Together with Society

Since 1982, Taiyo Life has carried out clean-up activities in the vicinity of its head office as part of its social contribution to local communities.

Since 2004, these activities have been expanded as the Nationwide Clean Campaign, with branches across the country undertaking clean-up activities in their own local communities. Executives and employees from Group companies, as well as their family members, assisted with clean-up activities in the Shiodome district, where the Group's head office is located. In fiscal 2014, a total of around 8,100 people took part in community clean-up activities across Japan.

Daido Life has been a special sponsor of the National Sports Festival for People with Disabilities for over 20 years since the first National Sports Games for the Mentally Handicapped (Yuaipic) was held in 1992, when Daido Life celebrated its 90th anniversary. In fiscal 2014, the Nagasaki Ganbaranba Festival, as this year's event was called, was attended by around 200 people who served as volunteers, including executives and employees of Daido Life and Taiyo Life, as well as members of Daido Life's alliance partners.

Daido Life has continued to endow open courses at universities since 2002, as part of the company's centenary celebrations. These courses provide managers of small- to medium-sized businesses and their successors with opportunities for acquiring knowledge and skills relevant to management and business, and they have been well received by over 10,000 attendees in total over the past 13 years. In fiscal 2014, seven courses were held at six universities across Japan.

Since 2006, Taiyo Life has been involved in various support activities for the Japan Down Syndrome Association. In 2014, Taiyo Life invited families from the Association's Tochigi Branch to join a forest studies class held in the Forest of Taiyo Life, where the company has been undertaking forest management activities since 2006. The invited families spent a pleasant day in the forest surrounded by fresh greenery.

Executives and employees of Group companies cooperated with the Project to Deliver Picture Books to the Children of Disaster-hit Areas, organized by the Japan Philanthropic Association. Through this project, the Group was able to donate a total of 1,381 picture books collected from across Japan to the children in disaster-hit areas.