Selected for a Nadeshiko Brand 2025,
Our Seventh Selection

A selection ceremony was held for a Nadeshiko Brand 2025, which was selected by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Shimadzu was selected for the seventh time, and the first time in three years.

Yoshino Kajitani, Managing Executive Officer and in charge of diversity management, receiving the selection certificate at the selection ceremony for the Nadeshiko Brand 2025 (Photo at left, March 2025)

Nadeshiko Brand

The Nadeshiko Brand is selected by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange in each industry from all companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on a yearly basis using an index of companies that actively promote the role of women in the workplace. This year, 23 companies were selected from across Japan. Shimadzu was evaluated as a company in the electrical and precision industry category.

In terms of selection standards, in addition to a quantitative evaluation of the number of female executives and administrators, companies are assessed with a qualitative evaluation including their corporate value creation story. This involves "career formation support from hiring through to job assignment," "support for both parties, regardless of gender, enabling dual income families and dual childrearing," and "connections between management strategies and human resource strategies including the involvement of women in the company."

The Nadeshiko Brand indicates that the brand is distinguished as a company that is striving to actively promote women within the workplace, thereby aiming to heighten investor interest and further accelerate measures to promote the involvement of women at each company.

Points Evaluated at Shimadzu

Of the many companies hoping to be selected, Shimadzu scored particularly well on the following four points.
 

• Focus on the female manager ratio as a management strategy, and the pursuit of this as a target.
• Strong commitment from the top management that all executives express their messages to the employees.
• Sense that these initiatives are tied to business results.
• Through promotion projects and systematic educational programs, a strong desire is fostered in women themselves to pursue a career, leading the female manager ratio to steadily improve.

This evaluation concerns the active promotion of women within the workplace. However, by maximizing diversity on an individual basis, irrespective of gender, the Shimadzu Group is creating innovation together with all its stakeholders, aiming to continue to resolve societal challenges.

Initiatives Tied to the Active Promotion of Women within the Workplace

Shimadzu promotes a variety of initiatives to actively promote women within the workplace. Being selected as a Nadeshiko Brand 2025 is an important step in showing these results.

Here we introduce specific initiatives at Shimadzu including programs to support career formation and management personnel training for women.

Shimadzu Women Next Career Design (for assistant manager level employees) and Next Career Step (for section chief level employees)
Training takes about six months, as superiors and subordinates work together to construct careers.

Shimadzu Women Supporting Women: WSW training (for female managers at Shimadzu and Japanese Group companies)
Capabilities are cultivated through dialogue with the President and executives.

In conjunction with International Women’s Day, a WSW Meet-UP is hosted, targeting participants in WSW training. Through discussions with female executives, training promotes DE&I-related attitudes and behavior from a personal perspective.

DE&I training for all managers "Diversity is Power": The instructor was the Director in charge of diversity management.
In this training, the participants think about diversity management by themselves through repeated discussions on the basics of DE&I, approaches to management strategies, unconscious biases, and psychological safety.