At the Canon Marketing Japan (hereafter, the "Canon MJ"), we have a basic policy of evaluating job performance, awareness, and actions fairly and equally regardless of gender, age and educational background. We apply a similar policy to human resource development. We provide educational opportunities, including opportunities to receive IT literacy education and education for each employee level, fairly to all employees who proactively seek learning.
Further, in 2021, we defined our ideal human resources and began to work proactively on human resources development, aiming to achieve the objective of developing skilled human resources that is set out in the Long-Term Management Objectives.

At the Canon MJ Group, we provide basic training that is common to all job categories, training for increasing expertise in each field and developing personnel who can lead their departments, and selective training for the management executives of the future.

We provide rank-specific training based on the personnel training system that defines the ability to think, the ability to execute, and the ability to involve other people, in a stepwise manner.

Skills needed for business expansion are defined on a department-by-department basis, and specialist training is provided to have employees acquire those skills.

Instead of focusing only on the acquisition of the knowledge needed for management, we provide liberal arts training for learning diverse perspectives and flexible thinking, aiming to refine trainees' sensitivity and sensibility.

We provide rank-specific training, which is aimed at supporting the transition when employees move to a higher stage, and online training intended for all employees. In rank-specific training, employees strive to achieve their ideal, of which they have a specific image, by developing their skills and mindset.
Moreover, we have expanded the menu for improving project management skills, language proficiency, PC skills, and other skills so that anyone can achieve personal development with the San-ji (Three Selfs) Spirit.
We believe it is important to develop a climate in which every single person continues learning.

We believe that the ability to think, the ability to execute, and the ability to involve other people are important specific skills that employees should acquire. We have therefore systematized them by expressing them as skills required by Canon MJ.
This permits each employee to confirm their position and get a picture of growth they have achieved after joining the company. We aim to have employees master theories on individual skills in training sessions and other opportunities, acquire the skills through daily on-the-job training, and ultimately to harness them as organizational strengths.

To develop globally competitive human resources, we implement the Asia Trainee Program, in which we send young employees to the Canon Group's overseas subsidiaries in Asia for language and practical training. The goal of this program is to foster professionals who are familiar with the local languages, cultures, and business customs in other Asian countries. This is a training program of Canon Inc., which is aimed at turning trainees from the Group into strong candidates for future overseas assignments.

A career counseling service provided by career consultants qualified by the national government

Age group-specific career training, personal interviews by career consultants, and career training for managers
Career training for managers for acquiring the skills to support subordinates

Career interviews by immediate superiors

It is important to be proactive in planning one's own career development. At the Canon MJ Group, we encourage employees to boldly take on new positions. We also implement the Job Opening Bulletin System (JOBS), an in-house recruiting program aimed at activating human resources in the Group.