"人権デューデリジェンスとは　日本企業は対応遅れ," 28 June 2026

"Unofficial Japanese-to-English translation by Business and Human Rights Centre"

Human rights due diligence (human rights DD) is the process by which companies identify and address the risk of human rights abuses within their own operations and supply chains. The range of human rights risks subject to due diligence is broad, including forced labour, child labour, discrimination and harassment...

The European Union plans to require companies to conduct human rights due diligence by 2029, with the obligation being phased in according to company size...

Japanese companies have been slow to respond. According to a survey conducted by PwC Consulting of Japanese companies with annual revenues of ¥20 billion or more in 2025, 56% of respondents had not undertaken human rights due diligence, representing a majority of the companies surveyed...