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Sustainability Activities (ESG)

Social Contribution Activities / Support for Communities

Basic Policy and Approach

 
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Social Contribution Activities /
Support for Communities

Basic Policy and Approach

The Mitsubishi Estate Group has set out to "contribute to creating a truly meaningful society through urban development" as stated in its Group mission. The Group has also established the Mitsubishi Estate Group Code of Conduct to articulate the actions needed to implement the carrying out of this mission. Further, it has implemented the Mitsubishi Estate Group Guidelines for Conduct which set out the specific standards of conduct in order to realize "who we aspire to be, how we aspire to be perceived, and what we should do in order to achieve these aspirations," as established in the Code of Conduct. The Group Guidelines stipulate the realization of sustainability, and we endeavor to ensure continued enhancement of corporate value, sustainable social development, and conservation of the global environment by creating long-term value through sound business practices.

In addition, the Group established its Guidelines on Social Contribution Activities in April 2008, revising the Social Contribution Activity Philosophy (created in 1994) from viewpoints including changing social issues and the necessity of implementing Group-wide initiatives. Group companies abide by these guidelines when conducting their activities as they engage in their respective businesses.

We also implement community investment, engage with NGOs, and participate in initiatives to better contribute to the society. Our focus areas — harmony with the local community, support for culture and the arts, environmental conservation, and social welfare — are set out in the Group Guidelines and linked to the Group's business strategy.

Mitsubishi Estate Group Guidelines on Social Contribution Activities

  • 1.Solutions to social issues together with corporate growth: As a good corporate citizen, we work to resolve social issues with the added benefit of achieving corporate growth through such activities.
  • 2.Development of activities characteristic of the Mitsubishi Estate Group: We carry out unique social contribution activities, both within and outside its business spheres, which are characteristic of the Group and utilize its management resources.
  • 3.Ties with community: We engage in transparent and fair activities in affiliation with various groups, based on equal footing, trust and dialogue.
  • 4.Priority areas: We prioritize harmony with the local community, support for culture and the arts, environmental conservation and social welfare.

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Goals and Achievement Status

Goals and Achievement Status

The Mitsubishi Estate Group has established “Sustainability of the Mitsubishi Estate Group and Society: Four Key Themes” under its Long-Term Management Plan 2030 as a means to accelerate its efforts to resolve social issues through business activities and continue to be a company needed by the next generation. The Group is working to achieve the policies and targets it has set out in line with these four key themes, which are to (1) pursue tangible and intangible aspects of urban development that it can proudly pass on to the next generation, (2) maintain our commitment to reducing environmental impact, (3) consider people, empathize with people, protect people, and (4) create and circulate new value.

The Group will also promote initiatives with an eye on these key themes in its social contribution activities. We will engage in autonomous activities in the areas of harmony with local communities, support for culture and the arts, environmental conservation, and social welfare, the four priority areas under the Mitsubishi Estate Group Guidelines on Social Contribution Activities. In addition, we will work to enhance the value of the neighborhoods and create economic benefits through partnership and collaboration with diverse stakeholders, including NGOs, NPOs, and the public and private sectors, while continuing to contribute to solving social issues by joining and supporting a variety of organizations.

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Supporting Employee Volunteer Activities

Programs to Support Employee Volunteer Activities

The Mitsubishi Estate Group is working to create an environment that makes it easy for people to volunteer, such as by establishing Volunteer Support Programs available to employees including Group companies.

Overview of Main Programs

Program Overview
Days off for volunteering Employees can use their accumulated days off (special PTO) for volunteering
Social learning Employees can volunteer during working hours
Volunteer insurance* The company provides insurance that compensates for accidents during volunteering (also for family members)
Activity fee subsidy* The company partially subsidizes volunteer participation and travel expenses (also for family members)
Subsidy program for volunteer’s travel expenses to disaster-affected areas* The company partially subsidizes travel expenses for volunteering related to disasters covered under the Disaster Relief Act (also for family members)

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  • Program including Group company employees

See the following for the usage results of these programs.

ESG Data > S: Social data > (2) Other > 2. Diversity > Number of employees using personnel programs

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Initiatives related to the health and wellbeing of visitors and tenant workers>EAT&LEAD — Providing Opportunities to Build "Standards of Value for Happiness" through Food

Initiatives Related to the Health and Wellbeing of Visitors and Tenant Workers

Megourmake Project Aiming to Build Enriched Relationships Between Regional and Urban Communities through Food and Agriculture

Mitsubishi Estate is developing facilities to support businesses and industries related to food and agriculture at the Otemachi Gate Building (previously known as Uchikanda 1-chome Project) scheduled for completion in January 2026. Ahead of the opening of these facilities, in partnership with Loftwork Inc., SIGMAXYZ Inc., and 70seeds, Inc., Mitsubishi Estate has initiated the Megourmake Project to support the endeavors of the regional producers and processors for the food industry, agriculture, fisheries, and livestock industry of the future.

In collaboration with regions throughout Japan, including Miyazaki City in Miyazaki Prefecture, we will provide support for the players involved in food and agriculture to co-create and take on challenges by holding “table conferences” in regional areas so that local communities can learn from one another and create new inter-regional relationships.

The Megourmake Project will encourage interaction between the producers who nurture rural communities and the consumers who live in urban communities and contribute to the development of rich food culture and an enriched society by expanding hubs for food and agriculture co-creation and networks with local governments nationwide.

Megourmake Project (Japanese only)Open new window

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EAT & LEAD — Providing Opportunities to Build "Standards of Value for Happiness" through Food

EAT LEAD

Mitsubishi Estate launched the Food Education Marunouchi Initiatives in 2008. The company has since developed numerous food-related programs working in partnership with producers, consumers, and restaurants with the aim of creating a physically and mentally healthier society. These initiatives include the inauguration of the Marunouchi Chef's Club*1 and Will Conscious Marunouchi*2, as well as hosting more than 200 events.

Mitsubishi Estate has relaunched the project in 2021 under the name EAT & LEAD, with the desire to continue to lead and set the pace for the development of venues where each individual can achieve personal happiness and growth through healthy eating habits.

Under the EAT & LEAD project, Mitsubishi Estate will develop a variety of workshops and programs dealing with food based on the three actions of increasing receptivity to food, increasing awareness of food consumption, and raising understanding of the cycle of support and growth. The aim is to help each individual examine their own measure of happiness and create opportunities for them to enhance self-fulfillment while creating a richer future together. Based at MY Shokudo Hall & Kitchen, a hall with an attached kitchen nestled on the 3rd floor in TOKYO TORCH Tokiwabashi Tower located in front of the Nihombashi Exit of Tokyo Station, EAT &L EAD nurtures connections among food professionals, rural regions, and consumers while promoting programs designed to pinpoint changing values and address social issues yet to be explored.

  • Marunouchi Chef's ClubOpen new window: Chaired by Yukio Hattori and mainly composed of chefs who own restaurants in the Marunouchi area, the Marunouchi Chef's Club was established in February 2009 with the aim of proposing and disseminating ideas about food.
  • Will Conscious MarunouchiOpen new window: A project aimed at supporting working-age women to learn together about the options for a more fulfilling future. In partnership with various companies, the goal is to create a model case for a society that enables women to work long term in good health through urban development while building upon the knowledge and opinions obtained from the Marunouchi Infirmary survey.

EAT & LEAD website (Japanese only)Open new window

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The Marunouchi Infirmary for Working Women

The Marunouchi Infirmary for Working Women

Will Conscious Marunouchi
Marunouchi Infirmary

Mitsubishi Estate is promoting the “Marunouchi Infirmary" as part of its "Will Conscious Marunouchi" project to help working women shape their future. The "Marunouchi Infirmary," born from the voices of women working in Marunouchi, is an activity to improve health literacy and provide health support to promote understanding of PMS, pregnancy and childbirth, menopause, and other issues that affect women in the workplace as well as in their own bodies and minds.

Through these activities, we are promoting well-being in urban development by working not only with our company but also with other companies that support our efforts to create a comfortable working environment and culture for women, so that working women can broaden their options in their changing life stages.

Marunouchi Infirmary (Japanese only)Open new window

New Business to Promote Wellbeing for Diverse People

WELL ROOM Co., Ltd., which originated from Mitsubishi Estate’s in-house venture system, operates WELL ROOM, a healthcare service which assists in the lives of foreigners working at Japanese companies. The service is aimed at companies that want to provide support for their employees to maintain and manage their health, given the current lack of support related to health and medical care, including a low number of medical institutions with multilingual services. WELL ROOM services cater for multiple languages and cultures including referrals to medical institutions that provide health checkups and mental health and industrial physician consultation services to create an environment in which foreign nationals working in Japan can receive healthcare services with ease.

In July 2024, Mitsubishi Estate also launched YUARITO, an accommodation service with post-natal care. It provides post-natal mothers with 24-hour support by qualified midwives, nurses, and childcare workers in the guestrooms of the Royal Park Hotel (Chuo-ku, Tokyo). This provides mothers and families who are suffering from lack of sleep and anxiety about childcare with the time, space, and reliable information and services to enable them to relax and rest and establish a positive living environment after giving birth.

  • Both WELL ROOM and YUARITO are initiatives that originated from the new business proposal program for employees.

WELL ROOM websiteOpen new window

YUARITO website (Japanese only)Open new window

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Area Management Led by the Council for Area Development and Management of Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho

Building Communities

Area Management Led by the Council for Area Development and Management of Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho

The Council for Area Development and Management of Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho (OMY Council) is a consultative body made up of landowners in the Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho districts (also known collectively as "OMY area"). Mitsubishi Estate serves as the presiding company of the Council.

Since the establishment of its predecessor organization in July 1988, the Council has set up infrastructure for urban space as well as promoting safe and secure urban planning that is sustainable and resilient in the wake of disasters. The objective is to create communities by developing and utilizing urban spaces appropriately and effectively.

The NPO OMY Area Management Association (also known as "Ligare") was established in 2002, with the goal of raising the area's value not only through the creation of physical facilities and spaces, but also via social initiatives, including the provision of corporate networking events, generation of local vitality, and support for the operation of community buses. Ligare manages Urban Terrace, in which the street space on Marunouchi Naka-Dori Avenue opened for pedestrians, allowing them to enjoy various events on the streets. It has also extended the scope of its activities to include Destination Marketing/Management Organization (DMO) Tokyo Marunouchi, which aims to invite international conferences and other meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE) to the area.

In addition, the Association for Creating Sustainability in Urban Development of the Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho Districts (also known as the "Ecozzeria Association") works on business creation aimed at realizing a sustainable society. The association operates the 3×3 Lab Future, a hub for interaction in the community, that is a "third place," neither home nor office, and holds seminars and workshops on a variety of social issues such as the environment and energy, regional revitalization, women's empowerment, and biodiversity. 3×3 Lab Future generates cycles of innovation by creating interaction between diverse human resources cutting across industry and sector boundaries, including government and academic institutions as well as private-sector companies.

Urban Terrace

Urban Terrace

Marunouchi Naka-Dori Avenue becomes increasingly important as the center of the area's vitality (left: around 1967; right: around 2018)

Council for Area Development and Management of Otemachi, Marunouchi and YurakuchoOpen new window

Ligare (Japanese only)Open new window

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Initiatives to Connect with Community and the Next Generation under the TOKYO TORCH Project

Initiatives to Connect with the Next Generation at the TOKYO TORCH District

18 Another Japan first term settler students

18 Another Japan first term settler students

Mitsubishi Estate has been implementing initiatives to help build the community at TOKYO TORCH, an urban center that it has developed at the Nihonbashi Exit of Tokyo Station. Together with Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten, a traditional craft shop based in Nara Prefecture, boasting 300 years of history, Mitsubishi Estate launched the Another Japan joint project in summer 2022. This shop sells regional specialties, using university students from all 47 prefectures of Japan divided into six groups acting as management, handling everything from purchasing to customer service and sales. The experience gained here will teach them about regional areas and management, in hopes of helping them choose their own hometowns as future places to work. This will in turn bring true revitalization to these communities with the aim of making it a place that creates a beneficial cycle for making Japan a better place.

TOKYO TORCH project website (Japanese only)Open new window

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"Experience Nature" Project Brings Together Urban and Rural Communities

"Experience Nature" Project

Experience Nature Project

Since 2008, the Mitsubishi Estate Group has been implementing the “Experience Nature” Project with the NPO Egao Tsunagete (which literally means “connecting smiles” in Japanese), located in Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture, with the goal of creating a society where urban and rural communities pool their resources and help to revitalize one another.

With this project, in addition to working with the local government to promote effective use of Yamanashi Prefecture-produced timber, employees help to cultivate and restore abandoned farmland to produce sake-grade rice using agricultural methods that do not use pesticides or chemical fertilizers.

Since 2010, the company has been working with local sake breweries and long-established confectionery stores to create new products by processing the sake-grade rice harvested through cooperative efforts into various forms, such as junmai-shu sake Marunouchi and confectionery made from sake lees. These activities and products symbolize Mitsubishi Estate’s sustainability efforts and have been utilized in a variety of settings.

In fiscal 2017, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project, junmai-shochu Otemachi, a distilled rice liquor, was released. Of the harvested sake-grade rice, the rice that did not meet the standard for junmai-shu sake was effectively utilized to produce the junmai-shochu. This shochu was developed with a brewery in Hokuto City using natural yeast (hanakoubo) obtained from sunflowers, the official flower of Hokuto City, in collaboration with the Department of Fermentation Science at Tokyo University of Agriculture.

During the course of each year’s sake-grade rice cultivation, we conduct hands-on rice planting and harvesting tours for Group employees. These tours have evolved into an opportunity for learning about the SDGs by fostering environmental awareness and deepening understanding of biodiversity issues.

Experience Nature Farm in Masutomi, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture

Experience Nature Farm in Masutomi, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture

Junmai-shu sake Marunouchi produced by Yorozuya Jozoten

Junmai-shu sake Marunouchi produced by Yorozuya Jozoten

Junmai-shochu Otemachi produced by Takenoi Shuzo

Junmai-shochu Otemachi produced by Takenoi Shuzo

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Official Partner of the Japanese Para-Sports Association

Official Partner of the Japanese Para-Sports Association

JPSA - JAPANESE PARA-SPORTS ASSOCIATION

Mitsubishi Estate became the official partner of the Japanese Para-Sports Association, also known as the JPSA, in April 2019.

The JPSA was established as the umbrella group for promoting the growth of parasports in Japan thanks to the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics Games. The Mitsubishi Group supports the JPSA cause of creating a vibrant, inclusive society, and together with the JPSA is actively engaged in efforts to grow para-athlete sports. Group employees also support parasports events as volunteers and spectators to add to the excitement.

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Providing Housing for Extremely LowIncome Families

Providing Housing for Extremely Low-Income Families

Providing Housing for Extremely LowIncome Families

TA Realty partnered with Heading Home in 2021 in an effort to help Heading Home address the growing homelessness issue in the city of Boston. Heading Home is one of the city’s largest providers of emergency, transitional and permanent housing for extremely low-income individuals and families. Heading Home not only provides shelter but also works with their clients to understand the root causes of homelessness and provides support (financial coaching, resume building, child support resources, etc) to help that individual or family on their successful path out of homelessness.

Heading Home’s Up & Out, the volunteer opportunity in 2021, paired a group of TA Realty employees with a Heading Home client and her two young daughters who were being moved out of a shelter and into their very own home. Volunteers were responsible for purchasing all of the items for the apartment (furniture, decorations, toys, cleaning supplies and food) and then spent the day cleaning and decorating the apartment. The day ended with TA Realty employees handing the keys to the home over to Heading Home’s client. TA Realty’s contribution to this move allowed the client to move into a space that already felt like home, reducing all associated financial burdens, and ending their homelessness.

TA Realty will continue to build partnership with Heading Home to create more volunteer opportunities within the community that we live and work in.

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Support for Culture and the Arts>Operating the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

Support for Culture and the Arts

Operating the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

MITSUBISHI ICHIGOKAN MUSEUM, TOKYO

Mitsubishi Estate operates the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo in the Marunouchi area of Tokyo. It presents three different exhibitions each year focusing on modern art dating from the late 19th to early 20th century. The museum is housed in a stately red brick building that was constructed in 1894 by Mitsubishi — the first office building in Marunouchi — and then restored in 2009. The museum opened in spring the following year. It was designed by the English architect Josiah Conder at the invitation of the Japanese government. Some of the building's original architectural components, such as the stone handrails for the staircases, have been reused.

Exterior of Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo

Restored bank lobby now in use as Café 1894

Former bank lobby

Museum for All Project to Make the Museum Accessible to All

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum has been holding “Empathy Week” coinciding with Human Rights Week since 2017 with the aim of creating a spirit of caring and empathy in an environment where people with and without disabilities can share an appreciation of art. In December 2021, the museum launched the new Museum for All Project, which is being implemented in stages with the aim of making visitors feel more familiar with the museum.

Note: The museum is currently closed for replacement of equipment and building maintenance and is scheduled to reopen on November 23, 2024. Future initiatives of the Museum for All Project will be announced once they are finalized.

Fiscal 2022 Museum for All activities report (Japanese only)Open new window

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, TokyoOpen new window

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Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi

Supporting Young Artists While Connecting Art, People, and Neighborhood

Mitsubishi Estate has been implementing Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi since 2007 with an aim to discover, nurture, and support the talent of young artists, and to contribute to enlivening the area through art. Graduation and diploma projects created by undergraduate and master course students at major art universities around Japan are selected and exhibited in the Marunouchi area (the Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho districts). Awards are given to talented artists with great future prospects. The exhibition has functioned as a gateway for young artists and resulted in artists participating in individual and group exhibitions, and some are active in various fields.

Mitsubishi Estate has also been holding GEIDAI ARTS in Marunouchi in partnership with Tokyo University of the Arts every year since 2007. In addition to supporting the next generation of up-and-coming artists, we have deepened our collaboration through various types of experiential art events to allow visitors to the Marunouchi area to enjoy fine arts. In December 2022, the two partners signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement to further strengthen industry-academia collaboration initiatives with a shared philosophy on increasing corporate and individual creativity, promoting the discovery of business ideas and creation of new industries, and contributing to the solution of social issues in Japan and overseas through the power of art.

Mitsubishi Estate will continue its efforts to support artists with the aim of creating places for the discovery and success of new talent while continuing to promote further revitalization of the Marunouchi area by creating opportunities that connect art, people, and the neighborhood and allow many people to enjoy art.

Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2022 (Japanese only)Open new window

Tokyo University of the Arts and Mitsubishi Estate Sign a Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement (Japanese only)PDF

Supporting Orchestras

Mitsubishi Estate has supported the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, as a special corporate supporter since 1991 as one facet of its continuing support for culture and fine arts. Mitsubishi Estate has also supported the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra as a special member since 1998, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra as a corporate supporter since 2007.

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Social Welfare>Basic Policy and Approach in Urban Development

Social Welfare

Basic Policy and Approach in Urban Development

The Mitsubishi Estate Group has set out to "create a truly meaningful society" as its Group Mission by "building attractive, environmentally sound communities where people can live, work and relax with contentment," based on the Three Principles, which is the management philosophy of the Mitsubishi Group.

In order to further promote this mission, the Mitsubishi Estate Group focuses on sustainability in urban development, including urban regeneration, taking into consideration social needs such as disaster preparedness and barrier-free access in all properties as part of the planning phase and guide the development and operation phase as well as the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases and thereby allowing diverse people — regardless of nationality, race, color, language, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, political or other opinions, national or social origins, property, disability, birth, class, or other status — to live, work and relax with contentment.

Moreover, to facilitate use by many people, we consider access to public transport during design and development stages in all properties as we select development sites and make investments. We also consider planning and design that allows individual users to live in comfort when proceeding with development and refurbishment.

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Supporting Children with Disabilities through Kira Kira Art Competition

Supporting Children with Disabilities through Kira Kira Art Competition

Exhibition of Award for Excellence winners at Marunouchi Building, Tokyo

Exhibition of Award for Excellence winners at Marunouchi Building, Tokyo

Mitsubishi Estate established the Kira Kira Art Competition in 2002, with the desire to support the full potential of children with disabilities.

The Award for Excellence-winning works, which are selected through a screening process, are exhibited in cities across Japan, from Sapporo to Fukuoka, where Mitsubishi Estate has its branches, and all entries, including the Award for Excellence-winning works, are published on the dedicated website.

What deserves note about this art competition is that past submissions have been featured in publications, including pamphlets and calendars for corporations. Moreover, some of the winners of this competition are registered as artists with Artbility*, an art library operated by the social welfare corporation Tokyo Colony, as they continue to develop their creative activities.

The competition is an opportunity to appraise and discover the rich talents of disabled children, and Mitsubishi Estate continues to provide support with the hope of expanding the breadth of artistic activities and helping them thrive.

  • An art library established in April 1986 by Tokyo Colony, a Kira Kira Art Competition partner, to help people with disabilities gain income and increase social inclusion.

Kira Kira Art Competition (Japanese only)新しいウィンドウが開きます

The “Mitsubishi Estate Shall We Concert” Brings Live Music to Children with Disabilities

Mitsubishi Estate has been holding the Mitsubishi Estate Shall We Concert (visiting concert) for students at special needs schools, who have few opportunities to leave their school and experience live music. The goals of this concert are for professional musicians to visit these schools to share the fun and charm of music, and to provide opportunities for children to learn about instruments and music.

Mitsubishi Estate works together with schools to decide the concert programs. These are not limited to classical music, as they sometimes include music from Studio Ghibli films, songs students learn in school, and school songs. These events also include opportunities for students to engage in group performances together and see musical instruments up close. The concerts also include explanations of the compositions and instruments between performances.

Since fiscal 2022, Mitsubishi Estate has been working with Tokyo International Forum to hold Marunouchi Shall We Concert, which is a spin off from the visiting concert, as part of OMY SDGs ACT5, a project that promotes activities aimed at achieving the SDGs starting with the OMY area (the Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho districts). Every year we invite around 100 students from special needs schools, providing an opportunity for them to enjoy the music in an authentic concert hall while interacting with students from other schools.

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Table for Two Delivering School Lunches to Children in Developing Countries

Table for Two Delivering School Lunches to Children in Developing Countries

TABLE FOR TWO

Mitsubishi Estate has been taking part in Table for Two since 2018, a program that supports children in developing countries through the purchase of eligible beverages and lunch menu items offered at Sparkle, the employee cafeteria at its Head Office, as a means to inspire the Group employees to think about social issues.

Table for Two is an initiative being run by the non-profit organization Table for Two International. The program aims to help improve the health of people in both developing and developed countries simultaneously. When eligible health-conscious menu items are purchased, 20 yen per meal is donated and the contribution is utilized toward providing school lunches for children in developing countries in Africa and Asia. The donation for one meal is the equivalent of one school lunch for the children.

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