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Tamura business management is purposely oriented to foster relationships of trust with national and local communities through mutual understanding and to contribute to regional development. Our aim is to coexist harmoniously with society. To foster communication with local residents, Tamura Corporation invited local nursery and kindergarten children into the Head Office’s courtyard to observe a family of spot-billed ducks. Fiscal 2007 was the third year of this program. Child-rearing for pairs of spot-billed ducks that fly to the courtyard involves the laying, incubation and hatching of eggs and ends with the young ducks flying away. Young ducks are said to return here as mature ducks when they have found a mate. Young children enthralled by the ducks The Tamura Group conducts tours of business sites for local children, from kindergarten to junior high school, in order to build familiarity with places where manufacturing operations and environmental initiatives are actually carried out. Tamura Corporation’s Tokyo Plant welcomes around 10-50 visitors on up to three occasions each year. Similar tours are conducted by business sites that also seek to deepen understanding of Tamura’s business activities among residents in surrounding communities. The Tamura Group conducts internships and work experience, providing an opportunity for younger generations, who represent the future of society, to gain practical experience working in a manufacturing setting. High school, junior college, technical college and university students participating in internships engage in processes such as development, production management and administrative work over a period lasting a few weeks. This offers them an experience quite different from an ordinary part-time job. Work experience programs are offered to junior high school and high school students who learn about jobs through lectures and practical work over a period of a few days. Tamura Corporation accepts trainees as a participant in a program run by the “Japan Indonesia Association for Economy Cooperation” (JIAEC)*. Over a three-year period, trainees learn technical skills, as well as the language ability necessary for improving those skills, and living customs. At the end of the three years, the trainees will return home to apply their new techniques, skills and knowledge to support the development of their own country. * A public interest corporation under the supervision of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare established to promote economic cooperation and technology transfer (the trainee program) between Japan and Indonesia based on an intergovernmental agreement.       Nadeshiko League Tamura Corporation proudly supports the AS Elfen Sayama FC, a club competing in the Japan Women’s Football League (Nadeshiko League). Players for the women’s soccer club run by local volunteers consist mainly of women of junior high school age and over from Sayama and other parts of western Saitama Prefecture. As chief sponsor of the team for 2007, Tamura Corporation is assisting the team through the provision of training grounds and other contributions. We plan to offer communities an opportunity for enjoying soccer and other sports and pursue social contribution activities such as sports skill development for boys and girls, in addition to holding soccer schools for parents and children as well as for the disabled. AS Elfen Sayama FC Official Site Monozukuri School Communicating the wonder of manufacturing to younger generations The Tamura Group believes it bears a major responsibility to society as a manufacturer to convey the wonder of monozukuri, or manufacturing, to children, who represent our future. In July 2008, in Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Tamura Corporation held a Monozukuri School for 4th to 6th year elementary school students, in which they learned how to make an IC radio. Company employees became instructors, guiding the students through the process, teaching them, for example, how to use a soldering iron for affixing the parts necessary for an IC radio to a substrate. The radio fabrication exercise was an enjoyable experience for everybody. School Advice Network, a non-profit organization active in Suginami-ku, helped to organize the event. Employees also participated as instructors in the Monozukuri School for elementary school students run by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) as a joint effort by industry and academia to develop human resources. The instructors guided students through the assembly of electronic kits and taught them electricity basics. We plan to continue offering this kind of experience in order to communicate the enjoyment and wonder of monozukuri. PAGE TOP   (C) TAMURA Corporation, All rights reserved.