Sustainability

Up to now, I’ve been involved in production technology and promoting IT/DX at the front line of a B2B business of a Japanese materials manufacturer. I hold the deepest respect for the efforts of employees in the distribution and home appliance industries who spend every day alongside customers providing value on the front lines.

My duty is to provide appropriate oversight of management from my independent, outside standpoint, while also encouraging the Company to leverage its strengths and to address its management issues from a medium- to long-term perspective. As the business environment undergoes seismic changes due to the rapid evolution of AI, digitalization, and increased geopolitical risks, I will help make governance more robust and transparent to achieve sustainable growth and increase corporate value.

It’s the insights and enthusiasm of each of our employees working in both stores and back offices that will be the power forging the future of Joshin. While valuing the viewpoints of our shareholders and customers, I will also listen sincerely to feedback from employees as I put all my efforts into realizing a better vision of what the Company should be.

Our industry’s environment is changing as uncertainties are rising around the world and Japan faces the issues of higher inflation, population decline, and labor shortages, as well as the digitalization of consumer behavior. For Joshin to grow sustainably, it’s important for us to be an organization that treats stores, e-commerce, delivery, and after-sales service as an integrated whole, translates customer needs into enhanced products and services and improved operations, leverages frontline knowledge in management decisions, and can execute management policies.

Through my involvement in the management of a retail company, I have placed importance on making investment decisions based on numerical data after understanding changes in lifestyles and purchasing behavior, and on allocating resources to support competitiveness over the medium to long term.

I will use my experience of confronting management issues from both financial and business development perspectives in diverse business domains in Japan and overseas to support Joshin in increasing customer value and profitability, while also balancing growth investment with financial discipline.

Additionally, I will incorporate into management the insights gained from market trends, the capital markets’ assessment of the Company, and dialogue with stakeholders to improve the quality of decision-making from the independent standpoint of an outside director, thereby contributing to the sustainable enhancement of Joshin’s corporate value.

As the market environment changes significantly, the Board of Directors plays a critical role in enhancing corporate value by making swift and appropriate management decisions. To do this, it’s essential to monitor the information that forms the basis of management decisions in a timely and appropriate manner to identify the signs of change at an early stage.

With this in mind, I’ve drawn on my knowledge and experience as a certified public accountant at many companies during their transition into a company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee to improve the transparency and appropriateness of management decisions at the Board of Directors from financial, accounting, and internal control perspectives. I verify from multiple viewpoints the information required for management decisions while taking into account changes in the industry environment, and I continuously check data such as profits and losses by category, channel, and store through reports from the management team. For the implementation of Joshin Reborn Action 2026 as well, I make recommendations to facilitate managerial decision-making based on appropriate information sharing. Furthermore, my work to enhance the succession plan as a member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee will help form a Board of Directors that supports a sustainable increase in corporate value.