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What are your thoughts with respect to hiring non-Japanese exchange
students and promoting foreigners to management positions? Also,
how do you cultivate globally competent human resources?
We will be proactive in recruiting and appointing non-Japanese
employees. At the same time, we will cultivate global human
resources through such means as global management training and by
assigning Japanese staff to overseas positions.
We have many local people serving in executive positions at our marketing com-
panies around the world. In fact, in Europe, our largest regional market, all of
the presidents of our marketing companies except for one are from Europe. And,
in addition to proactively recruiting non-Japanese exchange students, we offer a
global management training program in coordination with the Institute for
International Management Development (IMD), a business school in Switzer-
land. Meanwhile, there are always around 1,000 of our Japanese employees
posted at our marketing and manufacturing companies worldwide. In this way,
we are cultivating large numbers of human resources capable of embracing
diversity and responding flexibly while respecting local cultures and customs.
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What is Canon doing about environmental issues?
In addition to developing products with high environmental perform-
ance, we will emphasize a localized production model for toner
cartridges and other initiatives in order to reduce the environmental
burden of our business activities.
Our policy is to develop energy-saving technologies and materials with low
environmental burden while raising the performance of our products. In
1990 we launched our Toner Cartridge Collection and Recycling Program
and now carry out the localized recycling of cartridges in the United States,
Japan, China and France. We are also promoting localized production,
reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions associated with
product transportation.
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BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS OF
AN ENVIRONMENTALLY ADVANCED CORPORATION
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IMPARTING A CORPORATE CULTURE, AND CULTIVATING HUMAN RESOURCES
BEFITTING A TRULY EXCELLENT GLOBAL COMPANY
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Managers from Group companies worldwide
gather at the Canon Global Management
Institute in Japan to study corporate strategies
and engage in cross-cultural exchanges.
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The imageRUNNER ADVANCE series realizes
a reduction in total CO2emissions, through
an environmentally conscious design method
to set and control CO2emission reduction
targets for each stage of the product lifecycle.
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STRATEGY Business Units Management System Financial SectionSTRATEGY