Social Contribution

Donation to General Incorporated Association, Power for Tomorrow

Takara Asset Management makes donations to the General Incorporated Association, Power for Tomorrow.
The organization supports adults who take on social challenges in order to realize a society in which all children can grow up with hope. The "Dokodemo Kodomo Shokudo" (Children's Diner) that the organization operates is a system that allows children in need of food and supervision to eat at local restaurants anytime, free of charge, and with peace of mind.
The organization not only provides meals to children, but also creates opportunities for children to connect with the community through cooperation between local restaurants and support groups working for children in the community.

Donation to the "Chinju-no Mori Project"

Takara Leben Tohoku (currently Takara Leben) supports and donates to the Chinju-no Mori project.
Chinju-no mori (Shrine Forest) has existed around shrines since ancient times, protecting the local community and the lives of its people. This project aims to create as many forests modeled after such Chinju-no mori as possible to support Japan, a country prone to frequent disasters.
In fact, deeply rooted trees mitigated the force of the tsunami in the Great East Japan Earthquake, and disaster prevention forests played an important role in stopping large fires in the Great Kanto and Great Hanshin Earthquakes.

Donation to Meals on Wheels Logistics System

Takara Leben Tohoku (currently Takara Leben) donates to Meals on Wheels Logistics System as part of its efforts to help achieve the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and revitalize the Tohoku area. This activity promoted by the National Food Support Activities Cooperative Association aims to create an environment where all people, including children and the elderly, who gather at children's cafeterias and other places across the country can have access to food. We have established a system to deliver food donated by various organizations and local governments to approximately 2,000 locations for places to stay and child support groups via 50 logistics centers (locations/warehouses with food freezing/refrigeration facilities and matching coordination of donated food) and 99 hub locations (branches where activity groups pick up food) across Japan.

Donation to Good Neighbors Japan

Takara Asset Management supports and donates to Good Neighbors Japan, which aims to address ESG issues in a concrete and proactive manner in its daily business operations.

Good Neighbors Japan is a non-profit organization operating in Japan and abroad with a vision of "a society where children are full of smiles and everyone can live humanely" and a mission of "working with partners in Japan and abroad to eliminate the causes of poverty and discrimination and the threats posed by disasters and conflict." In Japan, as a project to address child poverty, we operate the "Good Gohan" program, which regularly distributes food to single-parent households.

Donation to NPO KATARIBA

Takara Asset Management donates to Katariba, an authorized NPO certified by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The NPO provides educational support to children in Japan who have been deprived of opportunities to study due to the disaster or poverty. Donations are used to support activities such as creating a place for children in free after-school classes, learning support, and meal support.

TABLE FOR TWO

We continuously donate to TABLE FOR TWO International, a non-profit organization that aims to eliminate international food inequality issues. Since November 2018, we have been donating 50 yen per bag of vegetables harvested at Raven Village, a farm operated as part of our diversity promotion program where people with disabilities work, to be distributed to those who wish to receive them within the company. 28,844 yen was donated for activities in FY2022.

Joining and Donation to the Japan Children Support Association

Takara Asset Management has joined and donated to the Japan Children Support Association, a non-profit organization. With the mission of permanently resolving the cycle of child poverty and violence, we support the association which works to provide foster care and childcare support so that children can live in peace, an activity that is also linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Corporate Version of Hometown Tax

MIRARTH HOLDINGS Group promotes social contribution activities by donating to local governments through the corporate version of hometown tax payment, thereby contributing to regional development and solving local issues.

Donation to Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, for Creation of Future Society through Digitalization Project

Takara Leben donated to Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture's Creation of Future Society through Digitalization Project.
The company has four new condominium projects for sale in Morioka City, and has agreed to participate in this project in order to contribute to the further upgrading of Morioka City's core urban functions.
This project will promote public-private partnerships to improve the lives of citizens through digitalization by identifying the ideal ways and issues to utilize digital technology in the local economy and society with a view to the future of Morioka City, and by defining priority issues to be addressed.

Donation to Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, for Step-up Project for Creation and Expansion of Relevant Populations and Immigration and Settling in Fukui City

Takara Leben donated to Fukui City's "Step-up Project for Creation and Expansion of Relevant Populations and Immigration and Settling in Fukui City" in Fukui Prefecture. The company agreed to make the donation because it has supplied three new condominiums for sale in Fukui City to date, and because the "Creating Lifestyles with Value" and "Forming Communities," which are key sustainability themes of its Group, are initiatives shared by the city.
This project aims to create and expand the relevant population and promote immigration by providing opportunities for young, creative, community-oriented human resources from within and outside of the prefecture to learn and deepen exchanges with local partner companies, while creating commercialization ideas and engaging in activities to solve local issues.

KNB Grand Bazaar "Umbrella Sky"

Takara Leben sponsored the KNB Grand Bazaar "Umbrella Sky" with the aim of revitalizing the Toyama area, which is undergoing redevelopment. KNB Grand Bazaar is an annual event held in July every year by the Toyama area TV station, Kitanihon Broadcasting Corporation (KNB), with themes including SDGs. In FY2022, the first time the event was held in three years due to the new COVID-19, Umbrella Skies were placed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Takara Leben's founding, a decoration with colorful umbrellas in the air. In the SDGs Corner, we exhibited panels showing our SDG initiatives and promoted our efforts to focus on regional reconstruction and the SDGs.

Tohoku-Miyagi Online Revive Marathon 2022

The Tohoku-Miyagi Revive Marathon, which Takara Leben has sponsored since FY2018, is one of the largest marathons in the Tohoku region, attracting runners with a desire to help rebuild the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Since FY2020, the marathon has been held as the "Tohoku-Miyagi Online Revive Marathon," which can be held even when people cannot gather due to the spread of the new COVID-19. The runners download a GPS training application to their smartphones and choose their favorite course from Iwate, Miyagi, or Fukushima to complete the target distance within the event period. (Only Miyagi for the 2022 convention) For each runner who completes the course within the time frame, 100 yen is donated to a reconstruction support organization. In 2022, 15 employees from our group, including 7 new member, participated as runners.

Community Revitalization through Festivals

Takara Leben sponsored the Hakata Dontaku Port Festival (Fukuoka Prefecture) and the Tohoku Kizuna Festival (Akita Prefecture) with the aim of contributing to regional revitalization and the preservation of Japanese culture. Hakata Dontaku is a traditional event that has been held for more than 840 years, originating from Matsubayashi, a traditional festival that is said to have started in 1179. The Tohoku Kizuna Festival is a festival that brings together six festivals in the Tohoku region to not only attract visitors to the festival, but also to pray for the repose of the souls of the dead and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Through sponsorship of these festivals, we will foster a festival culture and contribute to reconstruction assistance and local economic revitalization.

Kodomo Shokudo (Children’s cafeteria)

Leben Home Build has sponsored Children's cafeteria run by Menya Noroshi (Akihabara, Tokyo), operated by OCEAN Corporation, since June 2022. Menya Noroshi operates the Children's Cafeteria, which procures foodstuffs with sponsorship from companies, organizations, and individuals, and provides all meals free of charge to children up to the sixth grade at any time.
Through sponsorship of the Children's Cafeteria, Leben Home Build will support the realization of a society where children can live in peace by reducing child poverty issues and children who eat alone.

Yokohama Model Regional Contribution Company Certification

Leben Home Build (formerly Nikko Takara Corporation) has received the highest rating in the Yokohama-type Community Contribution Company Certification System, which is a system under which the City of Yokohama, a government agency, evaluates and certifies companies in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, that are engaged in excellent community contribution activities through their core business and other activities. The audit evaluates a company's regional characteristics and management system from various perspectives, including "local utilization and orientation," "employment," "environment," "occupational health and safety," "consumer and customer relations," "compliance," and "information security."

Winner of Kids Design Award for "Yajirushi" Emergency Shelter Guidance Signs

As a developer involved in urban development through the sale of new houses, Leben Home Build produces and installs "Yajirushi" signs to guide people to evacuation centers, based on the idea that "in residential areas with few landmarks, signs are needed to guide people, including small children, to evacuation centers that are easily understood by everyone." To help educate children throughout the community about disaster preparedness, we have installed them at locations facing the street, such as inside garbage stations in its subdivisions. At the time of installation, we communicated the purpose and significance of the project to the residents of the surrounding area, and we have received support from many of them. In the future, we will provide this service to other companies' subdivisions, governments, and organizations upon request, aiming to contribute to disaster prevention in the local community as a whole. Yajirushi received the Encouragement Award at the 2019 Kids Design Awards for its high level of creativity in minimizing information and expressions that are easy for children to understand.

Cleanup Activities

As part of activities aimed at becoming a company that contributes to the development of local communities, each Group company engages in cleanup activities. Through cleanup activities, we will fulfill our corporate social responsibility by keeping the areas we are involved in hygienic and contributing to the healthy development of local communities. In addition to cleaning up to protect the sanitary environment around condominiums supplied by Group companies, sites under construction, and solar power plants, we are also actively involved in cleaning up the areas around our offices, which are the bases for our employees' activities. We will also participate in regular beautification activities organized by local municipalities and neighborhood associations, aiming to strengthen partnerships and cooperative relationships in the community.

SDGs Donation-type Private Placement Bonds

Leben Clean Energy raised funds by issuing SDGs Donation-type Private Placement Bonds with Ehime Bank as the underwriter. A portion of the issuance fee was donated to the Ehime Prefectural Government through Ehime Bank, and a presentation ceremony was held on October 26, 2022.
SDGs Donation-type Private Placement Bonds are issued by blue-chip companies that meet certain financial criteria, support the objectives of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) advocated by the United Nations, and wish to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs through donations and contributions. A portion of the issue fee (0.1% of the issue amount) for this private placement bond is donated to organizations working on the SDGs.
Leben Clean Energy, which has been promoting renewable energy to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society under its vision of "creating a carbon neutral world with renewable energy," has decided to raise funds through the issuance of SDGs Donation-type Private Placement Bonds to express its desire to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs through its business activities. The funds obtained through this financing will be used to fund future projects that will lead to the achievement of the SDGs.