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The Group is promoting CSR management under its three-year medium-term management plan, which began in 2007. We recognize that initiatives to ensure good compliance, internal controls, risk management, quality control, environmental protection, and health and safety are crucial for gaining the trust of society and for ensuring our growth.

The Group has established three basic objectives as guideline for CSR that serve as the foundations of its management.

Basic Objectives
We shall establish and carry out CSR management as a world-class manufacturer of a comprehensive range of automation equipment.

1. The Group will strengthen its corporate structure through the combined initiatives of the Headquarters, in-house companies and Group companies in CSR fields that are paramount to its survival and success. This entails working actively to promote quality, environmental preservation and safety through compliance practices throughout our organization in accordance with related laws and ordinances, further gaining the trust of the communities where we work.
2. We will hone and enhance our preparedness for dealing with any risks facing the Group and establish tangible response mechanisms for dealing with emergencies as they occur so that we will not lose the trust of the communities around us or any of our enterprise value.
3. Through its businesses, the Group will establish and fulfill goals for aggressively promoting CSR initiatives that contribute to society and improve the environment and activities that help the community and will seek to consistently increase enterprise value. We will also convey information concerning these initiatives to our stakeholders.

In line with the basic objectives of the three-year medium-term management plan, the Group has divided CSR activities into basic and more proactive initiatives and has identified six areas of focus. In each of these six areas, the Group is geared toward promoting CSR activities that help the community as well as enhance its business operations. We will promote CSR practices through initiatives in each of these areas.

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The Group’s CSR Promotion Committee was established to enact initiatives over a broad range of fields and oversee PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycles. The committee is comprised of senior managers in charge of promoting CSR at individual Group companies and meets once every two months. CSR initiative planning, execution, appraisal and reporting are conducted principally by the committee.

<CSR Promotion Framework>

Management of Compliance Risks

1. Promoting thorough Compliance
   In commemoration of the Company’s 100th anniversary, the Group is promoting training sessions for the revised Business Conduct Guidelines at all Group workplaces conveying messages from the president in Corporate Ethics Awareness Month, issuing special CSR reports in internal publications and carrying out other activities to thoroughly convey the importance of adhering to good corporate ethics and obeying laws and ordinances.
2. Strengthening Legal Response
   The Group has been focusing on developing the tangible means to educate, explain and effectively respond to important legislations and regulations as a priority in its activities.
3. Building Companywide Internal Risk Management System
   The Group is strengthening measures for predicting, appraising and preventing risks and limiting potential damages from exposure to the risks faced by the Group that may result from changes in its business environment.

Internal Control of Financial Data

To prepare for the April 2008 implementation of Article 24.4.4 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (relating to internal controls for company financial reporting, also known as J-SOX), in March 2007 a Groupwide project was established to ensure J-SOX compliance for internal control is achieved, centered on the activities of a section in the Internal control Conduct Department. In addition, the Group has pushed forward with preparations for the documentation of business processes and the creation of appropriate management systems.

Initiatives in Other Areas

1. For personnel and workplace safety, Groupwide activities are taking place with the goal of creating healthy and safe workplaces.
2. In the areas of quality, product liability and the environment, the Group continues to strengthen its policies for promoting quality and product liability response and has established goals and policies for the Group to further reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
3. For contributing to communities, the Group fosters environmental protection through several means and, under its new basic policies established for social contribution, promotes activities to aid local communities.

Management of Compliance Risks

1. Promoting thorough Compliance
   Future policies will focus on compliance and monitoring over a wide range of Group managers and employees to instill awareness of compliance issues and gauge important themes.
2. Strengthening Legal Responses and Risk Management The Group will develop more extensive mechanisms for dealing with laws. Also, key measures targeting specific risks will be subject to annual management-level reviews, and the Group as a whole will strive to develop countermeasures most appropriate to each risk.

Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Founded on the preparations it completed prior to April 2008, the Group will continue to focus its energies on meeting J-SOX requirements reporting by evaluating the current status of internal control and by implementing continuous improvements relating to “Reliability of Financial Reporting.”

Other Areas for Initiatives

The Group will clarify objectives and implementation plans for initiatives in various fields based on the achievements seen in fiscal 2007 and under the guidance of the CSR Promotion Committee, will continue to work to accomplish the plans.

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