Nadeshiko Brands Selected for FY2022

1. Outline of the Nadeshiko Brands

The Nadeshiko Brands initiative aims to introduce certain TSE-listed enterprises that are outstanding in terms of encouraging women's empowerment in the workplace as attractive stocks to investors who place emphasis on improving corporate value in the medium- and long-term, thereby further raising investors' interest in such enterprises and accelerating the encouragement of women's empowerment in outstanding enterprises.

METI and the TSE assessed 312 TSE-listed enterprises that responded to the survey based on quantitative data regarding women's empowerment and information they provided regarding the commitment of their management to encouraging women's empowerment in the enterprise, their positioning of women's success as part of their business strategy, their level of information disclosure, and other factors. The most outstanding enterprise in each industry was then selected to be a Nadeshiko Brands, for a total of 15 enterprises. This year marks the 11th round of the Nadeshiko Brands, and it has been updated to promote the disclosure of information related to efforts to encourage women’s success, in addition to selecting enterprises that encourage women's empowerment as part of their business strategy. This is in consideration of discussions in recent years on how non-financial information (e.g., information on human capital) should be disclosed.
This year, in addition to a quantitative questionnaire on their situation surrounding women's empowerment, enterprises completed a qualitative questionnaire including individual stories of how they positioned encouraging women's empowerment as part of their business strategy and how their efforts increased their corporate value. They were then assessed based on both quantitative and qualitative data.

2. Enterprises Selected as Nadeshiko Brands

The following enterprises were selected as the FY2022 Nadeshiko Brands.
Enterprises selected as Nadeshiko Brands in past fiscal years are shown with a solid dot (●), while those selected as Semi-Nadeshiko in past fiscal years are shown with a white dot (〇).
(Note 1) The Semi-Nadeshiko were high-scoring enterprises in past surveys that were ranked within the top 15% or higher of all candidate enterprises, regardless of industry category, but were not selected as Nadeshiko Brands. No Semi-Nadeshiko were selected for FY2022.

Name of industry type	Securities code	Name of selected enterprise	Selected year (Fiscal Year)
			2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
FOODS	2802	Ajinomoto Co., Inc.						●	●	○	○	●
ENERGY RESOURCES	5019	Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd.
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS	5938	LIXIL Corporation		●	●		○	●	●	●	●
RAW MATERIALS & CHEMICALS	4911	Shiseido Company, Limited								○	●	●
PHARMACEUTICAL	4578	Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd.							○	●
AUTOMOBILES & TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT	7259	AISIN CORPORATION								○	●	●
STEEL & NONFERROUS METALS	5801	Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.						●		●
MACHINERY	6301	Komatsu Ltd.			●	●	●	●
IT & SERVICES, OTHERS	2130	Members Co., Ltd.						●
ELECTRIC POWER & GAS	9531	TOKYO GAS CO.,LTD					●	●	●	●	●
TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS	9104	Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.									●	●
COMMERCIAL & WHOLESALE TRADE	2768	Sojitz Corporation					●	●	●	●	●	●
RETAIL TRADE	8252	MARUI GROUP CO., LTD.						●	●	●	●	●
FINANCIALS (EX BANKS)	8630	Sompo Holdings, Inc.						●	●	●	●	○
REAL ESTATE	8801	Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.										●

3. FY2022 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands and other released materials

The following four materials related to the Nadeshiko Brands will be published on the METI website.
 

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry website:Nadeshiko Brands: Enterprises Outstanding in Terms of Encouraging Women's Empowerment in the Workplace 
FY2022 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands
 

Details of the materials

Report on the Nadeshiko Brands

Project overview and the survey results and situation regarding selection for this fiscal year

List of quantitative data on Nadeshiko Brands enterprises and respondent enterprises (compiled for the first time)

List of quantitative data for some items in the quantitative questionnaire

List of case studies on Nadeshiko Brands enterprises (compiled for the first time)

Qualitative questionnaires for Nadeshiko Brands enterprises

Noteworthy Enterprises

A collection of best practices that strategically address the following two points.

1. Issues related to encouraging women's empowerment in technical fields at the time of recruitment, assignment, training, and other situations, and efforts to address them (e.g., training, improvement of environment, PR activities)
2. Concrete examples of Femtech and efforts to resolve health issues unique to female employees and create environments to facilitate women's empowerment

Division in Charge

Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau