Implementation of In-house Education

The SMM Group conducts in-house education to ensure that employees understand who indigenous people are and how the Group should handle indigenous rights. This education will enable employees to understand that it is an issue that concerns us all through messages from top management and case studies from within the Group. We are also continuing dialogues with experts^* on indigenous people regarding content and receiving guidance to ensure fairness in the materials.
Acting under the guidance of experts, we will continue our efforts to further deepen Group employees’ understanding of indigenous peoples and their traditions and cultures.

• Keiichi Omoto (emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Tokyo), Tomoaki Nishihara (professor at Seisa University), Eiichiro Noguchi (coordinator of the NGO Taiga Forum)