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Norinchukin Bank, head office Tokyo. Photo: Google Maps/Earth Streetview
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Last update: 2022-11-01 15:23:31
About
| Website | https://www.nochubank.or.jp/en/ |
| Headquarters |
13-2, Yurakucho 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku
100-8420 Tokyo
Japan
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| CEO/chair |
Kazuto Oku President and CEO |
| Supervisor | |
| Ownership |
The Norinchukin Bank is owned by its members: Japanese agricultural cooperatives, fishery cooperatives, forestry cooperatives, and related federations, as well as other cooperative organisations that have invested in the bank. |
The Norinchukin Bank (also known as Nochu Bank) is a Japanese cooperative bank, headquartered in Tokyo. It was founded in 1923 by the Japanese government to support its agricultural industry. It provides funding for agricultural, fishing and forestry cooperatives. The bank is also one of Japan’s largest institutional investors and invests in bonds, securitisation products, stocks, private equity and real estate, also through its overseas branches in New York, London and Singapore. The Norinchukin Bank adopted the Equator Principles in 2017.
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The Norinchukin Bank's web page on corporate social responsibility can be accessed here.
Norinchukin Bank has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Dodgy Deals
Norinchukin Bank is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of Norinchukin Bank's link to these deals.
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Norinchukin Bank does not operate a complaints or grievances channel for individuals or communities that might have been affected by the bank's finance.
This page evaluates Norinchukin Bank's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".
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