Cooperation and coexistence with the local community and society

1）Basic policy on cooperation and coexistence with the local community and society

We are actively involved in community exchange activities based on the principle of “Contributing to society,” which we are required to practice under the ASAHI YUKIZAI Code of Conduct.

Since 2020, due to the impact of COVID-19, we have had to refrain from interactions with local communities, but from last year, activities that had been conducted before COVID-19, such as participation in local festivals, have been revived.

Nobeoka District

Thanksgiving Festival commemorating 80th year of founding of Asahi Yukizai Corporation

At our Nobeoka District in November, we held the Thanksgiving Festival commemorating 80th year of founding of Asahi Yukizai Corporation to celebrate our 80th anniversary. A total of 1,072 people including our employees and their families, members of cooperative companies as well as the local people, visited the site. There were a number of vans with kitchen units, specially set-up booths and events performed on the hand-made stages that livened up the atmosphere. With full smiles and interaction, it marked a day in which we could have the feeling of our future step.

FC Nobeoka Agata

Asahi Yukizai has come to be the main partner of the FC Nobeoka Agata, a professional football club based in Nobeoka, for FY2026. As of March 2026, they were playing in the Kyushu Soccer League, and are endeavoring to be playing in the J. League.
The Club’s slogan for 2026 is “All In For The City”: This means that they will stake all because of this city, showing their strong will to liven up the Nobeoka City. We feel sympathy for it, and will continue attempting together.

Cooperation with the Board of Education

We have been striving to support education in the local communities. A cooperative contract has been concluded among us, Nobeoka City and the Board of Education of Nobeoka City concerning encouragement of education. We are targeting at construction of a new educational model in which next generation students will be trained in the entire region, across the boundaries of schools or school districts, through the support of newly inaugurated Nobeoka Junior High School Students’ AI Club. Junior high school students and teachers in Nobeoka City participate in the Club to engage in learning or researching making use of AI.
From the viewpoint of environment and safety, we position it as an important social responsibility to foster human resources that will help create sustainable locality and are improving or supporting operation of the basis for activity. We received a certificate of appreciation from Nobeoka City, as our contribution was valued. We will continue our commitment targeting the realization of sustainable society, by supporting the growth of young people who hold the future, together with the local communities.

Blood donation activities

We cooperate with blood donation promotion activities conducted by the Miyazaki Red Cross Blood Center, in support of Japan’s policy of securing domestically required blood products through voluntary blood donations.
In FY2025, blood donation campaigns were held in April and October at the Nobeoka Factory with the target of collecting donations from 100 people. As a result, 120 people applied and each of 108 people donated 400 mL of blood.

Health event “Dragnet”

Aiming at increasing employees’ and their families’ health, both physically and mentally, our Health and Productivity Management Promotion Project and labor union cooperated in implementing the health event “Dragnet.” We have continuously held this event since FY2024 and, in FY2025, it was carried out three times in total, in which about a total of 300 people participated. We were able to offer an opportunity significant also from the viewpoint of dietary education on the days of the event, through the fishing with dragnets as well as cutting and trimming fish, which we cannot experience so often in ordinary times. We will continue implementing this event so that we will further promote interaction between employees and their families and reactivate communication in workplaces.

Activities of cleaning the neighborhood of factories

In order that people living in the neighborhood of factories will not feel unpleasant when they come near the factories, we regularly implement clean-up activities such as cleaning of the neighborhood of factories. It was carried out in October 2025 at Nobeoka Factory, and in September 2025 and March 2026 at Amori Factory.

Aichi District

Support for the introductory course for lifesaving and first-aid

The employees working for our Aichi Factory who are certified as Okyu Teate Fukyuin, or First-Aid Instructors who can give first aid during the time from receiving a report to arrival of ambulance are supporting the instructions for holding the introductory course for lifesaving and first-aid led by Niwa Fire Station in Aichi Prefecture. In FY2025, they gave instructions in cooperation with fire station workers for elementary and junior high schools in Niwa-gun, Aichi Prefecture: They instructed regarding the chest compressions, use of AEDs and others in three schools (Oguchi-minami Elementary School in July, Fuso Junior High School in November and Takao Elementary School in Fuso-cho in December).

Blood donation activities

We cooperate with the blood donation promotion activities. In FY2025, a bloodmobile visited the Aichi Factory in June, and 14 employees each donated 400 mL of blood.

Tochigi District

Participation in local summer festivals

As part of our locality revitalization activities, we participate in Yoichi Matsuri (Yoichi Festival) held in Ohtawara City each year. At the 42nd Yoichi Festival held in August 2025, approximately 40 of our employees participated in the Yoichi Dancing. It proved to be a valuable opportunity for deepening interaction with the local community in the festival with a long history.