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Statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organization about the relevance of sustainability to the organization and its strategy.

Message from CEO

Description of key impacts, risks, and opportunities.

Message from CEO

Name of the organization.

Advantest Group

Primary brands, products, and/or services.

Business Fields

Operational structure of the organization, including main divisions, operating companies, subsidiaries, and joint ventures.

Advantest Group

Location of organization’s headquarters.

Advantest Group

Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries with either major operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability issues covered in the report.

Advantest Group

Nature of ownership and legal form.

Corporate Overview

Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served, and types of customers/beneficiaries).

Business Fields

Scale of the reporting organization, including:

• Number of employees;
• Number of operations;
• Net sales (for private sector organizations) or net revenues (for public sector organizations);
• Total capitalization broken down in terms of debt and equity (for private sector organizations); and Quantity of products or services provided.

Corporate Overview

In addition to the above, reporting organizations are encouraged to provide additional information, as appropriate, such as:

• Total assets;
• Beneficial ownership (including identity and percentage of ownership of largest shareholders);and
• Breakdowns by country/region of the following: (Sales/revenues by countries/regions that make up 5 percent or more of total revenues; Costs by countries/regions that make up 5 percent or more of total revenues; and Employees.

Financial Overview

Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size, structure, or ownership including:

Awards received in the reporting period.

Reporting period for information provided.

Editorial Note

Date of most recent previous report

Editorial Note

Reporting cycle

Editorial Note

Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents.

Editorial Note

Process for defining report content, including:

Editorial Note

Boundary of the report (e.g., countries, divisions, subsidiaries, leased facilities, joint ventures, suppliers)

Editorial Note

State any specific limitations on the scope

Editorial Note

Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced operations, and other entities that can significantly affect comparability from period to period and/or between organizations.

Editorial Note

Data measurement techniques and the bases of calculations, including assumptions and techniques underlying estimations applied to the compilation of the Indicators and other information in the report.

Editorial Note

Explanation of the effect of any re-statements of information provided in earlier reports, and the reasons for such re-statement (e.g., mergers/acquisitions, change of base years/periods, nature of business, measurement methods).

None

Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope, boundary, or measurement methods applied in the report.

Editorial Note

Table identifying the location of the Standard Disclosures in the report. Identify the page numbers or web links where the following can be found:

• Strategy and Analysis 1.1 - 1.2;
• Organizational Profile 2.1 - 2.10;
• Report Parameters 3.1 - 3.13;
• Governance, Commitments, and Engagement 4.1 - 4.17;
• Disclosure of Management Approach, per category;
• Core Performance Indicators;
• Any GRI Additional Indicators that were included; and
• Any GRI Sector Supplement Indicators included in the report.

GRI Guidelines
Comparison Chart

Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report. If not included in the assurance report accompanying the sustainability report, explain the scope and basis of any external assurance provided. Also explain the relationship between the reporting organization and the assurance provider(s).

Independent Review of
CSR Report 2012

Governance structure of the organization, including committees under the highest governance body responsible for specific tasks, such as setting strategy or organizational oversight.
Describe the mandate and composition (including number of independent members and/or nonexecutive members) of the highest governance body and its committees, and indicate each individual’s position and any direct responsibility for economic, social, and environmental performance.
Report the percentage of individuals by gender within the organization’s highest governance body and its committees, broken down by age group and minority group membership and other indicators of diversity.
Refer to definitions of age and minority group in the Indicator Protocol for LA13 and note that the information reported under 4.1 can be cross referenced against that reported for LA13.

Corporate Governance

Environmental
Management

Indicate whether the Chair of the highestgovernance body is also an executive officer (and, if so, their function within the organization’s management and the reasons for this arrangement).

Corporate Governance

For organizations that have a unitary board structure, state the number and gender of members of the highest governance body that are independent and/or non-executive members. State how the organization defines 'independent' and ‘non-executive'. This element applies only for organizations that have unitary board structures.
See the glossary for a definition of 'independent'.

Corporate Governance

Processes in place for the highest governance body to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided.

Corporate Governance

Internally developed statements of mission or values, codes of conduct, and principles relevant to economic, environmental, and social performance and the status of their implementation.

• Explain the degree to which these
• Are applied across the organization in different regions and department/units; and
• Relate to internationally agreed standards.

Message from CEO

Advantest's CSR

Explanation of whether and how the precautionary approach or principle is addressed by the organization.

Risk Management

Quality Management

Environmental Risk and
Chemical Substance
Management

Disclosure on Management Approach

• Economic Performance;
• Market Presence; and
• Indirect Economic Impacts.

Message from CEO

Advantest's CSR

Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organization’s activities due to climate change.

Environmental
Accounting Results

Significant financial assistance received from government.

None

Policy, practices, and proportion of spending on locally-based suppliers at significant locations of operation.

Fair Trade

Procurement Policy

Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind, or pro bono engagement.

Social Contribution
Activities

Environmental
Contribution Activities

Understanding and describing significant indirect economic impacts, including the extent of impacts.

Social Contribution
Activities

Environmental
Contribution Activities

Disclosure on Management Approach

• Materials;
• Energy;
• Water;
• Biodiversity;
• Emissions, Effluents, and Waste;
• Products and Services;
• Compliance;
• Transport; and
• Overall

Environmental
Management

Environmental
Action Plan

Materials used by weight or volume

Materials and Waste

Efficient Use of
Resources

Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials

Efficient Use of
Resources

Direct energy consumption by primary energy source

Materials and Waste

Environmental-
Related Data

Indirect energy consumption by primary source

Materials and Waste

Environmental-
Related Data

Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements

Global Warming
Prevention

Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives

Global Warming
Prevention

Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved

Global Warming
Prevention

Total water withdrawal by source

Efficient Use of
Resources

Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas

None

Description of significant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas

Environmental
Contribution Activities

Biotope and Birdpia

Habitats protected or restored

Environmental
Contribution Activities

Biotope and
Birdpia

Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity

Environmental
Management

Environmental
Action Plan

Environmental
Contribution Activities

Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight

Global Warming
Prevention

Materials and Waste

Environmental-
Related Data

Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved

Environmental
Highlights 2012

Global Warming
Prevention

NOx, SOx, and other significant air emissions by type and weight

Materials and Waste

Environmental-
Related Data

Total water discharge by quality and destination

Materials and Waste

Environmental-
Related Data

Total weight of waste by type and disposal method

Efficient Use of
Resources

Materials and Waste

Environmental-
Related Data

Total number and volume of significant spills

Weight of transported, imported, exported, or treated waste deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention Annex I, II, III, and VIII, and percentage of transported waste shipped internationally

None

Identity, size, protected status, and biodiversity value of water bodies and related habitats significantly affected by the reporting organization’s discharges of water and runoff

None

Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation

Green Products

Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category

Product Recycling

Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-Compliance with environmental laws and regulations

None

Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organization’s operations, and transporting members of the workforce

Global Warming
Prevention

Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by type

Environmental
Accounting Results

Disclosure on Management Approach

• Employment;
• Labor/Management Relations;
• Occupational health and safety;
• Training and Education;
• Diversity and Equal Opportunity; and
• Equal remuneration for women and men.

Message from CEO

Advantest's CSR

Total workforce by employment type, employment contract, and region.

Maintaining and
Creating Employment
(Japan/Overseas)

Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by major operations

Supporting a Better
Work-Life Balance

Education, training, counseling, prevention and risk-control programs in place to assist workforce members, their families, or community members regarding serious diseases

Occupational Health
and Safety

Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category

Occupational Health
and Safety

Programs for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings.

Human Resources
Development

Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews.

Fair Evaluation and
Treatment

Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership, and other indicators of diversity

Human Resources
Development

Initiatives Related to the
Protection and Respect
of Human Rights
 (Employment of the
  elderly and the
  disabled)

Disclosure on Management Approach

• Investment and Procurement Practices;
• Non-discrimination;
• Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining;
• Child Labor;
• Prevention of Forced and Compulsory Labor;
• Security Practices;
• Indigenous Rights;
• Assessment; and
• Remediation.

Initiatives Related to the
Protection and Respect
of Human Rights

Percentage and total number of significant investment agreements that include human rights clauses or that underwent human rights screening.

None

Percentage of significant suppliers and contractors that have undergone screening on human rights and actions taken.

Initiatives Related to the
Protection and Respect
of Human Rights

Total hours of employee training on policies and procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations, including the percentage of employees trained.

Initiatives Related to the
Protection and Respect
of Human Rights

Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of child labor, and measures taken to contribute to the elimination of child labor.

Procurement Policy

Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labor, and measures taken to contribute to the elimination of forced or compulsory labor.

Procurement Policy

Total number of incidents of violations involving rights of indigenous people and actions taken.

None

Disclosure on Management Approach

• Local Communities;
• Corruption;
• Public Policy;
• Anti-Competitive Behavior; and
• Compliance.

Corporate Governance

Compliance

Social Contribution
Activities

Percentage of employees trained in organization’s anti-corruption policies and procedures.

Compliance

Total number of legal actions for anti-competitive behavior, anti-trust, and monopoly practices and their outcomes.

None

Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-Compliance with laws and regulations.

None

Disclosure on Management Approach

• Customer Health and Safety;
• Product and Service Labeling;
• Marketing Communications;
• Customer Privacy; and
• Compliance.

Improving Customer
Satisfaction

Quality Management

Life cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services are assessed for improvement, and percentage of significant products and services categories subject to such procedures.

Quality Management

Type of product and service information required by procedures, and percentage of significant products and services subject to such information requirements.

Improving Customer
Satisfaction

Quality Management

Programs for adherence to laws, standards, and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.

Improving Customer
Satisfaction