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| Green Diamonds highlights the ongoing
efforts of Mitsubishi companies to foster a greener,
more sustainable planet
and brighter, more vibrant communities through wide-ranging environmental and
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| In collaboration with the National Federation of UNESCO
Associations in Japan, three MUFG Group companies
( The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mitsubishi UFJ
Trust and Banking, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities) and The
Mitsubishi UFJ Environment Foundation in 2008 started
the 5-year “Save Our Common Treasures of the Earth”
project directed primarily at elementary schoolchildren. To
encourage children to commune with nature, and to learn
the beauty and importance of nature, the Project annually
hosts the Midori-no-e¹ Concour, attracting paintings |
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| of natural subjects from nearly 30,000 children. For every 10
paintings submitted, the Project plants one tree in the area
surrounding the World Heritage-listed Shirakami-Sanchi²
in Northern Japan. The Project also invites those children
whose paintings have been awarded a Grand Prize in the
Concour on a tour of the area. |
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Note1: Literally, “Paintings of Greenery” but extended to include all aspects of the natural world.
Note2: Inscribed because it is the last virgin remains of the cool-temperate forest of Siebold's
beech trees.
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| Ceremonies were held on December 17 last year to mark
the completion of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
Tandem solar power generation system donated by MHI to
the Dong Anh-Okinawa Economic and Cultural Exchange
Center (DOWACEN) in Hanoi, a facility that also provides
Japanese language teaching. The MHI Tandem is a thin-film
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| top of a conventional amorphous silicon layer. The donated
system is capable of generating around 12 kW of power.
Operable as a stand-alone power source it can provide
sufficient electricity to light four classrooms, even during a
power outage. The donation stems from MHI’s corporate
social responsibility program, one theme of which is to offer
emerging nations support through its products. |
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| Mitsubishi Corporation has, since 2005, been engaged
in a Global Coral Reef Conservation Project with the
purpose of conserving coral reefs in the long-term by
investigating the causes and consequences of the crisis
that is threatening reefs around the world. Conducted
at three locations — Okinawa in Japan, Midway Atoll in
the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the Republic of
Seychelles — the Project supports scientific research |
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through the combined efforts of industry (Mitsubishi
Corporation), universities, and the general public through
NGO support.
The company runs in-house programs to further
employee understanding of environmental issues and the
results of research garnered in the Project are presented at
meetings of scientific societies and seminars on a regular
basis so that they can be put to effective use globally. |
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| JX Holdings, Inc. invites submissions from the general public
of original children’s literature on the theme of “heart-to-heart
contact.” As well as presenting awards to the best works
submitted, the Group also publishes the works as a collected
volume called The Bouquet of Children’s Stories. Copies of the
book are donated to social welfare facilities across Japan, while
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| companies, employees and others are channeled into the JX
Children’s Story Fund. Donations from the fund to the Japan
National Council of Social Welfare are used in running the JX
Scholarship Program which provides financial assistance to
help children in foster-care facilities, mothers and children's
homes, and in foster families to stand on their own feet when
going on to tertiary education. |
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