Sony’s Views on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

The core responsibility of the Sony Group to society is to pursue the enhancement of corporate value through innovation and sound business practices. The Sony Group recognizes that its businesses have direct and indirect impact on the societies in which it operates. Sound business practices require that business decisions give due consideration to the interests of Sony stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, business partners, local communities and other organizations. The Sony Group will endeavor to conduct its business accordingly.

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Stakeholders

Shareholders

Environment

Products and services through innovation

Customers
Employees
Suppliers

Other organizations Sound business practices

Local communities Business partners About CSR Report 2005

Sony places a high priority on ensuring accurate disclosure and effective communications with its stakeholders. Sony published environmental reports in 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2001. In light of the increasing attention given to companies’ social accountability, in 2002 Sony published its first Social and Environmental Report. In 2003, Sony widened the scope of information on its corporate social responsibility described in the report and renamed it the “CSR Report.” Sony’s CSR Report 2005 is the third using this format.
Reporting Scope and Period

Units of Measurement

This report summarizes Sony Group CSR activities worldwide during fiscal 2004 (the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2004 and ended on March 31, 2005). It also includes reporting on some material activities, such as major organizational changes and incidents, up to July 1, 2005.

In principle, the units of measurement used in this report are written out in the body of the text, with symbolic notation used in graphs, charts and diagrams.
Symbols are used to write chemical formulas in the text.
Carbon dioxide is written as CO2.

Sony Group and Company Names

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In this report, the term “Sony” refers to the Sony Group, while
“Sony Corporation” refers to the parent company. The Sony
Group includes Sony Corporation and all consolidated subsidiaries in which Sony Corporation holds a capital stake of more than
50%. However, some of the captions and other data included are from joint ventures, such as ST Liquid Crystal Display Corporation
(Japan), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., and others, in which Sony holds a capital stake of 50%, and other companies using the Sony trademark.

Environmental Data
Reporting scope for data from sites: Sites certified under ISO
14001 as of March 31, 2004. (See page 46.)
• Data for certain ISO 14001-certified sites overseas has not been included in totals, while totals do contain data from certain non-certified sites that provided such data voluntarily.
• Data included is for fiscal 2004. However, data from certain sites includes estimates.
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