TaKaRa: CSR: "Green-Ink" Corporate Report 2005

For a Society with “iki-iki”(happiness and health)

The Harmonist – Promoting Social Contributions and Volunteer Activities

Takara Shuzo has created the concept of the “harmonist.” The term represents someone who promotes harmony, and signifies our determination to create better relationships between nature, people and society. To these ends, we are involved in various social contributions and volunteer activities.

“TaKaRa Harmonist Fund” to Exceed 100 Million Yen

Aid fund presentation ceremony held at the Main Office

In 1985, on the 60th anniversary of its founding, Takara established their TaKaRa Harmonist Fund, a public trust. Every year since then, the Fund has extended aid to organizations and individuals that undertake activities that preserve forests and natural waterside environments in Japan, and to research into protecting living organisms. Fiscal 2004 marked the 19th year of the Fund, which has contributed a total of 100.25 million yen to 208 projects.

In fiscal 2004, the circle of the Fund’s environmental preservation activities expanded even further: an elementary school was selected to receive a grant for the first time; and organizations in Oita, Fukui and Miyazaki prefectures received subsidies for the first time. Beginning with this year, individual employees can support natural conservation activities by contributing points to the Harmonist Fund from within the points benefit package system.

Lists of organizations that have received aid from the TaKaRa Harmonist Fund in fiscal 2004
(Basic grant: 500,000 yen)

	Organization or individual	Prefecture	Theme
Research	Rishiri Island Natural Information Center	Hokkaido	Scientific research to preserve and use the Minamihama Wetlands on Rishiri Island
	NPO Musashino Satoyama Society	Saitama	Survey of conditions in rice paddies inhabited by several species of dragonfly that are highly dependent on the rice paddy environment
	Izunuma, Uchinuma, Weatherfish and Catfish Society	Miyagi	Experiment tracing the lifecycle of fish in small rice paddies
	(Individual) Yoshi Suzuki	Nara	Research on the movement of populations of several species of fish around a rice paddy network
Activities	Nangoku Municipal Oshino Elementary School	Kochi	Bring Back Fireflies project
	Oita Dragonfly Society	Oita	Feeding and breeding of the larvae of the Bekko-tombo (Libellula angelina Selys)
	(Individual) Kazunori Kawauchi	Fukui	Search for a new habitat for Abe’s Salamander, classified as an IA endangered species, in a forest in Fukui Prefecture
	Research Institute for Stream Environments and Health Problems	Miyazaki	Summit to discuss the Hyuganada Coast
	NPO Hotaruno	Chiba	Making Shinkawa Kochi a sanctuary for fireflies
	Lake Biwa Natural Environment Network	Shiga	Improving rivers so that fish swim up them
	Executive Committee for Dandelion Survey Kinki 2005	Osaka	Study of the dandelion by the citizens of the Kinki region

*voice#10 [Voice of Recipient Organization]

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