The NTT Group considers the creation of a corporate culture free of prejudice and discrimination to be essential to the formation of a well-adjusted society where human rights are respected. We also feel that actively tackling human rights issues is another aspect of fulfilling our corporate responsibility to all of our stakeholders, and as such, we take a unified approach to addressing human rights issues.

More specifically, we encourage employees to regard human rights as a personal issue, and work to deepen their awareness and understanding so that they show respect for human rights in their day-to-day business activities and take a firm stand against discrimination by others. To this end, we provide a broad range of human rights education focused on such issues as prejudice against specific social groups, people with disabilities, the elderly, foreign residents in Japan, sexual harassment, and power harassment, as well as introducing human rights trends in Japan and abroad.

Furthermore, all NTT Group companies provide workshops, e-learning courses, and other programs that enable employees to learn about these issues on a multifaceted continuing basis. Other activities to boost and establish awareness of human rights include soliciting slogans and ideas for posters promoting awareness of human rights from NTT employees and their families, the best of which are compiled into calendars and distributed around the workplace.