We received a letter of appreciation from the Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture.

December 13, 2024

At the Letter of Appreciation Ceremony held at the Kanagawa Prefectural Office on December 10th, we received a letter of appreciation from Governor Yuji Kuroiwa for our continued participation in the Kanagawa Prefecture's Forest Regeneration Partner Program.

Under this system, the prefecture, companies, and organizations are working on forest regeneration based on the "Kanagawa Forest Regeneration 50-Year Plan" to pass on the rich blessings of Kanagawa Prefecture's forests to the next generation. Our company has its head office in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and has multiple business offices throughout the prefecture. As a water user ourselves, we deeply sympathize with this system, which promotes water source conservation activities from the perspective of sustainability, and have been participating in it since 2019.

This year, new employee training was also conducted at the Yadori Water Source Forest in Ashigarakami District, Kanagawa Prefecture, with over 50 participants taking part in hands-on forest conservation activities.

Forest regeneration and conservation activities are one of the initiatives towards our Group's materiality of "contributing to the realization of a carbon-free society and an environmentally friendly circular economy." We obtained naming rights for the forest from Kanagawa Prefecture and named it "The Forest that Connects the Earth, Ocean, and Sky." We will continue to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society through activities that lead to reducing GHG emissions and preserving biodiversity.

[Contact information regarding this matter]

Corporate Planning Department Public Relations/IR Section

Contact: Suganuma/Kurosaka TEL:03-3238-6555