Governance

• The AISIN Group respects the rights of shareholders, ensures shareholder equality, and endeavors to create a suitable environment for ensuring the appropriate exercise and protection of rights.
• The AISIN Group endeavors to cooperate with other stakeholders aside from shareholders (customers, suppliers, employees, and members of local communities, etc.) with sincerity and integrity, based on common sense and social values.
• The AISIN Group discloses information appropriately in accordance with applicable laws and endeavors to proactively communicate information other than that disclosed in accordance with such laws and to ensure transparency in its activities.
• In order to ensure transparency, fairness, and agility in its decision making, the AISIN Group endeavors to ensure appropriate execution of the roles and responsibilities of its Board of Directors.
• The AISIN Group endeavors to hold constructive dialogues with its shareholders, based on a shared directionality for stable long-term growth.

Corporate Governance Report

The AISIN Group aims to build good relationships with all stakeholders and to achieve stable long-term growth and development. To accomplish these, we work to enhance corporate governance in light of changes in our business and management environment, and strive to improve management transparency and fairness and to improve the speed and level of decision-making and business execution.

Under the Charter of Sustainability and the Guidelines on Compliance with Social Responsibility as basic policies, we have formulated the Antitrust Compliance Policy and the Anti-Corruption Policy as policies common to the entire AISIN Group with regard to antitrust laws and anti-corruption, along with guidelines which serve as a specific code of conduct.

Guidelines on Compliance with Social Responsibility

AISIN Group Antitrust Compliance Policy

AISIN Group Anti-Corruption Policy

AISIN Group Anti-Corruption Guideline

We carry out extensive Group-wide initiatives around the world to ensure that everyone in the AISIN Group shares the same strong sense of ethics, such as acting honestly, fairly, and in good faith, and that compliance is their default state of mind. Our goal is to maintain a high level of compliance awareness and to eradicate serious violations of the law by establishing a global Group legal and compliance system. The AISIN Group believes that an open workplace culture where employees can freely exchange opinions is the foundation of compliance. Based on this belief, we strive to create an environment where employees can first consult their supervisors and others when in doubt and ensure that employees are aware of the use of the whistleblower hotline while listening to the real voices of employees through compliance awareness surveys and workplace visits by the Group Head Office Legal Affairs Department. Through these initiatives, we are working to create a workplace culture where employees can respect and care for each other by sharing their joys and concerns.

Aisin Global Hotline

We will live up to the expectations of our stakeholders by preventing and mitigating various risks that may have a significant impact on our activities to achieve our objectives and if such risks occur, by minimizing the impact on business management and guaranteeing our sustainability as a company.

Sophisticated risk management

The AISIN Group apologizes for the inconvenience and concern caused by the 1997 Kariya Plant fire. Taking this opportunity, we have introduced Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and worked on Group-wide risk management to avoid repeating the same mistake. In recent years, the risks surrounding business management have become increasingly complex and diverse, such as natural disasters, including the Noto Peninsula Earthquake and the frequent occurrence of “linear” torrential rain, parts supply issues, and geopolitical and economic security risks.
Against this backdrop, we aim to “make our risk management more sophisticated, which means a state where we have successfully minimized all kinds of risks.” To achieve this, we introduced a new risk management process in FY2023 for the integrated management of risks, including those related to management strategies. We will preemptively manage risks by identifying signs of risks and appropriately analyzing and evaluating the significance of their impact, from the perspective of “risks to our business strategies” that may impede us from implementing these strategies and “operational risks” that may hinder smooth business operations.

We have established the AISIN Group Information Security Basic Policy, under which we carry out systematic and continual information security measures.

AISIN Group Information Security Basic Policy

• Legal compliance
• Maintenance of stable financial and managerial base
• Provision of safe products and services
• Contribution to building secure cyberspace
• Information security management

AISIN Group Information Security Basic Policy

Based on the belief that information assets related to our business activities that are entrusted to us by customers and business partners, or are held by the AISIN Group, are important assets, we will appropriately identify changing threats to corporate management activities and keep track of technological advances, and implement comprehensive countermeasures across the entire Group.