Respect for Human Rights

Kitamura Holdings is committed to its mission of “Reflecting Your Time and Living with Your Heart.” Our Group’s economic activities are aimed at pursuing happiness through a fulfilling photographic lifestyle, and these activities are aligned with the SDGs, ideals to be achieved on a global scale. In addition to including “Promotion of diversity and inclusion” as one of our material issues, we uphold internationally recognized human rights principles and have established a code of conduct that states, “We respect the fundamental human rights of all people in all aspects of our corporate activities, and will not, for any reason, engage in discrimination or conduct that offends individual dignity.”

Human Rights Policy（PDF：50KB）

Human Rights Due Diligence

To prevent and mitigate adverse impacts on human rights, we identify and evaluate human rights risks and implement corrective measures to address any human rights issues which occur. We will continue to monitor the measures we have implemented, to regularly evaluate their effectiveness, to disclose information appropriately, and to educate and train related parties.

＜Identifying and evaluating human rights risks＞

1.Assessing the status of human rights in our business activities

We perform overall assessments of our value chain processes and identify the risks of human rights issues on an individual stakeholder basis.

2.Identifying and evaluating human rights risks

Together with our business divisions and human resource divisions, we identify human rights issues and specific concerns for each stakeholder, and we evaluate them from the perspectives of severity and likelihood. We then create a risk evaluation map.

3.Risk evaluation results and subsequent initiatives

We use our risk evaluation map to address human rights issues, prioritizing high severity issues with high levels of likelihood.