Sponsorship
Sponsorship of Sports
Takara Leben LEBEN NIGHT GAME
On June 1, 2023, Takara Leben held its first endowed game in four years since 2019, the Takara Leben LEBEN NIGHT GAME (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles vs. Yokohama DeNA BayStars).
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles was established in 2005 as the only professional baseball team in the Tohoku region after 50 years. The team has built its roots in Tohoku by hosting games in each Tohoku prefecture and donating sports facilities to the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The team won the league championship and Japan No. 1 title in 2013.
We have sponsored a game every year with the aim of becoming a company that is loved by the local community like the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles since our expansion into the Tohoku area in 2014. We have not been able to host a crowned game for the past three years due to the spread of coronavirus, but in 2023, we were able to do so for the first time in four years. We will be wishing for the victory of Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles from here on out and contributing to the revitalization of the Tohoku area as a company.
Donation of soccer balls to elementary and junior high schools in Toyama Prefecture
Takara Leben is a sponsor of KATALLER TOYAMA soccer club team, which participates in the J-League. In November 2023, together with other sponsors, we donated soccer balls to elementary and junior high schools at the Special Room in Toyama Prefectural Government.
Since 2009, we have supplied 13 projects in Toyama Prefecture, contributing to urban development and community revitalization. Since 2013, we have continued to support " KATALLER TOYAMA" as a sponsor, aiming to contribute to the sound upbringing of youth, the promotion of sports, and the revitalization of the local community.
Takara Leben supports KATALLER TOYAMA by donating soccer balls to elementary and junior high schools in Toyama Prefecture, with the aim of contributing to the sound upbringing of children, the local community, and the development of youth.
Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
Since February 2021, MIRARTH HOLDINGS has entered into a corporate partner agreement with Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza, Japan's leading women's soccer team, to deliver the excitement and joy of sports to the public. Through sponsorship of this team, we will support the success of women and contribute to Itabashi-ku and Kita-ku, Tokyo, where our company was founded.
Kishu Kuchikumano Marathon 2024
MIRARTH Asset Management (formerly Takara Asset Management) is an official sponsor of the Kishu Kuchikumano Marathon. This is a full and half marathon featuring a course rich in nature, held on the first Sunday of February every year in Kamitonda-cho, Wakayama Prefecture. The LS Shirahama Power Plant, which the company manages under asset management, is in the same town. So, the company is working to contribute to society and revitalize the local community through sponsorship of the event.
Cultural Sponsorship
SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien
MIRARTH HOLDINGS officially sponsored the "SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien" 2023.
This is a competition for high school students to explore the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), present their ideas and action plans for solving social issues in order to think and act for a sustainable future for the earth.
The "2030 Inquiry Newspaper" introduces the action ideas of the top and excellent prize-winning teams from the competitions held in each area in 2022. Additionally, in August 2023, an online national exchange meeting was held as a platform for the teams that won the top prizes in the competitions held in 11 regions across the country in 2022 to interact and exchange ideas. As a corporate award, we presented the MIRARTH Prize to the "Muroyowashi" team from Hokkaido Iwamizawa Agricultural High School for their action plan titled "Transforming Heavy Snow Areas and Rice Husks into Zero-Carbon Agricultural Production Areas. This initiative started in Hokkaido and Kansai in 2019, and the number of areas and participants is continuing to grow each year.
The competition will be held in 32 prefectures in 19 areas having approximately 4,800 high schools joining throughout Japan for FY2023.
Mt. Fuji Asagiri Biomass Power Plant Tour
In August 2023, MIRARTH HOLDINGS invited the Hokkaido Iwamizawa Agricultural High School "Muroyowashi" team to visit the Group's Mt. Fuji Asagiri Biomass Power Plant in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The team won the top prize at the Hokkaido Area Competition and the MIRARTH Award at the national exchange meeting for their action plan, "Toward a Zero Carbon Agriculture Production Region Using Snow and Rice Husks in Heavy Snowfall Areas," at the 2022 SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien.
This power plant not only reuses facilities that were used as part of the "Eco-Harmonized Biomass Resource Utilization Model Project" by the Ministry of the Environment, but also expands the facilities to increase the amount of cattle manure that becomes industrial waste, thereby strengthening efforts to solve local issues. We are also expanding storage tanks and other facilities so that the liquid fertilizer produced in the project can be applied at the appropriate time and are further improving the facility to contribute to the local community.
During the tour, in addition to the explanation of the current situation and equipment in the power plant as described above, the participants also observed how cow manure is received from nearby dairy farmers. The participating high school students commented, "It was good to see an example of natural energy utilization like the action plan we came up with," "I would like to make use of what I have learned in my future student life, " and "I was able to realize that the cycle of solving local issues is circulating."
Ehime SDGs Koshien
Takara Leben and Leben Community were special sponsors of the "Ehime SDGs Koshien: High School Students' SDGs Practice Project.”
The competition is intended to be a practical project where high school students can interact with the community and their peers, improve their communication skills, and acquire the ability to think with respect for diverse values and the environment as a place to practice ESD (Education for Sustainable Development). This is a project commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company's founding and was planned and developed jointly with RES, a non-profit organization, in 2022.
A total of 303 students from 51 teams from high schools throughout Ehime Prefecture participated in the 2023 tournament. In the preliminary round held in August, each team decided on an issue or theme that they wanted to solve in their local community or their own living environment to achieve the SDGs17. The judging was based on the activities conducted in response to these challenges and a video summarizing the results of these activities. 12 teams, 79 people in total, won the preliminary round. In the finals, the 12 winning teams from the preliminary round gave 10-minute presentations, and the team with the highest overall score was selected as the grand prix winner and awarded the prize. In addition, Takara Leben awarded the "Takara Leben Award" to "Team COSMOS" from Kita-Uwa High School's Mima Branch for their "#Mima Project: Energize the Town with the Power of High School Students. " We evaluated not only their ability to conceptualize a rice burger using local specialty rice, but their high level of execution to actually sell the product to revitalize a depopulated local community.
We will continue to create opportunities for young people leading the next generation, to research local issues to achieve the SDGs and acquire the ability to discover issues and take action to solve them, to develop "creators of a sustainable society" as stated in the official guidelines for school teaching.
Sponsorship of "Osaka Healthcare Pavilion" at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
MIRARTH HOLDINGS Group is an official partner of the Osaka Health Care Pavilion at the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.
The Osaka-Kansai Expo is an international exposition to be held in Yumeshima, Osaka City, under the theme of "Designing Future Society for Our Lives. " This will be Japan's sixth World Expo and will bring together wisdom from around the world to address a variety of global issues. The Expo site will feature pavilions and events introducing cultures and technologies from around the world, as well as exhibits and hands-on programs that will offer visitors an opportunity to think about future society.
Through its sponsorship, the Company will support the success of this event.
Environment Photo Contest
MIRARTH HOLDINGS participated in the 30th Environmental Photo Contest 2024 (sponsored by President Inc. and supported by the Ministry of the Environment and the Institute for Environmental Civilization), in which citizens took photos based on a theme set by companies and express their thoughts and commitment to the environment through joint efforts by companies and citizens. The MIRARTH HOLDINGS Award, which was given under the theme of "Happiness of People and the Earth," attracted 845 entries that captured moments of Earth teeming with life and irreplaceable "happiness."
After a rigorous screening process, we awarded the Excellence Award to "Whether the puddle looks beautiful or not depends on ..."
MOMAT Corporate Partnership
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, a central center for art in Japan, is promoting MOMAT Support Circle, a new museum support system in which companies and museums work as partners.
Takara Leben has been a partner company of the MOMAT Support Circle since July 2021 and continued to support the activities of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (including exhibition organization, research and surveys, collection and storage of artworks, educational outreach activities, and museum management projects) in 2023. By supporting the activities of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, we contribute to fostering culture and provide opportunities for employees to experience outstanding works of art.
