Japan Post Holdings Co Ltd

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Comprehensive	Japan Post Holdings is highly transparent about its climate-policy lobbying. It names multiple concrete measures it engages on, including the “Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures,” the “Act on the Rationalization of Energy Use and Conversion to Non-Fossil Energy,” the government’s “Green Transformation (GX) League Basic Concept,” the “Smart Mobility Society Construction Project,” the “Basic Guidelines for Climate Transition Finance,” and the Ministry of the Environment’s “Zero Carbon City” initiative. The company also spells out how and where it seeks to influence these measures: it “regularly submits reports to the Japanese government” on its emissions performance, participates in METI-led working groups on the GX League, collaborates with MLIT and METI in the Green Partnership Conference, and has “requested the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to periodically update the technology roadmap” while encouraging municipalities to adopt zero-carbon declarations. Finally, it is explicit about the outcomes it seeks, such as shaping the design of a national emissions-trading system, securing updated transition-finance guidelines for high-emitting sectors, promoting municipal zero-carbon commitments, and achieving carbon neutrality in its own operations through fleet electrification and logistics efficiencies like the “Super-Full Trailer” programme. By clearly linking specific policies, named government targets, concrete engagement channels and the precise changes it wants to see, the group demonstrates a comprehensive level of transparency on its climate lobbying activities.	4

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
None	Japan Post Holdings Co Ltd provides extensive detail on its ESG investment policy—stating, for example, that the “ESG investment policy stipulates the integration of ESG factors into the investment process and the constructive dialogue and exercise of shareholder voting rights in consideration of ESG factors,” and describing how the “Responsible Investment Advisory Subcommittee deliberates and reports to the Sustainability Committee and the Management Meeting”—but we found no evidence of any governance process for lobbying or policy advocacy. There is no reference to overseeing, monitoring, or aligning direct or indirect lobbying activities with its climate strategy, nor any mention of a formal body or individual responsible for political engagement alignment.	0