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Strengthen
Governance
Strengthening our cooperation with external directors
To clarify executive responsibility and accelerate decision-making by delegation of authority, as well to strengthen the
supervisory function of the Board of Directors, the Company made the transition to a company with an Audit and
Supervisory Committee after gaining the approval of the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting held in June 2016.
The important thing is to change the substance. For example, until now medium-term management plans
compiled by the management team have been passed by resolutions made at Board of Directors. From now on,
plans will be discussed from the initial stages of their creation with external directors at Board of Directors.
Conventionally, a range of opinions come from external directors, from the perspectives of their management
experiences in other companies or from a lawyer’s point of view. From now on, however, even more than that, when
it comes to management issues and strategies, I would like to deepen the discussions and work to strengthen
corporate governance.
Nikon’s Social
Responsibility
Unique Nikon Group ways of contributing to a
sustainable society
How can we as the Nikon Group contribute to the sustainable development of society? I feel that this is a question
that has been asked even more often of late. In this regard, centered on the corporate philosophy of
“Trustworthiness and Creativity,” the Nikon Group is speeding up its entry into, for example, the business elds of
cells for regenerative medicine therapeutics and external diagnosis. If you mean environment, society and governance
(ESG) factors, I feel that we will be contributing to improving the health and happiness of people all over the world.
In addition, I can cite examples of our solutions in smart factories. If Nikon’s optical technologies are able to contribute
to the spread of customers’ smart factories, there will be a business opportunity and we will also be advancing a
decrease in the impact on the global environment.
The Nikon Group possesses many technologies that are capable of bringing value to society both now and
into the future. A company at the forefront in terms of creating new value, I would like to make the Nikon Group
a company that typies support for a sustainable society.
the scal year ended March 31, 2016, I do not believe that this upward trend will continue. Of course, there is a
sense of anticipation in the case of new demand for large-sized high-denition panels, but I naturally have no
intention of managing the business on the basis of such expectations.
I have positioned this year as one in which we will steadily advance preparations for the essential challenges of
accelerating Transform to Grow and to make Nikon’s future vision more concrete.
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