Otsuka Holdings Co Ltd – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Moderate	Otsuka Holdings has a basic governance framework that enables it to align its industry association advocacy with its climate change strategy but does not disclose any comparable oversight of direct lobbying activities or a comprehensive review of lobbying alignment. The company’s Sustainability Promotion Committee “promotes sustainability throughout the Otsuka group,” is chaired by “the Otsuka Holdings director in charge of sustainability promotion,” and sees material ESG issues approved by the Board of Directors, indicating a clear forum for high-level oversight of sustainability priorities. In the indirect lobbying channel, its subsidiaries’ participation in FPMAJ’s “Carbon Neutrality Action Plan” ensures that “Officials from our Company are participating as the working group members and ensure through regular meetings that the goals of the FPMAJ are aligned with our Company’s climate change strategy.” Otsuka also affirms a public position “to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.” However, the company does not disclose a dedicated policy or procedure for managing its own lobbying efforts against its climate commitments, no named body responsible exclusively for lobbying alignment, and no published audit or report evaluating its lobbying governance. View Sources	C

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Moderate

Otsuka Holdings has a basic governance framework that enables it to align its industry association advocacy with its climate change strategy but does not disclose any comparable oversight of direct lobbying activities or a comprehensive review of lobbying alignment. The company’s Sustainability Promotion Committee “promotes sustainability throughout the Otsuka group,” is chaired by “the Otsuka Holdings director in charge of sustainability promotion,” and sees material ESG issues approved by the Board of Directors, indicating a clear forum for high-level oversight of sustainability priorities. In the indirect lobbying channel, its subsidiaries’ participation in FPMAJ’s “Carbon Neutrality Action Plan” ensures that “Officials from our Company are participating as the working group members and ensure through regular meetings that the goals of the FPMAJ are aligned with our Company’s climate change strategy.” Otsuka also affirms a public position “to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.” However, the company does not disclose a dedicated policy or procedure for managing its own lobbying efforts against its climate commitments, no named body responsible exclusively for lobbying alignment, and no published audit or report evaluating its lobbying governance.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
None	Otsuka Holdings provides no disclosure that it undertakes, or refrains from, climate-related lobbying. The only information available concerns its participation in a local forest-conservation partnership, which is framed as a community environmental activity rather than an effort to influence public policy. The company does not identify any climate-policy proposals, laws or regulations it has engaged on, gives no details of contacts with lawmakers, industry associations or other channels that could serve as lobbying mechanisms, and offers no statement of the policy outcomes it supports or opposes. As a result, there is no transparency about its climate lobbying activities.	E