Top Commitment

Promoting “Good in Five Key Areas” through “Solidarity and Symbiosis”

I would like to express my deepest sympathy to those whose lives were impacted by the Great East Japan Earthquake and extend my hope for a speedy recovery and reconstruction of the affected areas.
What can we do to help in the reconstruction of Tohoku? We must each answer this question and individually do what we can.
However, I believe many of our efforts have commonalities where solidarity and symbiosis can also significantly yield results.
In the Anritsu Group, although the Koriyama Office and Tohoku Anritsu Co., Ltd. buildings in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture were partially damaged, all production line operations were restored to normal after two weeks. This quick recovery was the result of customers, business partners, carriers and employees working together. Over the course of restoring operations, I experienced a sense of symbiosis with all our stakeholders and reaffirmed the importance of solidarity to solve problems.
Our goal is to be a company with integrity, and that thinks and acts for the sake of harmonizing the interests of five key areas.
These areas: sellers, employees, consumers, society and the natural environment, are the basis for our CSR under our slogan “Good in Five Key Areas,” which I have advocated since becoming president.
The Anritsu Group will widen the circle of solidarity and symbiosis with all its stakeholders in order to play a role in developing a sustainable society in which people, society and nature live together in harmony.

Providing New Value through Innovation

I recognize the reconstruction of Tohoku is intimately connected with the issue of how Japan should rebuild itself as a nation and society, and information communication technology will play a key role.
The earthquake led many people to experience the importance of being connected. Information communication networks represent vital lifelines with no limits on technological innovation, and their utilization is growing in various fields, including the environment, healthcare, welfare and administrative services, with the expectation of creating a new value and greater convenience for all of society.
The Anritsu Group has been repairing measuring instruments that were damaged by the disaster and lends measuring instruments free of charge for such purposes as maintaining optical fiber lines.
We will faithfully continue these efforts while also providing solutions with even greater added value to aid in the reconstruction.
Innovation is the foundation for all these efforts. The Anritsu Group takes advantage of a variety of technologies in fields such as measurement, video distribution, foreign materials detection and check weighing. We will constantly review these technologies from fresh perspectives to generate ideas for creating solutions that support the development of a safe, secure and comfortable society.

Contributing to the Progress of the International Community

The Anritsu Group’s continued contribution to the resolution of social issues through its core business will mean that Group employees worldwide will have to share common values and ethics.
Most of the Group’s business operations are conducted on a global basis, with the measurement, industrial automation and optical device businesses for customers outside Japan accounting for approximately 60% of the Group’s sales, and 70% in our core measurement business. 40% of our employees work outside Japan and increasingly more materials are being procured worldwide. We must establish common guidelines for all Group employees in order to conduct business and strengthen cooperative relationships with stakeholders from different countries, which have their own legal systems, customs and cultures.
Therefore, all members of the Anritsu Group agree to operate under the United Nations Global Compact in addition to the Anritsu Group Charter of Corporate Behavior. By incorporating such behavioral principles under the international initiative in our day-to-day operations, we aim to become a company that is trusted and recognized by the international community.

Weaving the Future with Sincerity, Harmony and Enthusiasm

The Anritsu Group conducts business across wide-ranging fields including information communication, food and pharmaceuticals, and social infrastructure. As stated in our company philosophy, the foundation of these businesses is “Sincerity, Harmony and Enthusiasm.” The Anritsu Group will mark its 120th anniversary in 2015, an impressive milestone against the conventional wisdom that any typical business can only flourish for 30 years. The company’s long history in the rapidly evolving information-communication field is the result of constant innovation that has consistently delivered “Original & High Level” products and services. The “DNA” of Anritsu includes “Sincerity and Harmony,” enduring values that have not changed since the company’s establishment, and innovation, which reflects our enthusiasm for change. This DNA will enable us to continuingly evolve long into the future and to work toward the sustainable development of society and continuous growth in corporate profit. We look forward to your continued support and cooperation.