Global Stakeholder Engagement Program

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Date: 12th September 2018 at AP Tokyo Marunouchi Nippon Seimei Marunouchi Garden Tower
Host: Caux Round Table Japan
Introduction
Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director of CRT Japan, first
introduced the organization and the work it does inJapan and abroad. Then, he presented that since 2012,
CRT Japan has held annual stakeholder program inTokyo that Japanese businesses, NGO/NPO, social
businesses and subjective experts participated in.
And, in response to the increasing concern from thesociety on supply chain practices of Japanesecompanies, it has scaled up its program to hold in

Participants of the Program

Thailand in 2016, in Thailand, Malaysia, and Myanmar in 2017, and in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia
in 2018. In addition, CRT Japan conducted a dialogue with Japanese businesses and small-scale palm oil
farmers in Malaysia and Indonesia. Next, Minoru Matsuzaki from CRT Japan reported on the Stakeholder
Engagement Program in Japan. In the program, NGO/NPO gave the corporate participants a lecture on humanrights issues in supply chains in Asia, human rights issues particular to Japan, and trends of institutional
investors in Japan. Then, given the concerns raised by them, the corporate participants identified the sector
specific human rights issues. Akiko Sato from CRT Japan reported on the Stakeholder Engagement Programin Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The program in Thailand focused on the theme of human trafficking.
The programs in Malaysia and Indonesia focused on the theme of palm oil. She shared the identified issues
through these programs. Lastly, Hiroshi Ishida from CRT Japan shared the plan for next year that CRT
Japan would continue to provide workshops just like the dialogue with small-scale palm farmers inMalaysia. Then, the participants and the experts conducted the discussion to exchange their views. The
following shows the main points of the discussion.
Comments from the global experts•

This program can be highly appreciated in the point that the human rights issues were discussed andidentified from the perspectives of companies and stakeholders. In addition, this program shouldcontinue to be implemented. It was the future expectation that this program would provide a place todiscuss directly with the rights-holders such as immigrant workers in Japan and workers in factories.
Also, industry groups and western companies could be invited to this program for Japanese companies
to learn business cases and strengthen their efforts to promote human rights.

•It was important to continually raise awareness about business and human rights within the company.
Particularly in promoting human rights initiatives within the company, gaining understanding from top
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management was indispensable. Therefore, it was important to help top management raise theirawareness about human rights issues.
Achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) was to ensure "human rights of all people".

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Therefore, companies should grasp the relevance of business activities and human rights, and work toachieve sustainable development goals by not only maximizing their positive impact but also
minimizing their negative impact.

•Recent year, various human rights problems were raising in Vietnam and Myanmar where Japanesecompanies operated. It was important for Japanese companies to expand the scope of human rights
impact assessment to such countries and implement the assessment.

•Although there was a tendency to discuss focusing on development of human rights policy andimplementation of impact assessment with response to the UK Modern Slavery Act, discussion should
be more on development and implementation of grievance mechanisms. Also, it was important to learn
through other business cases of how other companies were working on this.

•Based on what the corporate participants learned through this program, Japanese companies wereexpected to work to identify their salient human rights issues, utilize what they learned for their humanrights initiatives, engage with their stakeholders, and report outcomes to the stakeholders withtransparency. These Japanese companies were expected to be leading companies, and communicate
their work globally.

•Japanese companies should have a performance measurement and benchmarking method tocontinuously track the progress of their human rights initiatives at their companies and suppliers.

•How would Japanese companies implement stakeholder engagement programs by including
stakeholders in Thailand? How would Japanese companies implement CSR projects in Thailand? It
was important for them to learn, share and practice these things in Thailand.

Experts：•William RookRegional Manager, Middle East, Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)•Tulika Bansal
Senior Adviser, Human Rights and Development, The Danish Institute for Human Rights•Livio Sarandrea
Manager and Chief Adviser of Regional Program on Business and Rights
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub•

Dr. James Allan
Head of Consulting, EMEA & APAC, Verisk Maplecroft•Sompong Strakaew
Founder/Executive Director, Labour Rights Promotion NetworkParticipants：•Toshihiko Hoshino
Senior Expert, CSR Group, Corporate Planning Div., FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation
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•Mari Kojima
Manager, CSR Group, Corporate Planning Div., FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation
Junji Kokubo

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Group Manager, Environment Integrity Group, Sustainability Strategy Department,
Shiseido Company, Limited•

Kazumi Azuma
Manager, Environment Integrity Group, Sustainability Strategy Department,
Shiseido Company, Limited•Reiko IshimuraManager, Environment Group, Corporate Social Responsibility Division, Unicharm Corporation,•Mio Sumida
CSV Group Corporate Social Responsibility Division, Unicharm Corporation,•Koichi KawaharaManager, Business Ethics Group, Corporate Social Responsibility Dept.,
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., LTD.

•Emiko MoriSenior Specialist, Business Ethics Group, Corporate Social Responsibility Dept.,
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., LTD.

•Yasushi KatoBusiness Ethics Group, Corporate Social Responsibility Dept., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., LTD.

•Kiyoyuki Yamaguchi
General Manager, CSR Promotion Department, MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

•Mihoko YamamotoGeneral Manager, CSR Promotion Department, MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

•Ayako Yawata
Leader, Social Contribution Promotion Office, CSR Promotion Department,MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

Secretariat：•Hiroshi Ishida, Executive Director, Caux Round Table Japan•Minoru Matsuzaki, Nippon CSR Consortium, Caux Round Table Japan•Hiroki Wada, Nippon CSR Consortium, Caux Round Table Japan•Akiko Sato, Coordinator, Caux Round Table Japan

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