Involvement in Local Communities
Willing to keep a good relationship with local communities, MARUWA Group supports cultural and artistic activities and environmental activities.
Activities for Culture and Arts
MARUWA Christmas Concert
This concert is held in December every year under MARUWA's auspices at Seto-city, the place of its founding. This free concert before an invited audience started out in 2008 from the sentiment that "MARUWA owes what it has grown into today to the support of the people of its local communities and wishes to repay the kindness, by however little, through the medium of music." All affairs on the day are run by volunteers from among our members, and the venue is characterized by a spirit of hospitality toward the audience and polished social etiquette.
Public Interest Corporation FUNDACIÓN MARUWA FOMENTO DE BAILE ESPAÑOL
We support artists who have burning passion and big dreams. Through our Fundación, we support the cultivation of young flamenco artists and contribute to activities popularizing the splendidness of flamenco.
Activities for Environmental Protection
Association of the Village of Firefly in Jokoji
Out of sympathy for the activities of the Association of the Village of Firefly in Jokoji, which carries out preservation of a village wood where fireflies live, we have donated a piece of land in our possession (roughly 16,000 m2 in area) to Seto-city. Close to 10,000 people visit this wood every year to see the fascination of the fireflies' dreamlike glows.
Ecocap activities
Ecocap is a campaign to sort out plastic bottle caps for separate collection. It was begun by the NPO Ecocap Movement to promote recycling and curb CO2 generation. It further involves activities to deliver vaccines to children in developing countries around the world by means of the proceeds from sales of bottle caps. In support of these activities, we have set up bottle cap collection boxes in the dining halls at our Toki, Seto, Naoetsu and Kasugayama Plants. The fiscal year 2011, some 200,000 bottle caps were collected via these boxes and delivered to Ecocap Movement.
