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	<title>Purpose &#8211; The Ajinomoto Group Global Website &#8211; Eat Well, Live Well.</title>
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	<description>The Ajinomoto group is a leading global company with the specialties in the business of food and amino acids, guided by our leading-edge bioscience and fine chemical technologies.</description>
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		<title>How Diverse Employees Generate Innovation: “Why the Ajinomoto Group Advanced DE&#038;I” as Told by Executives</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, Diversity, Equity &#038; Inclusion (DE&#038;I) has become an increasingly familiar concept in corporate management. Even so, many people still find it difficult to clearly explain why DE&#038;I matters, or how they themselves should engage with it in their daily work. At the Ajinomoto Group, diversity initiatives began in the 2000s and were formally updated to DE&#038;I in 2023, positioning DE&#038;I as part of the Group’s management strategy. At the same time, employee feedback has highlighted challenges, such as difficulty in making DE&#038;I feel personally relevant and uncertainty about how to take action.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why the Ajinomoto Group is Deeply Committed to Quality &#8211; And How the Everyday Actions of Employees Around the World Bring Our Quality Assurance to Life</title>
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		<title>【Flags】Amino Acid Pro from the Other Side of the Globe～Naralice, Amino Acids Dept.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["Flags" is the Ajinomoto Group's activities and its symbol that supports challenges and voluntary participation.
This time, we introduce the challenges and thoughts of Naralice, a member of the Amino Acids Dept., who came to Tokyo Headquarters from Brazil.

The Ajinomoto Group has a Purpose of "Contributing to the well-being of all human beings, our society and our planet with 'AminoScience''' and each of us will continue to take on challenges in various ways.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Ajinomoto Group Deepens Global Climate Engagement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mylian Sugawara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Our Philosophy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mylian Sugawara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>ASV Management Cycle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mylian Sugawara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What does ASV mean to you?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DD_kazuki_seki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ajinomoto Group Creating Shared Value (ASV) is Ajinomoto Group's initative for the future. We asked three Ajinomoto Group employees what they each thought about ASV.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Growing to Help Solve Social Problems! What is the Ajinomoto Group&#8217;s Management Cycle for ASV Results Creation?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DD_teruhisa_kobayashi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Growing to Help Solve Social Problems!
What is the Ajinomoto Group's Management Cycle for ASV Results Creation?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Realizing ASV by structuring sustainable innovation creation: The challenge of the global one team “BRIDGE”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 06:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Ajinomoto Group’s ASV Award honors initiatives that help solve society’s issues, leading to the creation of economic value through innovative and original business activities with our stakeholders and businesses. The Gold Prize for FY 2022 was presented for the BRIDGE project, a groundbreaking value-chain-crossing project that contributed to the reduction of greenhouse gases through the global one-team. We heard about the project from its initiator, Kohei Ishikawa.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Go to Mars: exploring possibilities for life on the Red Planet through “AminoScience”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AJ_manami_wada]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 02:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Given the global challenges of climate change and a population on Earth of 8 billion, innovative and sustainable solutions are now needed more than ever. For the sake of future generations, the status quo won’t suffice. Humanity requires interventions that push the boundaries of what’s possible. How can we ensure our survival as a species? To address that question, the Ajinomoto Group is actively working to educate Gen Z and other young people about the power of amino acids, enabling them to explore possibilities for living on Mars as well as adapting to present challenges we face right here on Earth.]]></description>
		
		
		
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