MC became a signatory to the UN Global Compact (UNGC) in 2010, and has engaged at the Participant level as of the year ended March 2019. The UNGC has laid out a set of universal principles for signatories to observe, organized into the four fields of human rights, labor standards, environment and anti-corruption. MC has declared its support for the principles, and is promoting initiatives in each field in the spirit of the Three Corporate Principles. Furthermore, MC is an executive member of the Global Compact Network Japan, which was launched as a local network in Japan in 2003. We actively participate as part of our stakeholder engagement activities aimed at understanding the external environment and fostering collaboration with other companies.