Nurturing a culture of trust
Promotion of social contribution activities

Promotion of Asuka Village projects

Activities at Haseko Technical Center
(Haseko Condominium Museum and Haseko Technical Research Institute)

Haseko Corporation’s Haseko Technical Center in Tama-shi, Tokyo, has a publicly accessible Haseko Condominium Museum (by appointment only) as well as a biotope inhabited by many living creatures.
The Center serves as a space where we can engage with members of the local community and share the attractiveness of building condominiums through various disaster prevention events and workshops. In fiscal 2023, an event where visitors had the rare experience of operating robots was held at Haseko Technical Research Institute.
We will continue with our activities as Haseko Technical Center and contribute to promoting and invigorating the local community.

Related information

• Press release: Launch of the 2nd Haseko Condominium Museum Disaster Preparedness Festa（Japanese Only）
• Press release: Haseko Technical Center hosts children-centered workshops（Japanese Only）

Hosoda Corporation: Regional coexistence activities in Suginami-ku

Hosoda Corporation’s efforts to serve as a good corporate citizen include organizing cultural exchange initiatives to promote artistic and cultural activities and hosting seminars and events to support people’s lives, with the aim of realizing comfortable and affluent communities and societies and their sustainable development. Through these activities, Hosoda Corporation promotes active participation and living together with local community of Asagaya in Suginami-ku, in which the company's head office is located.

Contribution to improving the QOL (Quality Of Life) and revitalizing the local community

Hosoda Corporation is working to help improve the QOL of local people and revitalize the community by actively engaging in local events, providing knowledge and information about houses and living, and extending assistance to resolve annoyances and inconveniences in daily life.

Major activities to date

・Establishing a “Vacant House Utilization Consultation Service” in cooperation with Suginami-ku
・Implementing tours to learn about the structure of houses
・Woodwork experience events and visits to local elementary schools to give woodworking lessons
・Holding events and seminars to support people’s living and houses
・Assistance extended by the “House and Living Support Office” to help solve inconveniences and flaws of houses and annoyances related to houses and living in general
・Participation in and sponsoring of local events such as Asagaya Star Festival and Asagaya Jazz Street

Related Information

• Hosoda Corporation: CSR activities (Japanese Only)

Comprehensive cooperation agreement with Fukuoka Prefecture

In May 2023, Fukuoka Prefecture and Haseko Corporation concluded a comprehensive cooperation agreement for the purpose of addressing regional issues, revitalizing the region and improving prefectural citizen services by way of collaborative activities that contribute to society in Fukuoka Prefecture.
We will contribute to the creation of a mutually cooperative society in Fukuoka Prefecture by promoting activities that leverage know-how and attractiveness of the Haseko Group* in cooperation with Fukuoka Prefecture.

*12 Group companies including Haseko Corporation, Haseko Community Kyushu Inc., Haseko Reform Inc. and Haseko Livenet, Inc. are developing business in Kyushu district centering on Fukuoka Prefecture.

Related information

• Press Release (Japanese Only)

Main activities in fiscal 2023

Participation in Shiba District Clean Campaign

Since 2009, the Haseko Group has participated in the Shiba District Clean Campaign promoted by Tokyo's Minato-ku. On May 11, and October 12, 2023 and February 15, 2024, a total of 21 Group employees participated in the campaign, contributing to the initiative to keep the region safe and clean by activities such as area clean-up and promoting awareness of the prohibitions against smoking on the street and littering.

Osaka City-Wide “Osaka Marathon ‘Cleanup’ Mission”

Since 2006, the Haseko Group has participated in the “Osaka Marathon ‘Cleanup’ Mission” organized by Osaka City in collaboration with the Osaka Marathon. For the 18th edition of the event in fiscal 2023, a total of 323 Group employees participated on February 15 and 16 by carrying out clean-up activities in the vicinity of the Group’s properties before work.

Clean-up of areas surrounding construction sites

Haseko Corporation collaborates with its cooperating companies to proactively carry out clean-up activities in areas surrounding each of its construction sites.

Activities of various Group companies

Haseko Reform: Implementation of Nakaoe Park clean-up

Since 2018, volunteers from the Kansai branch of Haseko Reform hold a clean-up of Nakaoe Park every third Thursday of the month. Nakaoe Park is one of the designated temporary evacuation sites in the vicinity of the company.

Okinawa region: Implementation of clean-up activities around company offices

Since 2016, Haseko Community Okinawa holds a clean-up of the neighborhood around its office on the last Tuesday of every month.

Haseko-tecno: Implementation of clean-up activities around Kansai Equipment Center

Since 2017, Haseko-tecno has held joint clean-ups of sidewalks in the vicinity of Haseko Equipment Center and the embankments of the Yodogawa river with cooperating companies.

Haseko Real Estate: Implementation of clean-up activities around stores

Since 2023, as part of Haseko Real Estate's contributions to regional communities, the company has held regular clean-up activities for areas surrounding its fifty stores across Japan as well as the areas surrounding its head office.

Haseko Vietnam: Implementation of clean-up activities around "THE AUTHENTIC" serviced apartments

Every other week, Haseko Vietnam holds clean-up activities for areas surrounding "THE AUTHENTIC" serviced apartments developed, designed, and built by Haseko Corporation.

Platinum Partner of the “Future of Life” installation at Expo 2025

The Haseko Group is a Platinum Partner sponsor of the “Future of Life” thematic installation created by thematic producer Hiroshi Ishiguro at the Signature Pavilion thematic project of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. The Group contributes in-kind design collaboration and construction services as well as materials to the installation. This installation's thematic project name is “Amplification of Lives.” By constructing and displaying what lives might look like fifty or a thousand years from now, it is hoped that visitors will enjoy an unforgettable experience. Producer Hiroshi Ishiguro and sponsor companies co-create the “Future of Life,” depicting new ways of being alive as humans and a society based on advanced IT and robotics technology which Producer Hiroshi Ishiguro is developing. Through the Signature Pavilion, he will convey his vision of the living environment and housing in an ideal society of the future shared by humans and robots to the world.

Ishimoto Architectural & Engineering Firm, Inc. is responsible for design, while design cooperation is provided by Haseko Corporation. The Haseko Group and FUJIKENSETSU are jointly undertaking construction work (excluding demolition and part of the works).

関連情報

• Signature Pavilion’s “Future of Life” website
• Press Release（Japanese　Only）

Donation to Kyoto University of the “Former Residence of the late Dr. Hideki Yukawa”

In August 2021, as an act of corporate social responsibility, Haseko Corporation acquired the residence of Dr. Hideki Yukawa, Japan’s first Nobel Prize winner in Physics, and donated the property to Kyoto University (President: Nagahiro Minato). The residence, near Kyoto’s Shimogamo Shrine, is where Dr. Yukawa spent his last years. Haseko Corporation made the donation to affirm its agreement with Kyoto University’s desire to make effective use of the building to pass on the achievements and footprints of the late Dr. Yukawa to future generations, to develop our country’s science, technology, and arts in the future, and to develop human resources.
In 2023, maintenance and renovation works to ready the property to last well into the future commenced, with Tadao Ando Architect & Associates contributing reconstruction design services to the University and our Group’s Hosoda Corporation and Kyoto-based traditional Japanese carpenters, Yasuimoku Koumuten Co., Ltd., handling construction. In March 2024, the works were completed and the building handed over to Kyoto University. Parts of the building that evoke a connection to Dr. Yukawa were retained, while contributing to the landscape of the city. The building, bearing the name of Kyoto University’s Shimogamo Kyueiso, will host the University’s esteemed guests and serve as a space for its faculty for educational, research, and conference purposes.

Special Sponsor of the Prince Chichibu Cup All Japan Intercollegiate Ekiden

The Haseko Group will sponsor the “Prince Chichibu Cup 56th All Japan Intercollegiate Ekiden,” scheduled to be held on November 3, 2024, as a special sponsor. The Group began to engage in this special sponsorship in 2019, and this is the sixth time supporting the event in this way.
Employees of the Haseko Group supported the event under the theme of “Go for it, runners! Go for it, employees! A handmade ekiden, created by everyone,” signifying their proactive support. From June, over 400 Group employees gathered from around the nation to provide support as one, at ad-hoc regional qualifying races held across 8 regions across Japan as well as the main competition.
The “Haseko Cheering Special Site” (available in Japanese only) features the latest information about the regional qualifying races as well as photos of employees cheering them on from all over the country. In addition, supporting messages from Japan’s wheelchair tennis representative, Manami Tanaka (a member of Haseko Corporation), and other Haseko athlete employees were posted on the site, adding to the excitement of the main race. The entire Haseko Group is supporting the competition and the athletes by providing Haseko’s original souvenirs. In addition to the mineral water with Haseko’s original Ekiden label, which has been well-received by participating teams every year, this year, a new mini key holder for bottles will be added to the lineup.
Through this special sponsorship, we will contribute to the promotion of sports and the development of local communities, as well as strive to increase our recognition and corporate value as a corporate group that is expanding its business nationwide in addition to the Kanto, Kansai, and Tokai areas.

Related Information

• Go for it! Special site for the 2024 Intercollegiate Ekiden (Japanese only)

Sponsorship of the “MINATO City Half Marathon”

Since the 2nd edition of the event in 2019, the Haseko Group has been a platinum sponsor of the “MINATO City Half Marathon,” a sporting event for people of all ages from children to seniors, all nationalities, with or without disabilities, for the purpose of realizing a mutually beneficial society through sports.

The MINATO City Half Marathon in fiscal 2023

Participation in “Open House Osaka”

“Open House Osaka” is Japan’s largest architectural event showcasing attractive architecture in Osaka on a weekend in the fall of every year. The Company has supported and participated in this event since 2019.

Related Information

• Open House Osaka (Japanese Only)

Sponsorship of environmental conservation activities by “Jumokui Jimbe General Incorporated Association”

“Jumokui Jimbe” is a general incorporated association located in Kinan, Wakayama whose environmental protection and preservation activities include conservation of Kumano cherry trees.*
The Company sponsors the association’s activities in support of its wish that the region’s Kumano cherry trees, which are at risk of vanishing, continue to flourish, and its environmental conservation efforts across the board.
In 2022, we planted six Kumano cherry trees on the grounds of the “Nanki Shirahama BRANCHERA Resort,” a holiday facility for employees. We will continue to contribute to the region with our efforts in environmental protection and preservation, while carefully nurturing these saplings in a good environment to leave Kumano cherry trees for the future generations.

*Cherry trees that have grown naturally in Kozagawa town since historic times without being cross bred with non-native cultivated cherry.

Sponsorship of the “SEIJI OZAWA MATSUMOTO FESTIVAL”

The “SEIJI OZAWA MATSUMOTO FESTIVAL” is an international musical festival formerly named the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in honor of the late Hideo Saito, a great musical educator. Since 1992, the festival has been held every summer in Matsumoto city, Nagano, led primarily by conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Saito Kinen Orchestra.
The Company has sponsored the event from its inception, concurring with its goals to be an “international music festival in Japan,” to nurture the next generation of young musicians, and to support the musical education of elementary and middle school students. We will continue with initiatives to support the development of artistic and cultural activities through our sponsorship of the festival.

Support for those affected by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake

Through the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Haseko Corporation has donated to contribute to the recovery of the local community by reviving the culture of the affected areas and restoring artistic and cultural activities, supporting the hearts and minds of those affected by the disaster through arts and culture.
We express our heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the victims of the disaster and sincerely wish for the swift restoration of the affected areas.