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[ISO 26000 Core Subject] Community Involvement and Development

The 9th Koto Cinema Festival was held at Furuichiba Culture Center(Koto-ward, Tokyo), which is located close to Fujikura Headquarters, during three consecutive holidays from January9 to 11. The festival was planned and managed by Koto City Culture and Community Foundation and citizen volunteers of Fukagawa district including Monzennakacho to create a new local culture in hopes of making Fukagawa known for films. Fukagawa is the hometown of a famous film director, Yasujiro Ozu, who sent excellent movies into the world one after another.
We will contribute to the maintenance and development of the local culture through our support for the Koto Cinema Festival from now on, too.

As in the previous fiscal year, we cooperated in the blood donation activity conducted by the Japan Red Cross Society with the participation of 65 employees in the Fukagawa district, where the head office is located.

Employees of Fujikura Ltd. and Gatharia office tenants jointly conducted a cleanup activity three times on roads near the facilities, with around 20 people participating for about an hour each time.

Our company invited about 30 kindergarten children and their guardians to the Biotope "Fujikura-Kiba Millennium Woods" for a potato digging event. The children were able to learn about the wonder of “living things” as well as the role of the “Millennium Woods” Biotope.

The Sakura works exhibited at Sakura Monozukuri Festa on May 16 and 17, 2015. Sakura Monozukuri Festa is composed of various events, including an industrial fair where local companies in Sakura City display their products and technologies by using panels, samples, and demonstrations; and an exhibition where various agricultural, commercial and other products made by local craftsmen, restaurants, and specialty stores are sold. The Sakura Plant displayed its products as well, including optical fibers, heat pipes, FiberLasers, and superconductive wire materials, and explained the related technologies at the booth in a manner that was enjoyable for both adults and children.

The “Sakura Industrial Park Liaison Committee”, where the Sakura works serves as the head office, invited member companies to participate in cleaning activities on the road from Sakura Station to the Industrial Park. In 2015, about 70 people from 39 companies participated.

The Sakura works also held a work place tour for the employees' children, entitled "Children's Exciting Tour" during the summer holidays on August 18th, in the2015 fiscal year. The purpose of the tour is to actually see and feel what is being researched and developed, and to develop an interest in science, and to let them feel that our company’s technology in manufacturing is contributing to society. The children were very happy to hear about the workplace where their parents worked in.

On June 5, the Numazu works conducted a cleanup activity at Suruga Bay "Senbon Beach" located near the business office. This activity is carried out at this time every year as one of the environmental activities of the three neighboring companies including our works. The cleaning in the 2015 fiscal year also resulted in collecting a lot of trash such as plastic products, wood scraps, bottles, and cans that were washed up by the waves onto the beach.

The Ishioka works provides a place for intellectually challenged students to sell breads made by them at a bread making facility operated by “Heartful Village” which is a local disabled support facility. The bread is sold twice a week during lunch time at the employee cafeteria. Bread was sold once a week but from the 2015 fiscal year, was increased to twice a week. Many employees actively purchase the bread as it will help in vocational training for employing intellectually challenged people and secure income towards facility management.