Guidelines on Respecting Human Rights in Responsible Supply Chains.

These Guidelines, based the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework (UN Guiding Principles) and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, are established to help deepen business enterprises' understanding and promote their efforts by explaining the activities that business enterprises are requested to undertake to respect human rights.
The Guidelines are not legally binding. However, all business enterprises (including sole proprietors) engaging in business activities in Japan should strive in efforts to respect human rights in their business enterprise, group companies, suppliers, etc. inside and outside Japan to the fullest extent possible, in line with the Guidelines, which are based on international standards.
Business enterprises should express their commitment to meet their responsibility to respect human rights inside and outside the business enterprise through a human rights policy that fulfills the requirements as prescribed in the Section 3. The Guidelines further provides for: identification and assessment of adverse impacts, vulnerable stakeholders (including women, children, persons with disabilities, indigenous people), prevention or mitigation of adverse impacts, etc.