Under the corporate mission of “Materials Innovation - We create value through materials to enrich society, people and the environment,” JSR Group aims to build and maintain good relations with all of our stakeholders and become a trusted and indispensable corporate citizen. To this end, the Group will contribute to the realization of a sustainable global environment and society by creating value through its corporate activity and based on this corporate mission.

Beginning with this report, JSR Group is disclosing our sustainability KPIs (“KPIs”). We chose to do this to help our stakeholders understand the initiatives we are taking to solve sustainability issues and the progress we are making.
We started the process of establishing KPIs in June 2021. For each material issue of JSR Group, we set an objective, a KPI, a goal, and a scope. We based these on social trends and discussions with concerned parties within the Group. The Board of Directors approved the KPIs in December 2021, and in May 2022, we announced them publicly. We will continue our sustainability initiatives going forward as we strive to reach the goals we outlined.

In continuation of the previous year, we edited the report while being impacted by the spread of COVID-19.

The transfer of the Elastomers Business, which we announced in May 2021, was completed as planned on April 1, 2022. That makes FY2022 the first year of a new JSR built primarily around the Digital Solutions Business and Life Sciences Business. Although the Elastomers Business will no longer be in the scope of our reporting from FY2022, the report of FY2021 initiatives, presented here, still includes the Elastomers Business within its scope. Readers should be aware that the way results are reported may be confusing at times because of this period of transition.

This time, we have added a new feature, entitled “JSR Sustainability at a Glance,” that describes JSR Group’s sustainability initiatives simply for stakeholders, students, and general readers. We have also included a message from the officer in charge of sustainability promotion as well as an account of material issues arranged in terms of ESG (environment, social, governance) to assist the reader in comprehending sustainability as a whole at JSR. We also present related numerical data in the ESG Data section. Please note that we will not publish a Highlight Version.

• United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
• Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005 / Environmental Reporting Guidelines 2012, Ministry of the Environment
• Environmental Accounting Guidelines for Chemical Companies, Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA)
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards

JSR Group: 68 companies

• JSR:
  Head Office, Yokkaichi Plant, Chiba Plant, Kashima Plant, Yokkaichi Research Center, Tsukuba Research Laboratories, JSR-Keio University Medical and Chemical Innovation Center, JSR Bioscience and informatics R&D center (JSR BiRD), Nagoya Branch, Taiwan Branch
• Group Companies:
  23 domestic Group companies, 44 overseas Group companies
  (Current as of March 31, 2022)

JSR Group: 22 companies

• JSR:
  Head Office, Yokkaichi Plant, Chiba Plant, Kashima Plant, Yokkaichi Research Laboratories, Tsukuba Research Laboratories, JSR Bioscience and informatics R&D center (JSR BiRD), Nagoya Branch
• Group Companies:
  9 domestic Group companies, 12 overseas Group companies^*
  (Current as of March 31, 2022)

* See “ESG Data” for information on Group businesses covered by RC data

• ESG Data (PDF: 344KB)