Basic ApproachBack to Top

The TOPPAN Group was founded in 1900 by a team of three printing engineers from the Ministry of Finance Printing Bureau, now the National Printing Bureau of Japan. The founders wished to bring the benefits of state-of-the-art Erhöht relief printing technology to the development of society and culture. Over the twelve decades since, the technology venture launched by those ambitious young entrepreneurs has grown into a family of businesses that create value for society by addressing various issues. Innovation creation has been part of the Group’s DNA since its foundation.

As a technology-oriented innovator, we value our employees as human capital, or what we call precious “human assets.” We are convinced that maximizing the value of human assets will generate human-led innovation that drives our business growth. Our managerial principle has been “management with respect for human beings,” or management that values and makes the most of human assets as value creators. Mindful of how deeply we depend on our employees, we strive to develop human assets that will go on to create more social value. We are developing working environments and a corporate culture ideal for the sustainable growth of individuals and TOPPAN as an organization that contributes to society.

We believe that we can create social value when our employees create products and services that support the well-being of society. We nurture workplaces where diverse human assets can work vigorously, earnestly, and with strong motivation without mental stresses or challenges.

Our human-centric management, with its focus on well-being, is a virtuous cycle that begins with the creation of social value. This focus brings a sense of social contribution to human assets and motivates them to grow. And our growing human assets will create the next value for society. To sustain this cycle, we are implementing human capital initiatives in alignment with business strategies.

Our goal is to foster a corporate culture that embraces continuous challenge and motivates employees to adapt to change quickly and flexibly. Towards that end, we are developing diverse human assets and work styles, safe and secure workplaces, and a culture and environments that encourage employees to take on challenges.

Human Asset Development ProgramsBack to Top

The Human Resource Development Center in the Personnel & Labor Relations Division at TOPPAN Holdings Inc. coordinates with persons in charge of human asset development across departments throughout the Group to institute personnel training programs. These programs are organized systematically around TOPPAN UNIVERSITY, a platform that strives to foster leaders and support the skill and career enhancement of employees through basic and special programs, leader development programs, and personal empowerment programs. The center deploys the Human Resource Development Laboratory (HRDL) as an R&D base to study, research, and verify ideal programs for personnel innovation that inspire self-transformation and expand individual potential and abilities to create new value.

Annual employee questionnaires on personnel development measures have been organized at TOPPAN Holdings since fiscal 2012. Employees’ appetite for learning, evaluations of the measures currently practiced, and opinions on workplace support for learning have been collected and shared with all of the officers as important data to be used in the design of new development programs. Of 9,163 employee respondents in fiscal 2023 (RR 86%), 7,642 (83.4%) evaluated personnel measures as favorable.

Systematic Human Asset Development Programs

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TOPPAN’s three-level approach to personnel development is shown in the figure on the right. At the first level, we seek continuous improvement in training programs through a PDCA cycle. At the second, the training effectiveness and efficiency gained at the first level are maximized with human resource (HR) technology and various other technologies. At the third, we study, research, and verify ideal methods to stimulate human asset innovation.

Three-level Approach to Human Asset Development

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Supporting Employee Career DevelopmentBack to Top

We operate an annual Challenging Job System, a program that promotes self-directed career development by enhancing the autonomy and independence of employees and nourishing a problem-solving, can-do mindset. This system encourages every regular employee to consider their own career aspirations and develop skill-enhancement plans. By assigning human assets to positions suited to their individual motivations and qualifications, the system energizes each organization and reinforces TOPPAN as a whole through optimized personnel positioning across the Group. This system also gives employees periodic opportunities to exchange opinions with superiors on their career- and skill-enhancement plans. In parallel, in-house staff recruitment systems have been put in place to provide every person in the workforce with an equal opportunity for skill enhancement. Under our Job Challenge Program, for example, employees can apply for positions of their choosing at any time of year.

Fostering Managerial TalentBack to Top

TOPPAN is systematically nurturing human assets with the experience and competence necessary to occupy managerial positions with a view to sustaining and enhancing our organizational competitiveness.

A wide variety of programs have been arranged to foster and pool talent that will drive our business portfolio transformation. Seamless rank-based training programs are organized to nurture personnel with the qualities of future leaders, both male and female, across all age groups.

Through these systematic programs, we continue to develop human assets who are ready to succeed senior management. The fostered managerial talent will spearhead the reinforcement of a management structure that addresses business shifts and secures the sustainable development and management stability of the Group.

Fostering Human Assets Active in the DX ArenaBack to Top

TOPPAN is enriching training platforms focused on the dissemination of digital knowledge and skills to expand the DX skills of human assets across departments and jobs throughout the Group. We nurture an organizational culture that deeply values continuous learning in the recognition that constant self-improvement and deeper knowledge beyond the expectations of customers will be key in the digital era.

A learning platform for subscription-based training on digital technology has been developed to keep human assets constantly up to date on the latest digital knowledge necessary for their individual jobs and career plans. We also provide employees with the opportunity to train for Microsoft Azure certifications, as well as cloud-service training programs to equip employees with the skills required for Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications (run jointly with Amazon Web Services Inc., the world’s most broadly adopted cloud platform provider). Learning programs on AI and deep learning and courses for the acquisition of data science certifications have also been introduced since fiscal 2022. Our expanded digital educational curriculum is expected to foster personnel who will advance the digital transformation.

Enhancing DX Skills based on Digital Literacy

Fostering Human Assets Active in the SX ArenaBack to Top

Since 2013 TOPPAN has been organizing training programs to foster human assets adept in sustainable transformation (SX) as members of a group of corporations that create social value and contribute to a sustainable society through extensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.

We continue to dispatch employees on fieldwork programs in Fukushima Prefecture, an area affected by the Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake. In total, 1,925 employees have visited Fukushima over the last 10 years. We also run the Social Innovation Program and Kanosei Art Project (kanosei means “potential” in Japanese) on an ongoing basis to develop innovative businesses with a balanced approach to solving social issues and creating economic value. The human assets fostered in these initiatives now sustain our SX businesses.

SX Human Asset Fostering Programs

Fostering Human Assets Active in the Global ArenaBack to Top

TOPPAN has been hiring non-Japanese individuals and arranging frequent personnel exchanges between Japanese and overseas Group companies as part of an overall effort to adapt to more globalized business operations.

We believe that human assets can thrive in global business arenas when they are business literate and have the requisite business communication skills and overseas experience, along with advanced language skills and cross-cultural competencies. We work to visualize qualified personnel and formulate training plans to nurture them.

The annual Groupwide language-proficiency assessment identifies the global business potential of the TOPPAN workforce and estimates how many personnel should be assigned to the international operations of the Group. Based on the assessment results, we are fostering global personnel through a human resource (HR) system that encourages employees to participate in various global business programs, acquire basic literacy and knowledge required for overseas business in fields such as accounting and finance, and gain experience outside of Japan via dispatch beyond borders.

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From a Rank-based Training Session

As part of their training, new employees take part in talk sessions with senior staff assigned outside of Japan to learn more about our overseas Group sites and global businesses. Videos of our workplaces and the lifestyles of TOPPAN personnel from around the world expand the trainee’s global horizons.

An expatriate staff member presenting video footage in a talk on his local life

An expatriate staff member presenting video footage in a talk on his local life

Structure for Fostering Global Human Assets

Developing Talent for New BusinessesBack to Top

TOPPAN organizes a variety of training programs to foster the knowledge, skills, and mindsets human assets need as they explore new businesses.

In a series of “Shaping the Future” programs, employees from companies within the Group co-work to develop innovative business models and create new value by combining competencies in their own businesses. The program for “New Business Innovation” cultivates corporate entrepreneurship among supervisors by taking a systematic learning approach to the development of new businesses. The “Next-generation Leaders Program” inspires managers to envision an ideal TOPPAN Group a decade into the future with scenario planning.

We also arrange fieldwork programs for managers to explore ways to spur innovative ideas. Fieldwork participants devise a business plan with the Art Innovation Framework™, a value creation method that seeks to transcend subjective thinking by applying the creative thinking of artists.

These programs have inspired the submission of 312 new business plan proposals to management, as of March 31, 2024. We will continue to nurture personnel capable of conceiving and actualizing new business ventures that bolster our business portfolio transformation.

Target Program No. of Participants (cumulative)
Managers Next-generation Leaders Program 278
Art Innovation Framework™ Training 1,161
Supervisors Program for New Business Innovation 537
Non-managerial staff Shaping the Future 1,955
Total 3,931

Research and Development at HRDLBack to Top

In April 2017 TOPPAN launched the Human Resource Development Laboratory (HRDL), an R&D base to study, research, verify, and implement ideal programs for personnel innovation. The fields of interest range from neuroscience and brain research to physiological condition analyses and business support technologies.

The HRDL applies interdisciplinary expert knowledge from outside of the Group to design original personnel development models that promote self-transformation and inspire individuals to fulfill and expand their potential and abilities. The research outputs are expected to spur TOPPAN’s brand new value creation.

The HRDL strives to produce original models by applying its advanced personnel-development approaches to the Group’s current training systems. The lab embraces sensitivity and non-verbal dimensions by transcending the verbalized dimensions in which conventional training programs are organized.

We believe that human assets can innovate and create new value when they are better able to recognize non-quantifiable cognitive attributes such as sensitivity and non-verbal understanding. We are forging ahead with medium- and long-term research and development projects in cooperation with outside experts.

Human Resource Development Laboratory

Systematic R&D at HRDL in 2024 (for innovative human asset development)
Dimensions Covered by HRDL
R&D Activities at HRDL
Program Launched in Concept & Outline Results
Neuroscience Research Group 2017
  • A program to apply neuroscience to human asset development, established with DAncing Einstein, Co., Ltd. Aims to develop talent necessary for corporate growth and a better society.
  • Designed a forefront brain science program that seeks to improve personal performance and communication skills by shedding new light on the mechanisms of human learning, behavior, emotions, and thinking; opened the program to client companies for a fee to share the expertise with wider society.
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    Forefront brain science program: 439 participants (total for 18 terms), Forefront brain science program—advanced: 146 participants (total for 6 terms), Mindfulness & stress management program: 307 participants (total for 13 terms)
  • Incorporated neuroscience knowledge into training sessions for new hires and personnel during their first three years of employment (attended by a total of 9,386 participants, as of July 2024).
  • Studied clues on the actions to take in response to new challenges; summarized the findings in a video and art installation for employees.
Physiological Condition Research Group 2017
  • A program to provide accurate knowledge and skills for sound mental and physical health, designed with Dr. Hideyuki Negoro of Harvard Medical School and Sorbonne University School of Medicine.
  • Gains in mental and physical health promote the health management of the Group by improving individual performance and enhancing efficiency.
  • Produced Around-the-clock Tips for Better Performance and Breath Control & Tips for Optimal Sleep, Exercise, and Diet, a series of self-care videos devised to help every Group employee look after their own mental and physical health; a total of 18,189 views (as of July 2024).
  • Developed a smartphone app that helps Group employees manage their own mental and physical health; used the app in rank-based training sessions for a total of 7,836 participants, from new hires to managers (as of June 2024); patented functions of this app as a health management system and health management method (Japan Patent No. 2019-213535).
  • Developed the 3D Stress Check & Support, a comprehensive system for businesses that automatically prescribes tailored support for individuals based on the results of mental-health risk screenings.
Technology Research Group 2020
  • Nurturing human assets who create new value by broadening human functions through technology and expanding individual potential and abilities.
  • Developed a business-plan creation support system that compares and proposes business models using a combination of AI and financial expertise, in 2021; incorporated the system into in-house programs for personnel training on new business creation in the same year.
  • Arranged a generative AI training program for fiscal 2024 hires in which the trainees use generative AI to devise solutions for social issues.
Sensitivity Research Group 2018
  • A program to unleash creativity and link it with innovation by enhancing sensitivity, designed with external research institutions specialized in the human senses. Researches spatial designs and develops programs to merge human sensitivity into business.
  • Held interactive employee workshops, in which participants worked with non-verbal dimensions such as smell, color, physical expression, sensitivity engineering, perception, and hearing.
Art Innovation Research Group 2018
  • Creating new value by fusing art, culture, and technology through a course established with Kyoto University. Seeks to formulate an innovative value-creation scheme to enhance creativity by transcending subjectivity through artists’ logic.
  • Developed the Art Innovation Framework™, a thinking method that systematizes the logic of artists to spur the generation of new ideas in business; made an animated video on this framework.
  • Arranged an Art Innovation Framework program for managers focused on approaches to transcending subjectivity for the creation of new value.
  • Implemented business ideas born from Art Innovation Framework programs as prototypes to be verified on a small scale.
  • Held internal seminars focused on the fusion of art, culture, and technology to create new value.
SDG Research Group 2019
  • A program designed with the Yoi-Otera (“good temples”) Research Institute for human asset development applying Buddhist principles to business. Incorporates Buddhist teachings into training to engender innovative ways of thinking about work, the value of a corporation, and the concept of being oneself.
  • Produced Buddhist Teachings in Business, an animated video to be viewed across the Group.
  • Organized online fieldwork programs to guide senior managers on virtual visits through the Zenko-ji temple in Nagano and the Koyasan sacred mountain in Wakayama, Japan. The participants learned about the meaning and significance of work and the roles required of senior management, with a thematic focus on the moral values of a corporation.
  • Held internal seminars hosted by monks to present Buddhist principles applicable to business scenarios.
Kanosei Art Project 2018
  • A project fostering next-generation leaders as part of development of a business model linking social benefit (greater independence of persons with disabilities) with economic benefit (Group revenues) using technologies that add value to the works of borderless artists.
  • Continued training programs in which new and experienced employees explored ways to add value to the works of borderless artists (attended by more than 3,300 participants since 2018).
  • Won the Grand Mécénat Award for the project at the Japan Mécénat Awards 2022 organized by the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts of Japan in 2022.
  • Selected 50 artworks to be shown at the 2024 exhibition, based on in-house votes cast by over 6,000 employees and officers in 2023.
  • Continued to hold borderless artwork exhibitions in Metapa™, a metaverse space.
  • Launched themed rooms at the Villa Fontaine Grand Haneda Airport hotel in collaboration with Sumitomo Fudosan Villa Fontaine Co., Ltd. Under a special plan, the hotel donates 3% of revenue from room charges to borderless artists to support their creations. Guests at the hotel are enjoying artworks installed in the themed rooms, along with corridors and elevator halls on several floors.
Airin Blue Project 2019
  • A project to remind people of the value of life by maintaining flowers at the final resting place of Airi Sato, a child who perished in the tsunami caused by the Tohoku Earthquake. The flowers signify the need for disaster preparedness and action when a disaster strikes.
  • Held an internal seminar on individual preparations to save lives; presented a lecture on the leadership required during disasters and disaster prevention activities.
Universe and Astronomy Research Group 2021
  • Applying insights from space science and astronomy to business for new value creation. Encourages employees to think on a macrocosmic scale, taking in the big picture and gaining deeper insights into future aspirations.
  • Developed the Space Innovation Framework™, a thinking method for new value creation.
  • Worked with the Philosophy Research Group on the utilization of the Space Innovation Framework for manager training with a view to fostering thinking skills that generate balanced perspectives and actions; organized training for new division managers to reaffirm two qualities required in a leadership candidate: a broad, long-term viewpoint and the personal principles of a frontrunner.
  • Held employee seminars on space science and culture.
Philosophy Research Group 2022
  • Exploring ways to leverage philosophical viewpoints in training programs, encourage human assets to apply philosophical insights to business, and apply philosophical principles for new services, solutions, and businesses.
  • Held training sessions for supervisors to foster inner wisdom (the ability to see the nature of things) and a clear understanding of a supervisor’s roles as a TOPPAN member that creates social value.
  • Held internal seminars on philosophical thinking oriented towards deeper questioning of the world in the pursuit of the essence of things.

An original self-care app to nurture physiological well-being

A Kanosei Art-themed hotel room

Space Innovation Framework™

TOPPAN Virtual Training CenterBack to Top

The TOPPAN Group leverages virtual reality and other forefront digital technologies for human asset development.

In 2021 we launched the TOPPAN Virtual Training Center as a global education platform that seamlessly connects digital and real spaces for coming generations. Every Group employee from across the world can visit this online hub to congregate with a diversity of people from within and outside of the Group. We seek to integrate knowledge and spur innovation by optimizing our digital training environment using advanced technology.

The training center operates two venues. The first is the virtual Koishikawa Head Office Building, an online space where visitors can experience virtual tours of Toppan Hall and the Printing Museum, Tokyo. The second is the Virtual Human Resource Development Laboratory (HRDL), an online facsimile of the real-world laboratory.

Employees can visit the Virtual HRDL to check the research results from the lab’s two projects and eight research groups and to learn the specialist knowledge of the HRDL researchers through in-house seminar videos and other materials. One series of videos describes the art, Buddhism, and space frameworks adopted for personnel innovation. Another prominent title is Around-the-clock Tips for Better Performance, an animated video to help human assets look after their own mental and physical health. The virtual laboratory also presents artworks from the Kanosei Art Project and the research outputs of trainees harnessing the findings of the eight research groups.

Real and virtual learning infrastructures are now available at TOPPAN. Group employees from around the world can tour our facilities remotely and catch up on the latest knowledge at any time and from any distance.

Training Programs with Digital TechnologyBack to Top

We have been upgrading our online training programs by leveraging digital technology in ways that transcend the mere substitution of face-to-face training. In fiscal 2021 we launched the TOPPAN Virtual Training Center to provide new hires with work experiences at web-based training sessions. A year later the center introduced training programs in the metaverse to facilitate virtual communication that feels more tangibly real. All new employees were invited to a Kawaguchi Plant VR Tour in the metaverse in fiscal 2023. Participants experienced workplace hazards from an operator’s point of view, as transmitted through standalone VR goggles. Embodied within realistic avatars of themselves, new hires shook hands with their virtual peers and gave high-fives in an experientially expanded communication space. TOPPAN’s online training has seen further advancements in fiscal 2024. Trainees now co-work and interact by sharing course materials in the metaverse.

The training outcomes have guided us towards more sophisticated uses of digital technology in other rank-based training programs.

Evaluation SystemBack to Top

TOPPAN evaluates Group employees on their behavior, performance, and capabilities and reflects the evaluation results in their grade promotions, salary revisions, bonuses, and performance-based pay.

Our “capability evaluation” assesses the actual capabilities of an employee and how well the employee has demonstrated those capabilities in comparison with the specific requirements defined in our grade system.

Our “behavior evaluation” assesses how well an employee has taken valuable actions based on our grade-based behavioral standards. We expect our employees to adapt to social and business changes by duly considering our Purpose & Values and the Conduct Guidelines. Our evaluations also focus on an employee’s positive actions in response to growing global issues, such as the realization of a sustainable society, adherence to diversity & inclusion principles, respect for human rights, sustainability practices, and social value creation.

Our “performance evaluation,” meanwhile, is based on a management-by-objective (MBO) system. Routine dialogues, such as one-on-one meetings held one or more times per quarter, allow both the supervisor and employee to assess the latter’s progress towards goal achievement. Once every six months we assess an employee’s performance, review the levels of goal achievement, reset individual/team goals, and formulate a new action plan to attain the renewed goals. This PDCA cycle backs up an employee’s efforts to achieve personal and team goals.

Our capability and behavioral evaluations systematically focus on more than just personal performance. Through these evaluations, we seek to improve employee competency, and ultimately corporate performance, by aligning expectations between management and employees regarding the actions, abilities, and skills to be acquired for individual growth. The evaluations are also designed to imbue employees with a sense of personal responsibility for corporate performance by reflecting divisional results into individual evaluations.

As another incentivization for employees, TOPPAN introduced a stock-based compensation system in fiscal 2023. In setting the number of shares awarded to employees, we have decided to base the compensation on the extent of their individual contributions to the attainment of the Medium Term Plan targets over the year. By linking their compensation with medium-to-long-term corporate and personal performance, we expect to bolster the motivation of employees to work towards corporate value enhancement.

Evaluation for Interval Evaluation on Details
Grade promotion Annual Capability Assess whether an employee has the required capacity to advance to the next grade
Salary revision Annual

Capability
Behavior
Performance

Assess how well an employee has demonstrated the abilities expected of their current grade over the past year and determine the abilities they will be expected to demonstrate over the next year
Bonus Semiannual Behavior
Performance
Assess the extent to which an employee has taken valuable actions and how completely the employee has achieved the goals set during the assessment period (semiannual assessment)
Performance-based pay Semiannual Behavior
Performance

Human Asset Development InitiativesBack to Top

Fiscal 2023 Data on Human Asset Development Programs (TOPPAN Group)
Program Outline No. of Participants (cumulative)
Rank-based programs A set of programs for acquiring the knowledge, skills, and mindsets employees will need in their careers, mainly for new postings. 4,857
Leader development programs A series of selective training programs to foster leaders of tomorrow, including a program for creating new businesses and a program for developing human assets active in global business arenas. 594
Personal empowerment programs A series of self-initiated programs that give Groupwide employees the choice of what they learn. Three learning styles are available. 7,254
TOPPAN Business School Diverse courses that cover wide-ranging subjects from basic knowledge and skills in business to advanced specialist skills. Offered in online-group and e-learning settings and in a course that dispatches trainees to business schools outside of the Group. 1,607
Manabi-hodai (all-you-can-learn buffet) e-learning library A subscription-based program with over 187 courses and no limits placed on the time or place of learning or how often the courses can be repeated. 3,208
Challenge School Correspondence-learning courses for acquiring business knowledge and skills. 2,439
Groupwide basic education E-learning programs to give every Group employee the opportunity to learn requisite business knowledge. 149,591
Human asset map for global business An annual language-proficiency assessment to gauge foreign language competency at the Groupwide level and to count and rank the human assets with high aptitude for global business. The top-scorers will be fostered under an upcoming mid-to-long-term development plan as personnel expected to be indispensable for the global growth of the Group. 1,664
Selective training on global business A program to equip employees with fundamental skills for global business such as linguistic aptitude, cross-cultural competency, and consensus building. 36
Trainee system A system to deploy young employees to overseas affiliates for one year of language immersion and practical training in day-to-day business activities, primarily to enhance their linguistic aptitude and cross-cultural competency. 90*
JICA Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers A trainee system to dispatch Group employees to emerging and developing countries. 17*
Short-term open programs at IMD A program to send employees involved in international business to short-term open courses at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD; one of the world’s top-ranked business schools) in Lausanne, Switzerland to acquire practical training in leadership, the tenacity required to follow through on projects to completion, and other capabilities required in global business. 19*
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Cumulative total since fiscal 2013
Data on DX Human Asset Development Programs (TOPPAN Group)
Program Outline No. of Participants (cumulative)
DX basic training E-learning program for essential DX knowledge and skills (video: about 6 hours in 7 sessions). 8,889
Training for AWS certification Focused on basic-level knowledge and skills for employees seeking to become AWS-certified cloud practitioners. Trainees come from digital, sales, planning, and technology departments. Participants: 3,741
Certified employees: 2,252
Training for acquiring Microsoft Azure certifications Basic-level training on cloud knowledge and skills for employees seeking to obtain the Azure Fundamentals AZ900 certification. Trainees come from digital, sales, planning, and technology departments. Participants: 166
Certified employees: 135
Training for Generative AI Test certification Helps employees become business translators who can integrate digital technologies into practices based on in-depth understanding of technologies (e.g., AI, deep learning) and applications in business. Participants: 322
Certified employees: 209
Training for Data Scientist certifications Helps employees acquire digital literacy and knowledge to become qualified data scientists by acquiring knowledge and skills in data science, including data processing, machine learning, data analysis, engineering, mathematical statistics, and business. Participants: 352
Certified employees: 106
Udemy / Aidemy MOOCs focused on AI utilization, data analytics, and global communication skills for department-based training and personal empowerment. Employees acquire up-to-date, high-quality knowledge and skills through the latest platforms. Udemy participants: 4,945
Aidemy participants: 427
Growth X marketing A one-year, cross-departmental program for the latest knowledge and practical skills across digital marketing. Participants: 422
Human Asset Development Expenditure (TOPPAN Inc.)
Expenditure on Training, etc. per Employee
Fiscal 2019 64,654 yen
Fiscal 2020 53,637 yen
Fiscal 2021 56,070 yen
Fiscal 2022 64,937 yen
Fiscal 2023 76,188 yen
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Consolidated figures for Japan (covering 51% of the consolidated total)
・Average human asset development expenditure per employee: 33,106 yen
・Average training hours in human asset development programs per employee: 41.6 hours
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Figures for TOPPAN Inc.
・Average human asset development expenditure per employee: 76,188 yen
・Average training hours in human asset development programs per employee: 72.2 hours
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Both in fiscal 2023
Participants in Leader Development Programs
(Cumulative total from fiscal 2011 to 2023, TOPPAN Group)
Level Program Total (cumulative)
Management Class Business innovation (intermediate/advanced) 337
Management literacy (advanced) 418
Management literacy (intermediate) 1,435
Total 2,190
Supervisors Business innovation (elementary) 927
Management literacy (elementary) 1,002
Total 1,929
General employees Business innovation (basic) 3,340
Total 3,340
Employees at all levels Global leader development 301
Total 301
Sum total 7,760

Information on Employees at the TOPPAN GroupBack to Top

No. of Employees (Four TOPPAN Group companies)
Company Sex Total Employees Management Class Supervisors Sum Total Employees Part-time Workers Dispatched Staff
TOPPAN Holdings Inc. Male 1,292 421 302 1,676 6 63
Female 384 54 111
TOPPAN Inc. Male 5,797 1,773 1,323 7,972 96 648
Female 2,175 109 403
TOPPAN Edge Inc. Male 1,989 488 617 3,137 1,408 1,949
Female 1,148 40 181
TOPPAN Digital Inc. Male 621 156 153 796 7 52
Female 175 5 44

Announcing the Mid-career Hiring Rate

TOPPAN Inc. discloses the ratio of mid-career hires (both outside recruitment and indefinite-term employment of persons previously on fixed-term contracts) to the total number of regular employees in accordance with the Japanese Act on Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Measures, and of Employees, and Enrichment of Their Working Lives.

Mid-career Hiring Rate (TOPPAN Inc.)
Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023
24% 29% 29% 34%

Publication date: September 30, 2024

Japan Consolidated

No. of Employees
Sex Directors Executive Officers Total Employees Management Class Supervisors Sum Total Employees
Fiscal 2022 Male 371 45 27,769 5,318 5,442 35,049
Female 17 1 7,280 345 993
Percentage of women 4.4% 2.2% 20.8% 6.1% 15.4%
Fiscal 2023 Male 390 33 27,226 5,303 5,317 34,750
Female 17 1 7,524 376 1,060
Percentage of women 4.2% 2.9% 21.7% 6.6% 16.6%
No. of Recruits
Sex New Graduates & Mid-career Recruitment
Fiscal 2022 Male 1,044
Female 646
Fiscal 2023 Male 1,169
Female 666
Turnover
Sex Total Turnover Resignations for Personal Reasons
Fiscal 2022 Male 1,378 864
Female 467 367
Fiscal 2023 Male 1,645 1,132
Female 515 425
Employees by Age-group
Sex Age-group Total Employees Management Class Supervisors
Fiscal 2022 Male 1. Below 30 years old 3,829 1 5
2. 30-50 years old 13,565 2,498 4,226
3. Over 50 years old 10,373 2,819 1,211
Female 1. Below 30 years old 2,075 0 6
2. 30-50 years old 3,540 207 834
3. Over 50 years old 1,667 138 153
Fiscal 2023 Male 1. Below 30 years old 3,993 1 25
2. 30-50 years old 12,539 2,478 3,975
3. Over 50 years old 10,694 2,825 1,317
Female 1. Below 30 years old 2,286 0 6
2. 30-50 years old 3,399 230 884
3. Over 50 years old 1,839 145 170
No. of Employees by Nationality (Four TOPPAN Group companies)
Company Indicator Nationality Sex Total Employees Management Class Supervisors
TOPPAN Holdings Inc. No. of employees Japan Male 1,285 419 301
Female 379 53 110
China Male 3 0 1
Female 4 1 1
Other Male 4 2 0
Female 1 0 0
Percentage of total Japan Male 99.46% 99.52% 99.67%
Female 98.70% 98.15% 99.10%
China Male 0.23% 0.00% 0.33%
Female 1.04% 1.85% 0.90%
Other Male 0.31% 0.48% 0.00%
Female 0.26% 0.00% 0.00%
TOPPAN Inc. No. of employees Japan Male 5,775 1,770 1,318
Female 2,156 110 400
China Male 12 1 4
Female 16 0 2
Other Male 10 2 1
Female 3 0 1
Percentage of total Japan Male 99.62% 99.83% 99.62%
Female 99.13% 100.00% 99.26%
China Male 0.21% 0.06% 0.30%
Female 0.74% 0.00% 0.50%
Other Male 0.17% 0.11% 0.08%
Female 0.14% 0.00% 0.25%
TOPPAN Edge Inc. No. of employees Japan Male 1,983 488 617
Female 1,139 40 181
China Male 3 0 0
Female 7 0 0
Other Male 3 0 0
Female 2 0 0
Percentage of total Japan Male 99.70% 100.00% 100.00%
Female 99.22% 100.00% 100.00%
China Male 0.15% 0.00% 0.00%
Female 0.61% 0.00% 0.00%
Other Male 0.15% 0.00% 0.00%
Female 0.17% 0.00% 0.00%
TOPPAN Digital Inc. No. of employees Japan Male 614 156 151
Female 167 5 41
China Male 5 0 1
Female 6 0 1
Other Male 2 0 1
Female 2 0 2
Percentage of total Japan Male 98.87% 100.00% 98.69%
Female 95.43% 100.00% 93.18%
China Male 0.81% 0.00% 0.65%
Female 3.43% 0.00% 2.27%
Other Male 0.32% 0.00% 0.65%
Female 1.14% 0.00% 4.55%

Overseas Consolidated

No. of Employees
Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023
Region Sex Directors Total Employees Management Class Sum Total Employees Directors Total Employees Management Class Sum Total Employees
Asia (excluding Japan) Male 146 8,845 972 14,548 207 9,078 923 14,656
Female 11 5,703 409 13 5,578 354
North America Male 27 1,312 229 2,043 23 1,339 207 2,053
Female 5 731 95 6 714 99
Europe Male 46 1,414 176 1,944 47 1,295 150 1,802
Female 9 530 72 9 507 78
Latin America Male 0 88 8 104 0 93 10 112
Female 0 16 5 0 19 7
Middle East Male 0 3 1 6 1 172 34 232
Female 0 3 2 0 60 14
Africa Male 0 10 0 28 4 24 5 41
Female 6 18 1 1 17 3
Overseas consolidated Male 219 11,672 1,386 18,673 282 12,001 1,329 18,896
Female 31 7,001 584 29 6,895 555
Percentage of women 12.4% 37.5% 29.6% 9.3% 36.5% 29.5%
No. of Recruits
New Graduates & Mid-career Recruitment
Region Sex Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023
Asia (excluding Japan) Male 2,488 1,432
Female 1,386 1,088
Europe Male 167 232
Female 85 92
North America Male 335 256
Female 159 94
Latin America Male 17 9
Female 1 7
Middle East Male 1 34
Female 2 9
Africa Male 2 13
Female 5 3
Overseas consolidated Male 3,010 1,976
Female 1,638 1,213
Turnover
Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023
Region Sex Total Turnover Resignations for Personal Reasons Total Turnover Resignations for Personal Reasons
Asia (excluding Japan) Male 1,774 1,216 1,358 1,012
Female 1,222 825 1,090 927
Europe Male 161 115 182 120
Female 64 56 81 66
North America Male 306 212 330 160
Female 132 98 168 54
Latin America Male 3 2 4 2
Female 3 1 5 4
Middle East Male 0 0 21 15
Female 0 0 6 5
Africa Male 2 1 4 4
Female 0 0 1 1
Overseas consolidated Male 2,246 1,546 1,899 1,313
Female 1,421 980 1,351 1,057
Employees by Age-group
Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023
Region Sex Age-group Total Employees Management Class Total Employees Management Class
Asia (excluding Japan) Male 1. Below 30 years old 2,111 15 2,135 5
2. 30-50 years old 5,177 702 5,639 655
3. Over 50 years old 1,156 256 1,304 263
Female 1. Below 30 years old 1,334 11 1,757 7
2. 30-50 years old 2,909 310 3,243 257
3. Over 50 years old 513 87 578 90
Europe Male 1. Below 30 years old 185 2 163 0
2. 30-50 years old 862 111 776 89
3. Over 50 years old 367 63 356 61
Female 1. Below 30 years old 122 7 126 7
2. 30-50 years old 306 53 275 56
3. Over 50 years old 102 12 106 15
North America Male 1. Below 30 years old 181 6 168 2
2. 30-50 years old 544 75 541 65
3. Over 50 years old 587 148 630 140
Female 1. Below 30 years old 85 1 60 1
2. 30-50 years old 282 37 266 34
3. Over 50 years old 364 57 388 64
Latin America Male 1. Below 30 years old 28 0 30 0
2. 30-50 years old 54 8 52 8
3. Over 50 years old 6 0 11 2
Female 1. Below 30 years old 5 0 4 0
2. 30-50 years old 10 4 13 5
3. Over 50 years old 1 1 2 2
Middle East Male 1. Below 30 years old 0 0 37 3
2. 30-50 years old 2 0 118 23
3. Over 50 years old 1 1 17 8
Female 1. Below 30 years old 1 0 5 1
2. 30-50 years old 1 1 50 13
3. Over 50 years old 1 1 5 0
Africa Male 1. Below 30 years old 2 0 9 0
2. 30-50 years old 5 0 10 3
3. Over 50 years old 3 0 5 2
Female 1. Below 30 years old 1 0 1 0
2. 30-50 years old 13 0 10 2
3. Over 50 years old 4 1 6 1
Overseas consolidated Male 1. Below 30 years old 2,507 23 2,542 10
2. 30-50 years old 6,644 896 7,136 843
3. Over 50 years old 2,120 468 2,323 476
Female 1. Below 30 years old 1,548 19 1,953 16
2. 30-50 years old 3,521 405 3,857 367
3. Over 50 years old 985 159 1,085 172

Consolidated Total

No. of employees
Sex Directors Executive Officers Total Employees Management Class Supervisors Sum Total Employees
Fiscal 2022 Male 590 45 39,441 6,704 5,442 53,722
Female 48 1 14,281 929 993
Percentage of women 7.5% 2.2% 26.6% 12.2% 15.4%
Fiscal 2023 Male 672 33 39,227 6,632 5,317 53,646
Female 46 1 14,419 931 1,060
Percentage of women 6.4% 2.9% 26.9% 12.3% 16.6%
No. of Recruits
Sex New Graduates & Mid-career Recruitment
Fiscal 2022 Male 4,054
Female 2,284
Fiscal 2023 Male 3,145
Female 1,879
Turnover
Sex Total Turnover Resignations for Personal Reasons
Fiscal 2022 Male 3,624 2,410
Female 1,888 1,347
Fiscal 2023 Male 3,544 2,445
Female 1,866 1,482
Employees by Age-group
Sex Age-group Total Employees Management Class Supervisors
Fiscal 2022 Male 1. Below 30 years old 6,336 24 5
2. 30-50 years old 20,209 3,394 4,226
3. Over 50 years old 12,493 3,287 1,211
Female 1. Below 30 years old 3,623 19 6
2. 30-50 years old 7,061 612 834
3. Over 50 years old 2,652 297 153
Fiscal 2023 Male 1. Below 30 years old 6,535 11 25
2. 30-50 years old 19,675 3,320 3,975
3. Over 50 years old 13,017 3,301 1,317
Female 1. Below 30 years old 4,239 16 6
2. 30-50 years old 7,256 598 884
3. Over 50 years old 2,924 317 170

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