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The Marubeni Group has established the following Marubeni Group Health Declaration based on the Marubeni Group Basic Policy on Occupational Health and Safety.
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Employees are a vital asset for the Marubeni Group, and their health is of paramount importance. Therefore, the Marubeni Group considers the maintenance and improvement of the health of its employees to be a top management priority. The Marubeni Group supports employees’ success by working to create an environment where each individual can autonomously and proactively take steps to maintain and promote his or her health. These efforts will lead to the growth of the Marubeni Group.
Masayuki OmotoDirector, Member of the Board,Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO
To put our Marubeni Group Health Declaration into practice, we will manage the progress of our health and productivity management by using indicators formulated in the map of health and productivity management strategy.
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Marubeni has established the “Marubeni Health Promotion Structure” with the President & CEO as Chief Health Management Officer. Under the responsibility of the Health Management Promotion Officer (director in charge of the Human Resources & General Affairs Department), this system promotes health and productivity management through the coordination of four groups: occupational physicians (Company Medical Clinics), the Health Insurance Association, the Human Resources & General Affairs Department, and Health and Productivity Management Promotion Officers selected from among the Company’s employees. Representatives of these groups gather at a Health Management Promotion Meeting to review health management measures and discuss future initiatives. The Health Management Promotion Committee, which is made up of representatives from occupational physicians (Company Medical Clinics), the Health Insurance Association, and the Human Resources & General Affairs Department, meets twice a year to discuss Health Insurance Association’s health programs, various health management initiatives, and other matters relating to occupational health and safety in general.
In addition, a legally mandated Health Committee is chaired by the Chief Health and Safety Supervisor (General Manager of the Human Resources & General Affairs Department) and comprises members including Health Supervisor, occupational physicians (Company Medical Clinics), Health and Productivity Management Promotion Officers in each Business Division and the Corporate Staff Group, representatives of the labor union, and the Health Insurance Association. The committee meets once a month to discuss various issues including health management and health and productivity management initiatives, improving the working environment, measures to tackle long working hours, and countermeasures for occupational accidents.
Taking regular health checkups have an extremely significant role in the early discovery and early treatment of diseases. Thus, achieving a 100% participation rate for regular health checkups is one of Marubeni’s Health Project Indicators, and the results are reviewed annually. By establishing metrics and implementing various measures, we will aim for solutions to health issues. In FYE 3/2026, we took thoroughgoing measures to ensure that employees undergo regular health checkups, aiming for the early discovery and early treatment of diseases. This resulted in 100% of employees who underwent regular health checkups (employees working in Japan) and greater health awareness among employees.To confirm if the series of health and productivity management initiatives lead to solutions towards management issues, we also check indicators such as employee engagement on a regular basis.
Additionally, we set targets for implementation rate of specific health guidance (year-on-year increase), rate of employees undergoing specific health guidance (year-on-year decrease) and smoking rate (year-on-year decrease).
Under the Marubeni Health Improvement Project, Marubeni continues to implement various initiatives based on four key themes:
In cooperation with the Health Insurance Association and occupational physicians, Marubeni implements initiatives to improve employees’ health literacy.
Among our measures to maintain and promote health, we focus on countermeasures against cancer and lifestyle-related diseases and are implementing the following initiatives.
Marubeni recognizes mental health as an important issue for improving occupational health and safety and is taking the following measures for employees and their families.
Recognizing that the maintenance and improvement of women’s health is a new challenge, Marubeni will continue strengthening the following initiatives going forward.
The Marubeni Group has established the following policies and initiatives regarding working hour management in order to realize sustainable growth through improved productivity and a working style that takes into consideration the safety and health of our employees.
Our number one priority is to ensure the safety and health of our employees and stakeholders, and we are striving to achieve a balance between the prevention of the spread of infection and our business activities by thoroughly establishing appropriate behaviors and working environments. Based on the policies and guidelines set forth by the government and local authorities, we have established and made known to all employees our policies regarding attendance at work, business trips, dinners, and so forth, and in the event of an outbreak of illness or infection among employees, we place the highest priority on preventing the spread of infection.
The company medical clinics at the Tokyo Head Office and Osaka Branch play an important role in promoting health management. At the Tokyo Head Office medical clinic, specialist departments for internal medicine, dermatology, radiology, neuropsychiatry, and dental services are available for employees at any time. Regular annual and specified health examinations are conducted by the company medical clinics, and based on the results, employees can receive follow-up services including re-testing and other treatment for lifestyle diseases, as well as health guidance from an occupational physician, public health nurse, or registered dietician.
Marubeni is expanding its business around the world. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are serious problems in some of these countries/regions. We take appropriate and timely measures against infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, overseas and in Japan. Overseas, we strive to collect information and understand the situation regarding the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases in collaboration with occupational physicians, based on information provided by the WHO and local authorities, and on-site surveys. Employees and their families receive health examinations prior to travel overseas, as well as vaccinations against infectious diseases that pose a risk at overseas postings. Furthermore, when employees based in Japan travel to areas where there is a high risk of infection, they are given appropriate precautions and business trips are restricted if necessary. In Japan, we offer vaccinations against influenza to all employees, and our company medical clinics offer vaccinations against infectious diseases such as measles, rubella, and mumps. Furthermore, the Health Insurance Association subsidizes employee vaccinations at external medical institutions.
Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad), which provides water and wastewater services to the West Zone of the Metropolitan Manila area in the Philippines with a population of 10.5 million, has been conducting programs on health issues, measures to prevent infections, and hygiene education for its employees and local residents. For its employees, Maynilad provides opportunity of regular physical examinations, in addition, care for their monitoring after physical examination results. From 2009, Maynilad has provided vaccination at reduced price each year for influenza, pneumonia, hepatitis A and B, meningitis, chickenpox, rabies, tetanus, cervical cancer, etc., and it vaccinated 1,077 employees and family members in 2022, 954 in 2023 and 736 in 2024. On-site employees engaged in wastewater service were also provided with rabies and tetanus vaccinations, free of charge. In 2024, Maynilad expanded its “GinhaWASH*1” program by donating portable lavatories, drinking fountains, and bidets to priority beneficiaries such as medical facilities, LGU offices, public schools, and other establishments that provide vital public services. Through this initiative, Maynilad turned over 97 units of refrigerated drinking fountains and 35 units of bidets, helping to promote accessible hygiene and sanitation in key community spaces.
Maynilad’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (W.A.S.H) education program, “Daloy Dunong”, continued to instill essential life skills such as proper handwashing among youth, benefiting five (5) schools in 2024. In celebration of Global Handwashing Day, the program further expanded its reach by engaging eight schools and around 800 students through interactive activities that reinforced the importance of good hygiene practices.
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Currently, there are more than 700 of Marubeni employees and more than 800 of their family members living overseas on assignment from Japan. Ensuring the health of employees and their families is essential for enabling expatriates to perform at their best. Before and during overseas assignments, we conduct health examinations and training for employees and their families to get an accurate assessment of their health status and to raise their awareness of disease prevention and health maintenance. We place particular emphasis on health examinations to achieve prevention and early treatment of diseases, and in addition to the legally mandated examination for employees assigned overseas, we require each employee to undertake annual health examinations during their assignments. We have achieved close to 100% participation by following up with employees who have not had their examinations, and we are taking measures to ensure that employees continue to take health checkups. We also offer annual health examinations and examinations after repatriation to accompanying family members. If health examination services are not available at the overseas assignment location, our system for subsidizing travel to a nearby area with advanced medical facilities or to Japan ensures peace of mind for our employees. We encourage both employees and their families to consult with occupational physicians regarding examination results and their daily health status. In the event of a dramatic outbreak of COVID-19 or a rapid deterioration of the medical environment in a foreign country, employees and their families posted in that respective country concerned will be repatriated as necessary. We have systems in place to transport people to a nearby area with advanced medical facilities or Japan in the case of an emergency so that they can receive the necessary treatment. We also partner with specialist organizations to provide nursing care support for employees’ family members living apart from them in Japan.
We recognize that people at every business site of the Marubeni Group in Japan and overseas are exposed to various risks, including acts of terrorism, natural disasters, civil unrest, robbery, traffic accidents, aviation accidents, injury, and disease. In particular, we have positioned international crisis management as a highly important Company measure. When an incident occurs, the safety of employees and their families is our primary concern. Accordingly, we strive to foster everyday awareness of crises, and we have established a permanent International Crisis Management Headquarters that is able to respond immediately should a crisis occur. Specifically, the International Crisis Management Headquarters has prepared a manual summarizing crisis management measure, such as initial actions to be taken in the event of a crisis, and conducts crisis management training for employees who are assigned overseas and their accompanying family members. We have a system in place for gathering and analyzing the latest public security information from areas around the world and share it with the relevant people. In the event of an emergency, we have established a system in which relevant parties can centrally manage information and make timely and accurate decisions and actions in cooperation with overseas bases.
In partnership with LIFEM Inc., a company which our Company holds equity, we hold free seminars approximately twice a month for other companies that are led by health management specialists and physicians and focus on women's specific health issues. These sessions provide guidance on effective measures to take and how to evaluate their effectiveness.
Marubeni has been chosen for the 2026 Health & Productivity Stock Selection, jointly organized by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).This selection recognizes outstanding TSE-listed enterprises engaging in health and productivity management, whereby these enterprises focus on and strategically implement initiatives relating to their employees’ and other workers’ health from a management perspective. 44 enterprises in 28 industries have been selected in 2025 and Marubeni was chosen as the only company in the wholesale trade category. This is the fifth time Marubeni has been selected over four consecutive years following the previous selection in 2025. It is also the ninth consecutive year the Company has been certified as a “White 500” company (a certification awarded to corporations, including large- as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises, practicing outstanding health and productivity management).Marubeni regards its employees as an indispensable asset and considers their health to be of paramount importance. The Company thus undertakes initiatives to create an environment in which each employee can autonomously and proactively take steps to maintain and promote their health. Marubeni will continue to promote health and productivity management and deepen human capital management, thereby leveraging these efforts to support the active participation of employees and facilitate the growth of the Marubeni Group.
