SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE MEDIA DO GROUPMATERIAL ISSUES

Sustainability for the MEDIA DO Group entails a concerted effort by all officers and employees to carry out their business activities based on a sense of responsibility and pride toward the contributions made by the Group’s businesses and services to the development of a healthy economy and the cultural advances stimulated by written works. We carry out our business activities based on the understanding that this approach is congruent with our mission and our vision while also being a driver of corporate value creation.

In our corporate creed, we state, "MEDIA DO will continue to grow so long as its people grow," highlighting that human resources are essential for sustainable growth. We aim to maximize each employee's “growth and potential as a person” and create an environment that encourages independence and allows them to realize their own personal growth and take the initiative to face challenges while feeling their own potential. Recognizing that this practice and embodiment align with our Mission and Vision, we will carry out our business activities as the foundation for creating corporate value.

As described in its corporate creed, the MEDIA DO Group believes in the potential of its employees and aspires to create mutually beneficial win–win relationships with employees in which the growth and ambitions of employees drive the growth of the Group. To this end, training and evaluation systems are being improved and expanded to cultivate people who are adept at transforming change into opportunities with their innovativeness and at tying these opportunities to the creation of new ideas or solutions to issues via entrepreneurship.

We are keenly attuned to the relationship between society and the MEDIA DO Group as we seek to link the sustainability of society to the value created by the Group and to achieve improvements thereof. At the same time, we adopt a collective impact approach, reaching beyond the boundaries of the organization to partner with various stakeholders in order to generate a positive impact on society by addressing the issues faced by communities and society as a whole.

The MEDIA DO Group takes a technology-first approach toward developing and supplying solutions to the issues faced by the industry and society as a whole. By embracing internal digital transformation, we seek to deliver products and services that are matched to the needs of our diverse stakeholders and their equally diverse values to become an entity that supports the digital transformation of the content industry.

The MEDIA DO Group’s mission is to provide the social infrastructure necessary for robust cultural development and thereby support sound digital distribution and a creation cycle for written works. The development of frameworks and systems that are deemed secure and reliable by creators, publishers, stores, users (readers), and other stakeholders is imperative to accomplishing this mission. We have therefore identified information security as an important management priority and are implementing measures to strengthen security on a Groupwide basis.

The MEDIA DO Group recognizes the following as important management issues to be addressed as its management grows increasingly more global: The improvement of management health and transparency through enhanced corporate governance to facilitate the further broadening of its business and the heightening of corporate value. To ensure impartial and highly effective management, the Group will continue to strengthen its corporate governance systems through such means as more effectively allocating resources and expediting decisions under the guidance of the Board of Directors.

Entrenching corporate ethics and awareness of these principles throughout the Group will be imperative to improving the health and transparency of management. By fostering such awareness, the MEDIA DO Group aims to develop a corporate culture in which all internal institutions, officers, and employees make fair and accurate decisions. At the same time, we pledge to remain mindful of our social responsibility as a good corporate citizen in all of our business activities in order to maintain the trust of our various stakeholders.

The MEDIA DO Group is committed to the maximization of its business value through efficient business operation and disciplined investment based on a consideration of cost of capital and profitability of used capital. In tandem with these investments, we are optimizing our business portfolio while diversifying our management and businesses in order to accomplish our goal of becoming a Publishing Platformer.