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Diversity&Inclusion

Mission

  • Ensure the happiness of our employees and their families
  • Improve JERA’s enterprise value

Vision

  • Provide everyone with opportunities and expectations for their own growth and contribution
  • Respect diversity and share vectors for creating value through flat communication

Message

  • Global CEO and Chair
    Yukio
    Kani
    Global CEO and
    Chair
  • President, Director, CEO and COO
    Hisahide
    Okuda
    President, Director, CEO and COO

Overview

Realizing our corporate mission and vision
Mission
To provide cutting edge solutions to the world’s energy issues
Vision
To scale up our clean energy platform of renewables and low greenhouse gas thermal power, sparking sustainable development in Asia and around the world
Realizing our
D&I mission
and vision
Realizing an environment where innovation organically occurs

Through our ongoing D&I activities, we aim to create an environment where each of our employees can thrive and fulfill their potential. We also strive to foster a culture of innovation by encouraging our people to learn from and be influenced by the skills and values that make others unique.

Vision

Fostering a flat and innovative culture

By encouraging open and direct communication among employees and between employees and management, we aim to foster a culture where each of our people take initiative in our D&I activities.

D&Fostering a flat and innovative culture
  • Global D&I Forum

    Global D&I Forum

  • Experts’ Salon

    Experts’ Salon

  • World Café

    World Café

  • Family Day

    Family Day

Welcoming diversity

We strive to create an inclusive work environment where diverse talent can realize their full potential.

Welcoming diversity
  • Women’s empowerment

    Women’s empowerment

  • Femtech initiatives

    Femtech initiatives

  • Disability inclusion

    Disability inclusion

  • LGBTQ+ inclusion

    LGBTQ+ inclusion

  • Support for non-Japanese employees

    Support for non-Japanese employees

Creating workplaces where everyone can shine

By identifying and addressing issues in the ways our people work, we strive to create an environment where all employees can thrive.

Creating workplaces where everyone can shine
  • Employee Satisfaction Survey

    Employee Satisfaction Survey

  • D&I Suggestion Box

    D&I Suggestion Box

Company-wide initiatives to raise awareness of D&I

  • As part of our efforts to promote understanding of D&I, we hold month-long events twice a year. These events aim to provide employees with the opportunity to personally engage with D&I issues and take action.
    We have implemented the following initiatives to date:

Awards and recognition

  • D&I Award

    D&I Award2024

    In 2024, for the second consecutive year, JERA was designated as a “Best Workplace,” the highest of the four tiers in JobRainbow’s D&I Awards, which recognize companies for their D&I initiatives. We were also awarded the Semi-Grand Prize, which recognizes initiatives that serve as positive examples for other companies.

  • Pride Index

    Pride Index Gold

    JERA was awarded the Silver award in FY2022 and the Gold award in both FY2023 and FY2024 in the Pride Index, which measures engagement with LGBTQ+ issues.

  • Eruboshi certification

    Eruboshi certification

    JERA has been awarded the 2-star “Eruboshi” certification by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a company proactively engaged in the promotion of women’s empowerment in accordance with Japan’s Act on the Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace.

Achievements

  • Male Leaders Coalition for Empowerment of Women

    Male Leaders Coalition for Empowerment of Women

    We are a member of the Male Leaders Coalition for Empowerment of Women, an initiative of the Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office.

  • G20 Empower

    G20 EMPOWER

    We are an advocate of G20 EMPOWER, a private-sector alliance of companies committed to accelerating women’s empowerment.

  • Keidanren Female Executives Mission to the United States

    Keidanren

    Female representatives of Keidanren (the Japan Business Federation) and several companies, including JERA, exchanged opinions on women’s empowerment and D&I with members of the US government, international organizations, and private enterprises.