President's Address at Company Initiation Ceremony (summarized version)

Good morning to all our new employees. Let me congratulate you on joining Nissan
Chemical Industries.
I am very glad that 32 new associates have joined us today. On behalf of the Group's 2,300 staff members, I would like to bid you a cordial welcome.
As president and a senior associate in the real world, I'm going to make three points that I
want you to keep in mind as goals, as you have taken your first steps into the real world. The first point is to be faithful.
Our Company has a tradition, a business culture of placing great value on being faithful and honest. As workers at a chemical company, all of us, whether in engineering or administrative divisions, are involved in science and chemicals. Science and chemicals are based on the laws of nature. Cut corners and gaps appear. Those gaps cannot be camouflaged. Please always remember this, in addition to compliance and high ethical standards expected of business people, which should be matters of course. Understand that achievements come our way only when we work as hard as we can in a way that is faithful and honest.
The second point is that change is progress. This has been my personal belief since joining the Company. Companies achieve growth and development through innovation. Innovation, however, never occurs by simply doing what was done before. To achieve innovation, we must question the status quo and turn it upside down. That takes tremendous effort. However, you are young and sensitive, and I'm sure that you have the energy to achieve innovation. I hope you will take up the challenge.
The third point is to like your job. Five to seven years after I joined the company, I wondered whether my job is my mission. I thought it over, but was not able to find an answer. I decided to continue to do my job until I got to like it. The key to making your job your mission and overcoming difficulties is to develop a fondness for your job. I ask you to do your job diligently and develop a liking for it.

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Extra effort is the difference between good and great. Think about the difference between good and great, and continue to make an extra effort to do a great job.
Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the founder of the Company, is said to have talked his father into letting him to study chemistry, instead of becoming a doctor working at a public clinic, his family business, with the argument that medicine saves individual patients one by one but chemistry saves everyone. His decision was based on his determination to benefit society and help people in trouble. Dr. Takamine founded Tokyo Jinzo Hiryo, Japan's first chemical fertilizer manufacturer. However, chemical fertilizer was not recognized in society then, and selling it was extremely difficult. The Company was at risk of being dissolved. Still, he did not give up and continued his efforts to win acceptance for chemical fertilizer. Consumption increased, and the Company made great contributions to improving the productivity of agriculture.
We have overcome many crises, and this has made us what we are today.
As people involved in chemistry, we need be like Dr. Takamine and have the conviction that chemistry saves everyone, and to be determined to unite in our efforts to overcome crises, whatever they may be.
I would like to close this address by saying that I want to create with you "a company that contributes to human survival and development," as our corporate vision says, and lay the foundations for Nissan Chemical Industries for the next 100 years. I hope your life at the
Company will prove to be meaningful.

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