Industrial sector: 50 businesses
Breweries, tobacco manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, starch and
saccharified products, dairy industry, soft drink, baking industry, beet sugar, frozen
foods, vegetable oil, pastries, sugar refining, meat processing, flour milling, coffee,
convenience foods, soy sauce, canning, mayonnaise and dressing, iron and steel,
chemical industry, paper manufacturing, cement, electronics and electrical equipment,
auto parts, automobile, mining, lime manufacturing, rubber, dyeing, aluminium, flat
glass, glass bottle, auto body, electric wire and cable, bearing, industrial machinery,
copper and brass, construction equipment, limestone mining, sanitary equipment,
machine tool, petroleum development, industrial vehicles, construction, housing
production, shipbuilding, marine equipment, rolling stock, boating
Commercial and other sector: 32 businesses
Banking, life insurance, damage insurance, telecommunications, telecom service,
commercial broadcasting, NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation), cable broadcasting,
satellite broadcasting, schools, co-op, processed foods wholesale, supermarket,
convenience store, department store, household appliance retailer, do-it-yourself
industry, information services, chain drug store, trading company, liquefied petroleum
gas, leasing, warehousing, refrigerated warehouse, hotel, international hotel, domestic
hotel, automobile service, real estate, industrial waste management, newspaper, pet
retailing
Transport sector: 17 businesses
Ship owner, trucking, scheduled airline, coastal shipping, passenger ships, taxi,
bus, private railroads, JR East Japan, JR West Japan, JR Tokai, port transportation, JR
Cargo, JR Kyushu, JR Hokkaido, transportation, JR Shikoku
Energy conversion sector: 4 businesses
Petroleum, electricity, gas, power producer and supplier
Total: 103 businesses
NOTE: In revising this Plan (March 2008), the calculations of reduction effects by
the voluntary action plans have been conducted concerning 85 out of these 103
businesses Industrial sector: 49 businesses, commercial and other sector: 19
businesses, transport sector: 14 businesses, energy conversion sector: 3 businesses .
The other 18 businesses have been excluded from the calculations because concerned
governmental councils or similar bodies did not confirm their formulation of new plans
or quantification of qualitative targets before the calculations by the Government
(February 8, 2008).
These voluntary action plans by business operators have thus far produced results and the voluntary action
plans of Nippon Keidanren are, in particular, playing a central role in countermeasures in the industrial
community. The advantages of a voluntary instrument include the ease of selection of superior countermeasures
for each actor based on its originality and ingenuity, the likelihood of providing incentives to pursue aggressive
targets, and no procedural costs for both the Government and implementing actors. It is expected that these
advantages will be further exploited in voluntary action plans by business operators.