My name is Yasuhiro Doida, and I am the President and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation RtM Japan Ltd.

We are a metals trading company handling a broad range of metals and mineral resources as part of the Mitsubishi Corporation Group. The “RtM” in our name stands for Resource to Market, and that is precisely what we are all about. It represents our driving business principle which is to connect customers with suppliers of metals and mineral resources in the most effective and efficient way possible.

While the spread of COVID-19 has drastically upended people’s lives, we believe it has made the metals and mineral resources that support our lives all the more important. Raw materials for steel and stainless steel, copper for electric wiring, aluminium for lightweight automobiles, nickel and lithium for rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles, precious metals needed for a carbon-neutral society and more are all indispensable in Japan, a nation poor in natural resources, and it is our mission to provide a stable supply of those resources to the market.

As a member of the Mitsubishi Corporate Group with a network spanning the entire world, we engage in business on a global scale and conduct our corporate activities with the belief that we should contribute to developing a sustainable society while simultaneously aiming to achieve economic value, environmental value and social value for our business. We will continue to get ahead of changes and provide an array of added-value services to reliably meet the needs of our customers, and we appreciate your continued patronage.