T&D Life Group is working on social contribution activities as a Group engaged in the life insurance business which is highly social and public in nature. Reports on the main activities are as follows.
Improving Health and Welfare
Blood Drive
The T&D Life Group cooperates with blood drives hosted by the Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Metropolitan Blood Center. The head office departments (Tokyo) of each company hold biannual blood drives in summer and winter, and executives and employees are encouraged to donate blood. In fiscal 2016, a cumulative total of 314 people in the Group participated in the drive.
Friends of Taiyo Life Goodwill Circle
The Friends of Taiyo Life Goodwill Circle (“Friends”) established in December 2005 comprises executives and employees of Taiyo Life and its affiliates, which has 8,632 members as of March 31, 2017. To support social contribution activities, the members contribute every month odd amounts under 100 yen, or any amount from 100 yen to 1,000 yen, integral multiple of 100 yen, from their take-home salary.
<Main Activities in FY2016>
- Contribution to Local Communities: Support for those affected by the Kumamoto Earthquakes, collection and donation of pull tabs, aluminum cans and PET bottle caps and a wooden flute club paying visits to nursing home (assisting transportation cost).
- Educational support: Donation of school bags to children in Afghanistan through JOICFP (a public interest incorporated associations)
Daido Life Social Contribution Club
The Daido Life Social Contribution Club established in 1992 as a voluntary organization for corporate citizenship activities, which comprises Daido Life’s executives and employees, works to promote and support fundraising activities and volunteer activities. In addition, the club has been implementing the Oneday Outing Volunteer Activity for the Physically Disabled since 1994. Under this program, employees take volunteer work leave to help people with physical disabilities to take part in an outing, who rarely have the opportunity to go outside in everyday life.
<Main Activities in FY2016>
- Fundraising and donation: Proceeds from donations from executives and employees and revenues from the charity calendar exhibitions were used as funds to make contributions to organizations that support social charitable activities and facilities for the disabled, including those facilities affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes.
- Volunteer activities: Participating as volunteers in the National Sports Festival for People with Disabilities, conducting the One-day Outing Volunteer Activity for the Physically Disabled, and participating in clean-up activities in the areas surrounding the Osaka and the Tokyo head office.
Support for the Japan Down Syndrome Society
Taiyo Life and Friends of Taiyo Life Goodwill Circle support the Japan Down Syndrome Society.
<Main Activities>
- The company supports activities as a co-sponsor of the society
- Provide Taiyo Life conference rooms for venues for seminars held by the society and for meetings of its Board of Trustees and Board of Directors
- Executives and employees of branches and head office departments of the company participate as volunteers in the society’s activities
Supporting Sports for People with Disabilities
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 2016, the Kibokyo Iwate National Sports Festival of Japan, was attended by around 300 volunteers who support the event by observing ceremonies and operating booths, including executives and employees of Daido Life together with members of their alliance partners, and executives and employees of Taiyo Life.
Since January 2015, the company has 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.
- * The National Sports Games for the Mentally Handicapped merged with the National Sports Games for the Physically Disabled in 2001, and has been held as the National Sports Festival for People with Disabilities since then.
Developing a Sound Society
Nationwide Clean Campaign
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.
In fiscal 2016, 5,722 employees (including family members) from the head office, affiliates and branches took part in this campaign.
Endowed Open Courses at Universities
Daido Life has been endowing open courses at universities every year, beginning with the company’s centenary celebrations in 2002. The courses set lecture themes that interweave theories and practical examples. The courses provide owners 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 13,000 people in total over the past 15 years.
In fiscal 2016, courses were held at nine universities across Japan, including Japan Women’s University. Asako Hirooka (a female industrialist in Japan’s Meiji and Taisho periods who was one of the founders of Daido Life) was involved in the founding of Japan Women’s University.
