Communicating How We Approach Social Issues to Ensure Individual “Well-Being”

Benesse Holdings are formulating CSR Achievement Targets for the medium and long terms, in order to make the Benesse Group an even better corporate citizen.

The Benesse Group intends to step up CSR activities even more going forward. This website was therefore designed to comprehensively explain the challenges of Group companies from the perspective of our Basic Policies of CSR, comprising five elements the Benesse Group considers important in the context of CSR.

Furthermore, we have developed a new section of the website called “CSR Action” to provide stakeholders with real-time information about the Benesse Group’s increasingly active role in CSR going forward.

The report communicates simply, in an easy-to-read manner, the Benesse Group’s activities in a two-part structure. The first part is a “Core Message Page” where we look at the Benesse Group’s most important business activities as of March 31, 2011 and the underlying principles and approaches behind these activities, as we reflect on various topics of societal interest. The second part is a “Fact & Summary” page, where we introduce matters that we consider to have a high order of priority from the standpoint of importance to the Benesse Group and public interest, with reference to numbers and key words.

We hope that this website and publication will help our stakeholders to learn more about how Benesse interacts with the societies in which it operates, and will further their understanding of Benesse's initiatives in terms of CSR.

• Period Covered by the Report
  • Fiscal 2010 (April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011)
  • *The report contains information on some activities after March 31, 2011. Organization names, job titles, etc., are as of April 1, 2011
• Scope of the Report
  • Benesse Holdings, Inc. and Benesse Group companies (32 subsidiaries and 4 affiliates).
  • *Information with a specific scope is separately indicated on each page
• Reference Guidelines
  • Sustainability Reporting Guidelines Version 3.0 (G3 Guidelines), published by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
  • Environmental Reporting Guidelines 2007, published by the Ministry of the Environment
• Published:
  • September 2011
    (Published annually; Previously published September 2010; Next publication: scheduled for September 2012)