Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Limited | Tokyo Steel offers a partial window into its climate-policy lobbying. It discloses one identifiable policy focus—the Japanese “Energy Conservation Act,” noting its interest in climate-related reporting requirements—showing some specificity but not a wider map of the policies on which it works. The company explains the channels it used to advance its views, describing “explanation sessions” and “factory tours” arranged for officials from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, thereby naming both the mechanisms and the governmental targets of its outreach. On objectives, it sets out a single concrete goal: securing an amendment to the Energy Conservation Act so that electricity drawn through demand-response operations powered by renewables is recognised as renewable consumption, a change it reports was adopted in the April 2023 revision. Beyond that, the narrative remains largely aspirational, referring only in broad terms to encouraging governments to classify electric-arc-furnace steel as low-carbon, recycled steel. Overall, the disclosure provides limited but tangible insight into one policy engagement and two lobbying methods, while leaving the breadth of its lobbying portfolio and the full range of desired policy outcomes unclear. | 1 |