Section 5. Harmonious Coexistence with Society

The company has been engaged in a variety of contribution activities and support activities in accordance with this philosophy. To give one example of these activities, in March 1994, as a 70th anniversary commemoration project, Daibiru donated a high-speed firefighting and rescue boat (the Yumeshima) and some first-aid training equipment to the City of Osaka.

Daibiru has also been involved in disaster relief. In addition to providing relief funds and offering assistance through donations from executives and employees for the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, Daibiru held an in-house fundraising campaign run by executives and employees in April 2016 following the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake to provide relief for victims and funding for reconstruction of the affected areas. Daibiru also donated to the victims of the torrential rain and flooding that occurred in July 2018 and to the victims of Typhoon Hagibis, which struck in November 2019.

In November 2020, in response to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daibiru made a donation to the Kansai COVID-19 Medical System Support Fund, which had been established for the purpose of reinforcing and supporting the medical system in order to assist seriously ill patients and to enable local governments in the Kansai region to monitor the spread of infection, through the Kansai Economic Federation.

Other activities include garbage pickup, holding workshops for children, Akihabara Uchimizukko (“water sprinkling”), and Akihabara evacuation drills, as well as other social contribution activities outside Japan. Daibiru’s overseas activities include donating to a COVID-19 vaccine fund established in Vietnam in 2021 and holding charity events to support institutionalized orphans and homeless people.