Yokogawa has announced that it joined the United Nations Global Compact on 5 January 2009. The Global Compact is a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative consisting of ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption. Yokogawa is the 76th participant in Japan.

This initiative was proposed in 1999 by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an address to the World Economic Forum, and officially launched in July 2000. It asks companies to support and put into practice ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and ant…