Companies Selected as FY2025 Nadeshiko Brands and Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting

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1. Outline of the Nadeshiko Brands and the Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting

The Nadeshiko Brands is an initiative that aims to introduce certain TSE-listed companies that are outstanding in terms of encouraging women’s empowerment in the workplace as attractive stocks to investors who place an emphasis on improving corporate value in the medium- and long-term, thereby further enhancing investors’ interest in such companies and accelerating efforts for women’s empowerment in the workplace by companies.

To select outstanding companies, METI conducted the Survey on Companies Encouraging Women’s Empowerment in the Workplace to ascertain the current situation of companies’ efforts for women’s empowerment in the workplace. Based on the responses sent from the target companies, METI assessed them and selected the outstanding companies.

METI and the TSE believe it is essential for companies to promote both support for consistent career development from recruitment to promotion and support for dual careers and co-parenting in order to advance women’s empowerment in the workplace and thus contribute to enhancing corporate value. Based on this recognition, in the FY2025 Nadeshiko Brands program, METI and the TSE selected companies that promote these efforts as Nadeshiko Brands.

In addition, METI and the TSE selected outstanding companies for their efforts related to support for dual careers and co-parenting as Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting.

2. Companies selected as the FY2025 Nadeshiko Brands and Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting

The companies selected as the FY2025 Nadeshiko Brands and Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting are as follows.

3. FY2025 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands and other released materials

The following five materials related to the FY2025 Nadeshiko Brands are published on the METI website.

• METI: Nadeshiko Brands: Companies Outstanding in Terms of Encouraging Women’s Success in the Workplace (in Japanese)

Note: For the latest information, visit here.

Major contents of the materials

FY2025 Report on the Nadeshiko Brands

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

Collection of case examples of efforts by the selected companies

• Collection of case examples of efforts by the selected companies as the FY2025 Nadeshiko Brands (based on the information in the application forms filed by the companies)
• Collection of case examples of efforts by the selected companies as the FY2025 Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting

Noteworthy Companies

Collection of best practices of companies that distinctively address the following three points:

1. In the efforts to promote the active engagement of diverse talent, indicators particularly emphasized by your company, reasons for selecting them, and an overview of initiatives to achieve them
2. Efforts for correcting the wage gap between men and women and the outcomes obtained from the efforts
3. Overview of efforts for solving female employees’ health issues and the outcomes obtained from the efforts (including quantitative results)

List of quantitative data on the selected companies and respondent companies

List of the quantitative data

Note: This list only shows the questionnaire items that were scheduled to be published in advance and the respondent companies that have agreed to be published.

Self-evaluation sheets for companies other than the respondents to the survey

Companies can fill in this checklist with their own figures regarding some of the questionnaire items in the survey sheet so as to compare their data with those of all respondent companies and the companies selected as Nadeshiko Brands.

Related Link

• TSE: Announcement of the FY2025 Nadeshiko Brands and Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting (in Japanese)

Division in Charge

Economic and Social Policy Office, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau