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NIKON REPORT 2016
Nikon’s CSR Activities that Support Growth
Scholarships in Thailand
The Nikon Group, in cooperation with an NGO, has been operating a
scholarship system in Thailand since 2007.
The Nikon-Shanti Scholarship, which is operated by Japan’s
Shanti Volunteer Association and the local Sikkha Asia Foundation,
provides scholarships to junior high, high school, and university stu-
dents in Thailand whose school attendance is suffering due to family
nancial difculties, as the economic disparities in this country are
considerable. In the scal year ended March 31, 2016, the school
attendance of 150 junior high and high school as well as 25 university
students was supported. Up to now, a cumulative total of 1,542
students have received support in attending school.
To give the scholarship students the chance to experience the
excitement that photographs have to offer, we have been taking and
presenting a photograph of them together with their families and
friends since 2013.
The Nikon-EDF Japan Scholarship and the Nikon-JICA
Scholarship are also supporting the school attendance of junior high,
high school, and university students in Laos.
Implementation of Survey and Audits Based on CSR Procurement Standards
The Nikon Group promotes activities together with all of its procure-
ment partners to practice social responsibility-based behavior along
the entire length of the supply chain.
In August 2015, the Group formulated the Nikon CSR
Procurement Standards to clarify the rules for its procurement partners.
The Group also commenced audits to conrm the working situations
at procurement partner premises. Undertaking further assessments
on items that the Nikon Group considers important, 207 procurement
partner companies that were considered to be high CSR risks were
selected to conduct self-assessments. As a result, a third-party
agency visited and conducted audits of three companies that were
judged to require on-the-spot conrmation. 13 companies, including
these three companies, were requested to submit improvement plan
documentation. We will continue with these audits and further
promote responsible procurement.
Scholarship awards ceremony in Bangkok (November 2015)
Flow of Procurement Partner CSR Improvement Activities
Explanatory session
(Explains Nikons CSR Procurement Standards
and content of the survey)
CSR Survey
(Self-assessment by procurement partners)
CSR Audit
(Audit by third-party agency) /
Request for submission of improvement plan
Risk assessment
Analysis
(Based on risk assessment standard)
Improvement support
SUSTAINABILITY
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NIKON REPORT 2016