Corporate Governance

Our Basic Stance

Anritsu is striving to upgrade its decision-making system and create an environment in which corporate governance can function effectively to enable a flexible and speedy response to changes in the operating environment and continuously raise corporate value.

Anritsu is now working on the reinforcement of corporate governance from the following standpoints.

1. Enhancing management transparency
2. Disclosing appropriate and timely information
3. Reinforcing check and balance functions
4. Reinforcing management supervision functions

Anritsu upholds "sincerity, harmony, and enthusiasm" as the company philosophy to fulfill our social missions. With this philosophy in mind, we will continue to introduce appropriate and necessary measures in order to create a corporate culture that values rights and interests of all the stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, and employees of the company, and develop and strengthen the in-house governance system.

Anritsu's Governance Structure

Anritsu has a corporate governance system centered on the Board of Directors and the Board of Corporate Auditors.

The Board of Directors has a small number of people to facilitate prompt decision-making. It discusses matters for resolution and reports, and also holds free discussions of medium-to-long-term management issues.

Anritsu also has the Compensation Advisory Committee which is an advisory body to the Board of Directors. It deliberates the compensation system and specific evaluations of directors and executive officers. The majority of its members are from outside the Company, thus ensuring transparency.

Important matters related to business execution are deliberated upon and resolved at the Management Strategy Conference, which is chaired by the president. Matters to be resolved at Board of Directors meetings are discussed in advance at the Management Strategy Conference to enhance the deliberation. The Management Strategy Conference is held once or twice each month.

The Board of Corporate Auditors, composed of two fulltime corporate auditors and two outside corporate auditors, conducts audits in accordance with audit policies determined by the Board of Corporate Auditors.

The full-time corporate auditors work to gather information through active participation in important internal meetings including Board of Directors Meetings and the Management Strategy Conference, while auditing group companies in Japan and overseas.

For internal audit, the Global Audit Department is working to reinforce check and balance functions over business operations, and has functions to strengthen auditing functions for group companies.

Anritsu's Governance Structure