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Mitsubishi Materials (MMC), in a project directed at children to celebrate the group’s 150th anniversary, ran a website in collaboration with the TV anime series Dr. Stone; it was available on the MMC website until the end of December 2021. The Dr. Stone anime was based on a Japanese science adventure manga written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi. The manga is serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. It was decided to produce a sequel to the series adapted for television and published on the Web in 2019 and 2021. The website allows children to enjoy learning, through quizzes and mini-games, about the company’s recycling technology, for E-Scrap and aluminum cans among others, as well as about the copper smelting process. In addition, 50,000 copies of a special notebook for learning along with Dr. Stone characters were distributed to fifth and sixth graders throughout Japan. The MMC group will continue to actively contribute to society by offering children these and other learning opportunities.