Social Contribution Activities in the Culture, Sports and Welfare Fields

The Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation* funds to provide assistance for research and other activities in the two fields of traffic safety and welfare services for the aged. It also presents the MSI Welfare Foundation Prize to the authors of excellent publications and papers. In fiscal 2007, it began a program of aid for overseas research targeting Southeast Asia. By the end of fiscal 2010, it had furnished 2,053.7 million yen in aid for 1,686 projects (cumulative totals since its establishment).

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation (Japanese only)

* Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Welfare Foundation: Established in 1975; change of status to a public welfare corporation in December 2009

MSI’s woman judo club and woman’s track-and-field club have taken part in sports promotion, they have produced players who play at forefront of sporting world such as Olympic athletes, participating in various competitions, Not only participating in those competitions but they are active in social contribution activities such as parent-and-child judo class for local residents held by woman judo club and participation of NY charity run by woman’s track-and-field club.

MSI’s Support for Sport (Japanese only)

Cheer for the Japanese national wheelchair basketball team

Aioi Nissay Dowa wants to help people who have incurred disabilities due to traffic accidents or other such causes to lead self-supporting lives and to return to and participate in society and participation. Out of this desire, the company supports all sorts of tournaments such as becoming an official sponsor for the Japanese national wheelchair basketball team, cooperating with wheelchair twin basketball national convention and employees do volunteer work for tournaments.

MSI Kirameki Life is working for the diffusion and reinforcement of sports for the physically challenged. It supports the activities of the Japan Sports Association for the Disabled, the Japan Judo Association for the Visually Handicapped, and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations for the Disabled. The company also helps the challenged to get back into the community life and find fulfillment. It is committed to continued support for improvement of the quality of life. In fiscal 2010, All Japan visually impaired person judo convention was webcast and was watched by many of within and outside of the company.

Cheer for the Japanese national wheelchair basketball team (Japanese only)

Support for Judo match of visually handicapped

Support of sports for the physically challenged (Japanese only)

MSI Shirakawa Hall was opened in Nagoya in 1994, as the concert hall equipped with the highest level sound system in the world.
It holds various events, “Premium series” performed by the first-class artists in the world, and supporting program of local orchestra and original exhibition such as Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and Central Aichi Philharmonic Orchestra, children education project etc. It is playing the positive role as music cultural facility in keeping with its mission of helping music do what it can for a better society.

Mitusi Sumitomo Insurance Shirakawa Hall (Japanese only)

Aioi Nissay Dowa has positioned the Phoenix Hall as a site for mecenat activities in support of the arts and culture. The Hall continues to provide quality musical programs with a focus on classical music performed by artists in Japan and overseas through concerts of its own planning. In fiscal 2011, at the first half own planning concert it will hold “the Great East Japan Earthquake reconstruction charity concert”, and the sale of tickets will be utilized in the reconstruction of stricken area of the earthquake. And it has contributed to the development of music and culture in local community by utilizing for about 200 concerts. We will make the hall in which people feel familiar with music and proceed the contribution to local community through elaborate music activities.

The Phoenix Hall (Japanese only)

The Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Cultural Foundation* engages in activities aimed at supporting efforts to promote culture on the local level, and provides assistance in the fields of music and folk arts. Its main activities are concerts for local residents held in cvic halls in various areas and assistance for programs of international cultural interchange. At the end of fiscal 2010, it staged a total of 588 concerts for local residents in 523 cities, towns, and villages, and furnished a total of 256.5 million yen in aid for programs of international cultural interchange. Since July 2011, it has been holding admission-free concerts in stricken area.

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Cultural Foundation (Japanese only)

* Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Cultural Foundation: Established in 1988, change of status to a public welfare corporation in December 2009

Okumura Togyu, “Benitsubaki”

Aioi Nissay Dowa shows its owned arts, “Tsubaki” in public at museums all around the country. In the past 23 years after 1988, it exhibited those arts at about 50 art shows, many visitors saw them. In fiscal 2010, 61 arts were exhibited at Chigasaki Museum (Kanagawa).

S.Korea - Japan exchanges festival

At MSI's branch in Korea, it acted as the director of the Seoul Japan club (made up with Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Japan club; SJC) for the purpose of building the relation with international society and cultural exchanges. And as the chairman of cultural literacy of SJC, it has held and supported various events such as ‘Cultural Literacy seminar’, ‘Historical sites visiting tour’, ‘Korean class’, ‘S.Korea-Japan Karaoke match’, ‘Christmas charity concert’, ‘S.Korea- Japan exchanges festival’, ‘Korean, Japanese speech contest’ etc. and promoted the cultural exchange, and enhanced mutual understandings.
As the duty of the company of developing a business all over the world, we would like to play a role as the bridge of the exchange of different cultures actively, building the good relationships with overseas local communities that will lead to the mutual development.