Social Contribution Activities
Support for the Kyoto City Music Art and Cultural Promoting Foundation
To contribute to the vitality of our community and to promote Kyoto's arts and culture, we support the Kyoto City Music Art and Cultural Promoting Foundation. Based on the Declaration of Kyoto City as a World Cultural Freedom City, this foundation was established to help Kyoto remain a global center for cultural exchange by helping to create an outstanding level of culture and to contribute to building a society in which residents can live lives of vitality and culture. The foundation promotes music, theater, dance, and other arts and culture, and communicates them across Japan and around the world.
Support for an initiative of the Kyoto City University of Arts to support future artists
We support the Noren Hyakuninshu initiative of the Kyoto City University of Arts. A major center for arts and culture not just in Kyoto but for the whole of Japan, the university has produced numerous artists. Backed by Kyoto's extensive artistic traditions, it also serves as a hub for communicating arts and culture worldwide. The program seeks to strengthen the university's educational environment to support future artists.
Support for the Kyoto Knowledge Entrepreneurship Awards
Chairman and CEO Shigeru Saito is a secondary judge in the Knowledge Entrepreneurship Awards committee managed by Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry. This awards program is intended to identify and recognize entrepreneurs who, through their ideas and technologies, are building a new future and expected to expand their activities overseas. We join supporting companies and industrial support organizations in promoting award-winning businesses.
Participation in the KOIN Open Innovation Cafe
Chairman and CEO Shigeru Saito lectures to hopeful entrepreneurs and businesspersons, students, startup managers, and young managers in the Kyoto Open Innovation Network (KOIN), an Open Innovation Cafe operated by Kyoto Chiesangyo Sozonomori. KOIN was established as a venue for cocreation in which participants playing active roles in today's community come together to learn from the past and to consider the future. It provides a wide range of networking opportunities to help diverse participants take on new challenges in Kyoto.
Co-Sponsor of a Program to Protect the Children of Kyoto
TOSE is supporting a social contribution program to protect the children of Kyoto that aims to prevent traffic accidents involving children. Specifically, we strive to promote an understanding among children of how important it is to obey traffic rules by standing guard at intersections and by the roadside during the hours when children are going home from school and by handing out goods that reflect automobile lights to alert drivers.
Goods used to raise awareness of traffic safety
Distributing goods to children
Support of NPO Shibafu School Kyoto
We believe supporting the development of surroundings in which children can grow, learn and play in an open and healthy environment will shape the future in which our children will live and work.
Supporting the Gion Festival Clean Campaign
We are lending a hand in supporting the Gion Festival, which attracts throngs of visitors to Kyoto annually, by putting garbage containers and helping with local beautification efforts.
Volunteer staff wearing T-shirts emblazoned with TOSE's corporate name picked up trash in support of a "Trash-free Gion Festival."
Introduction of Vending Machines with Donation Function
TOSE started introducing vending machines with a donation function in 2009 as a social contribution activity in which all employees can take part in their daily lives. Currently eight such vending machines have been installed. When a drink is purchased from one of these vending machines, 1 yen of the purchase price is donated to such charitable organizations as Kansai Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Pink Ribbon Kyoto and the Green Fund.
