ethics (COCE) in July 2016, following a resolution by the Board of Directors in April of the same year, as a concrete and easy-to-understand expression of the Behavioral Guidelines that supports the Corporate Philosophy. The COCE was formulated by pooling the wisdom of Group employees in Japan and overseas. To ensure that the COCE is well-known and ingrained throughout the entire Group, we have built a global network. Together with the global members of this network, we continuously carry out various awareness activities, including the distribution of the President's COCE message, the publication of the COCE booklet in 23 different languages, the annual COCE pledge activities that we conduct every year, and training sessions for executives and employees at different levels. By ensuring that every executives and employee of the Toyota Tsusho Group around the world thoroughly understands and practices the COCE, the Group's common code of conduct, we seek to realize our Corporate Philosophy, Mission and Global Vision.
The safety and health of all of our members is the foundation of our corporate activities.
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Compliance is a must in all of our corporate activities. A single non-compliant act may severely harm and damage our reputation and corporate value.
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A single violation of any anti-corruption, anti-trust and competition law or trade law and regulation may lead to severe penalties, as well as criminal charges and unrecoverable reputational damage to both the individual and the company.
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As a member of a publicly listed company, the accuracy of our financial information is essential both for us and for our stakeholders.
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As a good corporate citizen, we commit to honesty, integrity, and transparency beyond the laws and rules. By this commitment, we believe that trust will be fostered with all stakeholders and will serve as the foundation of our corporate activities.
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We deeply believe that the key to our sustainable success is harmonizing and developing together with the people, the society and the earth.
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Harmonizing our corporate activities with the environment is rooted deeply in our fundamental philosophy.
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To grow in a sustainable way and contribute to the changing society, it is essential for us to commit to creating new ideas and value for the society and continuously improve our corporate activities.
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Respecting people is rooted deeply in our fundamental philosophy. We have no tolerance for any human rights abuses.
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We believe that diversity and inclusion are the source of innovation and growth. Our diversity enables us to leverage different perspectives in order to respond to the increasing dynamics of the business environment and customer needs worldwide.
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Booklet of Global Code of Conduct & Ethics(COCE)
The booklet provides behavioral guidelines regarding the 10 creeds of the Global Code of Conduct & Ethics (COCE) in greater detail.
