Mitsuba Corporation has signed an “Forest Maintenance Activity Agreement” with Gunma Prefecture. Every year, volunteers from Mitsuba perform forest maintenance at Gunma Insect World. While maintaining good relationships with local communities, Mitsuba contributes to conservation of satoyama (woodland close to villages) and prevention of global warming.
In hopes for an automotive society free of accidents, Mitsuba Corporation has been holding Charity Concert since 1973. The music club of the Mutual Aid Association fills a central role in this concert. The collected donations are given to children who were orphaned due to traffic accidents and used to donate equipment to medical facilities.
Mt. Pleasant (MI), USA, where American Mitsuba Corp. is located, entered into a sister city relationship with Okaya City, Nagano Pref. in Japan in 1965. As part of exchanges between the two cities, they take turns sending high school students to each other for foreign study over to one another every year. American Mitsuba supports this project.
In 2009, American Mitsuba Corp. started a scholarship fund for the Central Michigan University. We accumulated a total of $25,000 and then spent that money to provide scholarships to two students every year.
Mitsuba do Brazil Ltda. provides joint environmental education to children in cooperation with the environmental committee of the industrial zone where the company is located. At the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), the company explains about environmental issues and recycling, and holds activities to make children interested in the environment.
Every Christmas, Mitsuba Automotive Systems of Europe Kft. (Hungary) gives “shoebox gifts” to children in poor families. Through the Hungarian Baptist Aid (a humanitarian aid organization), we provide items collected from employees as gifts.
Mitsuba Philippines Corp. repaired a school building at the request of a local elementary school (Lipa City, Batangas, the Philippines). Employees also cooperated in restoration work, including the donation of materials, cleaning tools, and equipment necessary for restoration.
Mitsuba Vietnam Co., Ltd. provides school supplies to orphanages in Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. In order to convey the importance and enjoyment of learning, the company gives children stationery and notebooks collected by volunteer employees.
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