Toyota Tsusho's Human Resources Principle^*1 is to realize its management strategies based on "Genchi, Genbutsu, Genjitsu (On site, hands on, in touch)." Accordingly, from the perspective of overall optimization, Toyota Tsusho will employ, develop, and advance employees who can collaborate and lead the way to an even better future. Under this principle, Toyota Tsusho positions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) as a management foundation that enables diverse human capital to use their capabilities to the fullest, and is advancing reforms toward flexible and productive ways of working.

Toyota Tsusho also regards dual careers and co-parenting as a prerequisite for enabling each employee to build a medium- to long-term career and continue taking on new challenges. Regardless of gender, it is expanding a range of systems and encouraging their use to support employees in achieving work-life balance through flexible work styles.

In particular, Toyota Tsusho has been promoting new values by introducing the concept of "childcare learning," in which childcare leave is not considered a "vacation" but rather an "opportunity to learn," since 2023. To make this concept take root not as a mere policy but as the attitude of each and every employee, it is creating work environments that include the expansion of systems that support work-life balance.

From 2025, to further advance these efforts, Toyota Tsusho established the Human Company Taskforce, a company-wide cross-functional council bringing together officers from each division. The taskforce has begun discussing and making decisions each month on issues related to people and organizations as a management agenda. This approach not only builds systems for women's empowerment, but also translates into behavioral change through integrated action by both management and frontline employees.

■ Improvement of Job Satisfaction
- Introduction of the concept of "childcare learning" to gain new insights and skills from childcare
- Implementation of training for all employees on "unconscious bias," which prevents employees from being active regardless of their attributes

■ Reform of Work Styles
(1) Systems
- Flextime work system, work-from-home system, system of reduced working hours
- Up to 20 working days of paid leave during the childcare leave period
- Leave system for employees accompanying a spouse on overseas relocation
- Career bridge system: A system, subject to certain requirements, for rehiring employees who have no choice but to resign due to marriage or a change in residence due to their spouse's relocation

(2) Environment
- Distribution of information on the intranet to support employees who provide childcare and nursing care at home while working
- Provision of opportunities for employees to meet and share information on childcare and careers
- Holding of the company introduction event for families "Welcome to Toyota Tsusho"
- Promotion of participation in childcare by sending individual guidance to male employees who have newly born children and their managers to encourage them to take childcare leave

Toyota Tsusho believes its selection under the FY2025 Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual Careers and Co-parenting program reflects high recognition of these initiatives. Toyota Tsusho will continue to maximize the value of its human capital and sustainably enhance corporate value by fostering an environment and corporate culture in which diverse employees can fully demonstrate their abilities at every stage of life.

*1 For details on Toyota Tsusho's Human Resources Principle, please refer to the following page:
　https://toyota-tsusho.disclosure.site/en/themes/28/

*2 For details on Toyota Tsusho's main initiatives that support work-life balance, please refer to the following pages:
Working Environment: https://toyota-tsusho.disclosure.site/en/themes/27/
Promoting Diversity: https://toyota-tsusho.disclosure.site/en/themes/29/

Toyota Tsusho's human resources initiatives are also presented in our corporate website, the Human Capital Report 2025 and the Integrated Report 2025.
- Toyota Tsusho's corporate website: Sustainability
　https://toyota-tsusho.disclosure.site/en/

- Human Capital Report 2025:
　https://toyota-tsusho.disclosure.site/english/sustainability/pdf/human_capital_report_en_2025.pdf

- Integrated Report 2025:
　https://www.toyota-tsusho.com/english/ir/library/integrated-report/pdf/ar2025e_all.pdf
　(Please refer to pp. 42–46 for the Human Capital Strategy.)