Each year, S&P Global evaluates the sustainability of the world's leading companies from the three dimensions of economy, environment and society, and rates companies with excellent evaluation results in each industry as "Top 1%", "Top 5%", or "Top 10%" depending on their score. Mitsui was selected as one of the "Top 5% (Top 5% S&P Global ESG Score 2022)" in the "Trading Companies and Distributors Industry".

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CDP is an ESG evaluation program that urges leading companies (in terms of market capitalization) in major countries to disclose their climate change strategies and greenhouse gas emissions. Replies from such companies, together with their scores, are provided to institutional investors. Mitsui has been responding to the questionnaire since 2011. Based on our response to the questionnaire carried out in 2022, we received the following scores: Climate Change: B, Water Security: B, Forests (timber): B, Forests (Palm): B.

Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings is an ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) Risk Rating provided by Sustainalytics to world's leading corporations, lenders, and banks to measure their exposure to industry-specific material ESG risks and how well a company is managing those risks.
In March 2022, Mitsui was assessed to be at Low Risk of experiencing material financial impacts from ESG factors.

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Since the fiscal year ended March 2013, METI and the TSE have been jointly selecting TSE-listed outstanding enterprises that encourage women's success in the workplace as "Nadeshiko Brands." Since the fiscal year ended March 2015, Mitsui has been selected as a Nadeshiko or Semi-Nadeshiko Brand company for 8 consecutive years.
Nadeshiko Brand selection: Fiscal years ended March 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2021
Semi-Nadeshiko Brand selection: Fiscal years ended March 2017, 2019 and 2022

The Eruboshi system certifies companies that have submitted notifications under the Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace (Promotion of Women's Career Activities Act) promulgated on April 1, 2016, and that meet the specific standards and are regarded as implementing outstanding initiatives to promote the advancement of women in the workplace. Mitsui was certified as having achieved the second of three levels under the Eruboshi system.

Kurumin certification is awarded to companies that support child raising. The certification requires that the company (1) has formulated a general employers action plan under The Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children and (2) has achieved targets set in the plan while satisfying certain requirements, and is available on an application basis. In recognition of our efforts to promote the use of support systems for balancing work and home life, along with other initiatives, in 2022 Mitsui received Platinum Kurumin certification, as an excellent company that supports child-raising.

Through this program, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi jointly recognize large companies and small- to medium-sized enterprises that have been implementing excellent health management, based on measures in line with local health problems and the health promotion initiatives pursued by the Nippon Kenko Kaigi. Mitsui has been recognized as one of the Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations under the initiative "White 500" for six consecutive years.

Mitsui was awarded its first IR Grand Prix Award at the 26th IR Awards 2021, hosted by JIRA. We were previously a recipient of the Best IR Award in 2008, 2018 and 2019, and the IR Special Award in 2014.

Mitsui was selected by The Securities Analysts Association of Japan for the top award in the category of general trading companies at the 2022 Awards for Excellence in Corporate Disclosure. This is the seventh time in total and the sixth consecutive year that we have received this award.

Mitsui was awarded the Excellence Award for the "2021 Internet IR Award" and "2022 Internet IR Award" hosted by Daiwa Investor Relations Co., Ltd. We also received the Grand Prize in the Sustainability Category, for 2021 and 2022.

Mitsui has been selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan ("METI") as a "DX Stocks 2023" under the Digital Transformation (DX) Stock selection program administered jointly by the Tokyo Stock Exchange ("TSE") and the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan ("IPA").
For the purpose of penetrating the target company model widely, promoting a change in management's awareness, and also further promoting DX by earning recognition from a wide range of stakeholders, METI, TSE and IPA jointly selected the companies, that have established internal systems for promoting DX that contribute to improving corporate value and have achieved outstanding digital utilization, as "DX Stocks" from among TSE-listed companies that responded to a survey titled "2023 Survey on Digital Transformation." This year, 32 companies including Mitsui have been selected for "DX Stocks 2023" and 19 companies have been selected as "Noteworthy DX Companies 2023".