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Respect for human rights

Respect for the Human Rights of All

Mabuchi Motor advocates “Through our corporate activities we protect our planet’s ecosystem and the health of its inhabitants” in its Management Markers and “Be fair and just to others, and support and cooperate with fellow employees” in its Corporate Missions. On this basis, we respect the basic rights of our employees, including employees at our overseas facilities, and are actively working to create a workplace where every employee can play an active part in a healthy and safe manner.

Mabuchi Motor Human Rights Policy

We have established the “Mabuchi Motor Human Rights Policy” as a guideline to further promote Group-wide efforts to respect human rights and fulfill our responsibilities.

In accordance with the Mabuchi Motor Human Rights Policy, we respect the fundamental human rights, diverse values, individuality, and privacy of all people affected by our business activities, and do not tolerate discriminatory language or behavior, acts of violence, power harassment, sexual harassment, bullying, or other acts that disregard the individuality of any person with regard to race, religion, gender, nationality, physical disability, age, or other factors. We do not tolerate forced labor or child labor, including slavery and human trafficking.

Important human rights issues

Mabuchi Motor considers the following human rights issues to be of particular importance and is working to address them.

  • Prohibition of forced labor and child labor
  • Prohibition of discrimination and inhumane treatment
  • Ensuring proper working conditions
  • Respect for freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining

Human Rights Due Diligence

In accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we will establish a human rights due diligence framework and implement it continuously in order to fulfill our responsibility to respect human rights.

1)Human Rights Risk Assessment

  1. Identification of Human Rights Infringement Risks

    We identified human rights risks for stakeholders such as employees and suppliers, taking into account sector risks, product risks, and regional risks.

    Type of human rights risk Examples of potential
    adverse impacts
    Examples of potential
    risk cases
    Forced labor
    1. Violation of the fundamental human right to work of one’s own free will and to freely choose one’s employment
    1. Debt bondage
    2. Forced overtime work
    3. Restrictions on freedom of movement
    4. Restrictions on resignation/termination of employment
    Child labor
    1. Adverse effects on children’s intellectual, physical, social, and moral development
    1. Employment of children below the legally defined minimum working age
    Discrimination
    1. Hindering workers’ growth and career development and negatively affecting productivity by treating individuals differently or disadvantageously based on characteristics unrelated to their abilities or inherent job requirements
    1. Discrimination in hiring, training, promotion, etc. based on specific attributes (race, ethnicity, gender, language, religion, etc.)
    2. Gender pay gap
    3. Failure to achieve equal pay for equal work
    Insufficient wages
    / non-payment
    / living wage
    1. Deterioration in quality of life due to failure to pay wages necessary for workers and their families to live
    1. Non-payment; delayed payment
    2. Failure to ensure minimum wage
    Excessive or unjust
    working hours
    1. Increased risk of injury, fatigue, and stress
    1. Overtime beyond statutory limits
    2. Restrictions on legally mandated breaks and leave
    Occupational safety and health
    1. Physical and mental adverse impacts on people in relation to work
    1. Lack of opportunities for education/training on occupational safety and health
    Freedom of association and
    collective bargaining
    1. Violation of the right of workers to establish and join organizations freely and voluntarily
    1. Restrictions on joining labor unions or other workplace organizations
    Right to privacy
    1. Breaches of confidential information and customers’ personal data
    1. Lack of opportunities for education/training on information security and personal data protection
    Right of access to remedy
    1. When a company causes adverse human rights impacts, victims may be unable to obtain effective remedy
    1. Lack of grievance/complaints handling mechanism

     

  2. Questionnaire Survey
    1. Survey within the Company
      1. 2024

        At headquarters, we evaluated the status of legal compliance awareness and the development of systems related to various human rights issues at 23 sales and production bases (including headquarters and our bases).

      2. 2025

        We conducted a survey and evaluation of 23 sales and production bases (including headquarters and our bases), based on our human rights policy, covering the above-identified human rights risks across the processes of “recruitment, contracting, labor evaluation, and training/education.”
        For items judged to require action, we will prioritize and proceed with responses in 2026.

    2. Survey of Business Partners

      To assess human rights risks in our supply chain, we conducted a questionnaire survey of business partners who supply materials to us, referencing internationally recognized human rights standards. Based on self-assessments of legal compliance awareness and the status of system development for various human rights issues, we estimated the likelihood of occurrence and, in conjunction with the severity of each human rights issue, identified items with high priority for risk mitigation initiatives.
      In 2024, we surveyed business partners with transaction records in 2023, achieving a 94% response rate. In 2025, we surveyed business partners with transaction records in 2024 who had not transacted with us in 2023 (and were therefore outside the survey scope at that time), as well as new business partners added in 2024, achieving an 89% response rate. The cumulative response rate to date is 93%.

      2024 2025 Cumulative
      Survey implementation rate 100% 100% 100%
      Response rate 94% 89% 93%

    3. Survey of Staffing Agencies and Headquarters Service Contractors

      In 2025, we conducted the same survey as for business partners for: (i) major staffing agencies used by headquarters (among those providing a large number of dispatched workers), and (ii) contractors for services such as employee cafeteria operations and building management. We identified items with high priority for risk mitigation initiatives. The response rate was 100%.

2)Risk Mitigation Initiatives

-Business Partners, Staffing Agencies, and Headquarters Service Contractors
To ensure early action in addressing human rights risks in which companies may be involved, establishing a remedy contact point is important. We determined it to be a risk that a certain number of companies do not have such a contact point. For business partners that answered that they “do not have a system for reporting or consulting when they become aware of risk information involving their company or when they actually suffer an infringement,” we confirmed details and requested corrective action. In both 2024 and 2025, one company was subject to corrective action, and we confirmed completion of corrective measures in each case.

3)Monitoring

We will continue to conduct periodic fact-finding surveys and strive to understand whether human rights issues arise as a result of our business activities.

4)Disclosure

We will continue to disclose our activities related to human rights on our website and in our integrated report, among other channel

Correction and Remediation

Mabuchi Motor will address through appropriate procedures when it becomes clear that our business activities have a negative impact on human rights. In addition, we have established a "Code of Ethics Hotline" for reporting and consultation on compliance issues, including human rights. The Code of Ethics Hotline is anonymous and confidential, and covers not only our employees but also some of our business partners.

Signed the "United Nations Global Compact"

In January 2021, we has endorsed and signed the United Nations Global Compact proposed by the United Nations.

The United Nations Global Compact calls on companies and organizations to act in a sound and responsible manner in order to achieve sustainable growth, based on the commitment of top corporate executives themselves to endorse ten principles related to the protection of human rights, the elimination of unfair labor practices, environmental responsibility, and anti-corruption.

We have established our Sustainability Policy in order to put into practice our Management Principle of "Contributing to International Society and Continuously Increasing Our Contribution." We view the United Nations SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) as goals that will enable us to grow economically while respecting people, and we will strive for further growth together with our customers, business partners, employees, and other stakeholders to achieve them.

human rights Principle 1 : Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights.
Principle 2 : Businesses should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Labor Principle 3 : Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining.
Principle 4 : Businesses should uphold the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour.
Principle 5 : Businesses should uphold the effective abolition of child labour.
Principle 6 : Businesses should uphold the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
environment Principle 7 : Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges.
Principle 8 : Businesses should undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility.
Principle 9 : Businesses should encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies
Anti-corruption Principle 10 : Businesses should encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies