Having agreed to the purpose of “International Literacy Year” of the United Nations, we started the Mitsubishi Asian children’s Enikki Festa in 1990. Our social welfare activities aim to stimulate cultural exchange between children by looking through the children’s illustrated diary. So far, we have held the festival eight times and we have received 422,173 applications from 25 districts and countries. The festival of the ninth term is being executed from 2008 to 2009. >> Official Site The Mitsubishi Public Affairs Committee has been inviting children living in social welfare facilities, introduced through Nippon Charity Kyokai Foundation, to soccer games that take place at the J-League Urawa Red Diamonds home ground since 1994. “The Mitsubishi Showroom”, had been operating in Marunouchi since the 1950’s. It was refurbished for use as Mitsubishi Center in 1974, had been organized by Mitsubishi Public Affairs Committee until 2006. The Center is now temporarily closed, however, we are now developing a project where we will reopen a new space in the Marunouchi Ichigokan, for which reconstruction will complete in 2009. In the new Center, visitors will be able to browse precious artworks which belong to member companies and organizations related to our group such as the Sekaido Bunko Art Museum or the Toyo Bunko, via achieved ultra-high-density digital imaging. Monthly Mitsubishi was first published in November 1965 as a public relations and information magazine. It introduces the management philosophy from the viewpoint of senior members of the organization including the introduction of new products and topical subjects from each company. It has been distributed to employees of each member company of the group and concerned parties to further communication. Number of issues: 360,000 Mitsubishi Monitor was first published in 1987 for the staff that work in companies incorporated abroad and overseas offices of Mitsubishi Group. It contains some topics in digest format including the major news for each company of the Mitsubishi Group. It also introduces Japanese culture and nature in English. Number of issues: 12,000 (bimonthly) >> More To facilitate recognition of Mitsubishi Group companies domestically and abroad, we publish Mitsubishi Profile (written both in Japanese and English) regularly to widely publicise the diversity of the Group’s business, contribution to society and support of cultural activities. The website of Mitsubishi Public Affairs Committee has been set up within the portal site of Mitsubishi Group (www.mitsubishi.com) such as introducing what each member company does and their various activities around the world. Available in Japanese, English and Chinese. Here we select a timely theme from a broad range of categories such as politics, economy, art and science, and prepares a lecture meeting inviting a panel of specialists of the subject. These lecture meetings are open to the public in addition to parties related to the Mitsubishi Group. We assist journalists and other media personnel both domestically and abroad directly on their coverage of the Mitsubishi Group. We also assist them in forming connections with the Mitsubishi Group and its companies. We also respond to any inquiries on the activities of the Mitsubishi Public Affairs Committee from each geographical location.