Message from the President

On June 26th 2025, I was privileged to assume the role of Nippon Kayaku Group President.
I come into the position with strong passion and resolve born from my acute sense of the 109-year weight of the Kayaku sash I inherit, and my desire to build a new future with our stakeholder support network.

FY 2025 marks not only the concluding year of our KAYAKU Vision 2025 Medium-term Corporate Plan (FY2022- 2025), but also the point at which we map out the path for our next corporate plan. I am fully aware of my initial task to powerfully advance the current Plan’s key strategies and see them through to the end.
Furthermore, our next corporate plan will see us both our vision and mission from a longer-term perspective, and discuss the best form of target-setting for both company and stakeholders. I will hence stand at the forefront of our efforts to fix our upcoming corporate plan geared towards further company growth.

In order to achieve our targets, it is necessary to harness the ability–the various strengths and individuality–of each and every employee to the maximum extent, and accumulate those various abilities to increase our organizational strength. Performance of this crucial role falls to our human resources. I want our employees to earnestly engage in self-improvement, undertake new challenges with colleagues, and thereby boost their ability to deliver results. Only through constant challenge can we deliver results and change. Even a challenge resulting in failure constitutes an important outcome. I will thus join my employees in our constant challenge, perceiving change not as a risk but as something to be converted into a chance for new value creation.