SX Brands 2026 and SX Nominated Companies 2026 Selected

1．Outline of SX Brands

SX is an initiative in which companies strive to improve long-term and sustainable corporate value by synchronizing the sustainability of society with their own while carrying out the necessary management and business reforms to achieve such synchronization.

METI and the TSE have started a project to select SX Brands, a group of progressive companies that enhance their ability to generate growth capital in a sustainable manner through SX with the aim of improving corporate value.

Publicizing SX Brands will help disseminate the advanced initiatives for SX management of the outstanding companies among a wide range of other Japanese companies and further promote dialogues by the companies and their engagement with investors inside and outside Japan. This is expected to result in increased investment in Japan and a higher valuation of Japanese companies in capital markets.

2．Successful companies selected as SX Brands 2026

From October 6 to November 28, 2025, METI and the TSE opened a call for TSE-listed companies to apply to become SX Brands 2026. Fifteen companies were selected as below from among the applicants as SX Brands 2026 based on the results of the examination conducted by the SX Brand Evaluation Committee.

On Monday, May 11, Tuesday, May 12, and Thursday, May 15, the Government of Japan (MOFA, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Nuclear Regulation Authority, the Ministry of Environment and the Fisheries Agency), Fukushima Prefecture and TEPCO (1) provided the IAEA Task Force with the information on the overview and the results of the monitoring conducted on the premises of TEPCO’s FDNPS and the sea area monitoring related to the discharge of ALPS treated water into the sea, and (2) explained the consistency of the monitoring with the international safety standards followed by a discussion with the IAEA Task Force.

Sector	Code	Company Name
Other products	7936	ASICS Corporation
Foods	2802	Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Pharmaceutical	4523	Eisai Co., Ltd.
Non-ferrous metals	5805	SWCC Corporation
Information and communications	9434	SoftBank Corp.
Pharmaceutical	4568	Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.
Electric appliances	6762	TDK Corporation
Chemicals	4186	Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Insurance	8766	Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.
Electric power and gas	9531	Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
Foods	2871	Nichirei Corporation
Electric appliances	6501	Hitachi, Ltd.
Electric appliances	6981	Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Banks	8308	Resona Holdings Inc.
Chemicals	4004	Resonac Holdings Corporatio

3．SX Nominated Companies 2026

From among the applicants not selected as SX Brands 2026, the following two companies have been newly selected this year as SX Nominated Companies for their outstanding efforts deserving of special attention.

Sector	Code	Company Name
Electric appliances	285A	Kioxia Holdings Corporation
Warehousing & harbor transportation services9302	9302	MITSUI-SOKO HOLDINGS Co., Ltd

4．SX Brands 2026 Report

METI and the TSE aim to disseminate the advanced initiatives for SX of the outstanding companies among a wide range of other Japanese companies and further promote dialogues of the companies and their engagement with investors inside and outside Japan. The SX Brands 2026 Report introduces the selected companies’ initiatives for this purpose.

• SX Brands 2026 Report(PDF:10,782KB)

5．SX Brands 2026 Award Ceremony

The SX Brands 2026 Awards Ceremony will be held on June 1, 2026. For details, please refer to the link below (in Japanese).

• SX Brands 2026 Award Ceremony (in Japanese)

Related Links

• SX Brands
• Ito Review 3.0 (Ito Review SX Edition)(PDF:3,762KB)
• Guidance for Integrated Corporate Disclosure and Company-Investor Dialogue for Collaborative Value Creation 2.0(PDF:2,519KB)
• Tokyo Stock Exchange Press Release

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