Together with Society  Fiscal 2015 Activity Report

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 various T&D Life Group companies, as well as their family members, cooperated with clean-up activities in the Shiodome district^*, where the Group's head office is located. In fiscal 2015, a total of around 8,600 people took part in community clean-up activities across Japan.

Daido Life has been endowing open courses at universities every year, beginning with the company's centenary celebrations in 2002. These courses provide managers of small- to medium-sized businesses and their successors, as well as local residents, with opportunities for acquiring knowledge and skills concerning management, business and other subjects. The courses have been attended by over 12,000 people in total over the past 14 years.

In fiscal 2015, courses were held at seven universities across Japan, including Japan Women's University. Asako Hirooka (a female industrialist in Japan's Meiji Period (1868–1912) who was one of the founders of Daido Life) was involved in the founding of Japan Women's University.

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. In fiscal 2015, the Ki no Kuni Wakayama Festival, as this year's event was called, was attended by around 600 people who served as volunteers, including executives and employees of Daido Life together with members of their alliance partners, and executives and employees of Taiyo Life. Since January 2015, we have been undertaking initiatives to further spread and develop sports for people with disabilities in our capacity as an official partner of the Japanese Para-Sports Association.

Taiyo Life invited the people of the Ishinomaki Genki Fukko Center and together with the neighborhood association of the Shiodome district, held the “Ishinomaki Marché in Shiodome” to support a full-scale recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake through specialty products from Ishinomaki. The event attracted a large number of visitors, including not only members of T&D Life Group companies, but also people from other companies in the area and members of the local community.