Environment and Society Regional Awareness

The Oki Group endeavors to build a positive relationship Charter of and grow together with local societies, respecting the Corporate Conduct cultures and customs of the countries and regions in which it operates.

As a member of the local communities in which its facilities are located, the Oki Group will strive to communicate with local residents, build good relationships and achieve prosperity in partnership with communities. Recognizing that people in other countries may have values The Oki Way and ways of thinking that differ from those in , the Oki Group will work to contribute to national and local development through its overseas business activities, while complying with local laws and regulations and showing respect for local history, culture and customs.

Communication with Local Communities

Oki no Sato Sports Facility Team now provides athletic coaching for schoolchildren from the local community of Kiyotake-cho. It is also building closer Oki Electric Co., Ltd. community contacts by participating in local relay races and opened the Oki no Sato other events. Sports Facility in July 2004. Every year over 100 children enroll in the coaching program, This community sports facility which is led by the team’s coach, Hiromi Taniguchi, and his staff. is located in the grounds of The children benefit from training in basic techniques, such as the company’s facilities in stretching exercises, and sports skills. Kiyotake-cho, Miyazaki Prefecture. It was created by Community Cleanup Campaigns adding all-weather tennis courts, baseball ground, and a Oki sites throughout Japan play an active part in community soccer ground with natural turf cleanup campaigns. In July 2004, for example, 57 people, to existing employee welfare including employees of six Oki Group companies in the Oki facilities. The facility is widely Numazu District and their used by local people for families, took part in a local activities designed to promote government cleanup sport and community project along the Katahama interaction, including sporting coast in Numazu City, events for schoolchildren, and Prefecture. The health programs for local volunteers collected residents. The Oki no Sato Sports Facility garbage that had washed ashore and sorted into cans, bottles, plastic and Community Sporting Interaction by Oki Running Team Volunteers help to clean up litter on the Katahama combustible waste. coast The Oki Running Team was founded in 1986 as the Oki Charity Bazaar at the Hachioji Icho Festival Miyazaki Running Team. Its present name dates from Oki Group employees in the Oki Hachioji District in ’s December 2001. It is strongly Hachioji City participate as volunteers in the annual Hachioji Icho supported by the Oki Group Festival. They and a supporters’ club, which collect items and is made up of people from run a charity bazaar Miyazaki Prefecture, the main Oki Running Team members coach children in to raise funds for area for the team’s activities. athletics the Hachioji The Oki Running Team has Welfare Council. In many notable achievements to the year ended its credit, including three March 2005 they victories in the All-Japan donated 175,641 Corporate Women’s Road yen. The bazaar also Relay. provides an To express its gratitude for opportunity for the support that it has interaction with received, the Oki Running A relay race hosted by the town Kiyotake-cho local people. Group employees working as volunteers

39 OKI Warabi Culture Festival children, a game corner, a calendar creation corner, a flea The aim of the OKI Warabi Culture Festival, which is hosted market and refreshment booths. each year by the Oki System Center in Warabi City, Local firefighters and police Prefecture, is to build closer relations with the local community. officers helped to stage events During the festival, the facility is open to members of designed to foster awareness of employees’ families and local residents. The 2004 festival was fire prevention and road safety, held on November 28. In addition to displays of Oki products, including an opportunity to ride in attractions also included workplace tours for employees’ a ladder truck. Festival participants ride in a ladder truck

Working with Local Communities

Support for Local Venture Businesses users to visit the Oki site once every two months to Since April 2003, the Oki Group’s complex has worked sell hand-made with industrial support organizations in Gunma Prefecture and confectionery to Takasaki City to support technology-based venture businesses employees during lunch and small and medium enterprises that have taken up the breaks. Selling confectionery for the Matsubokkuri Daycare challenge of diversification into new fields. As part of its support House for manufacturing in the region, Oki lends space in its local facilities to these companies as development workshops and Participation in Community Activities Led by “incubation” facilities. It also allows these companies to use Minato-Net Voluntary Network development, testing and manufacturing facilities based on Oki Group technology and provides technical assistance with tasks Minato-Net is a social contribution network made up of the required for the realization of ideas, including development, people in charge of corporate philanthropy at 20 companies and design, prototype production and assessment. two organizations (as of March 2005) in Tokyo’s Minato-ku One of the companies with a development workshop in Oki district. As a member of this network Oki participates in Group facilities is Japan Apricot Co., Ltd. In the year ended monthly meetings and seminars and promote community March 2005 it was selected for an SME support program run by contribution activities for local residents and workers. In the Gunma Prefecture. It also won the Takeo Nakagawa Prize for year ended March 2005, Minato-Net held a “Kids Performance technological excellence. Contest,” in which teams of children living or studying in Minato- ku competed to convey the concept of “work” through Supporting Computer Courses for Beginners performance activities. Another project involved a In December 2004, 14 Oki Group employees participated as charity walking tour of voluntary teachers and supporters for a beginners’ computer Minato-ku locations course held in the rooms of Warabi Chamber of Commerce and mentioned in Chushingura, a Industry in Warabi City, Saitama Prefecture. famous story of samurai The course is organized each year by the Warabi Chamber of loyalty and revenge. The “Kids Performance Contest” Commerce and Industry and Warabi City for residents and workers in Warabi. Participants become familiar with computing by learning to make New Year greeting cards. The text used in the course was produced by a team of computer volunteers made up of Oki Group Topics Activities by Overseas Group Companies employees. Supporters provide one-on-one tuition on points that are difficult to Assistance for Children and the Elderly grasp solely from the Employees of Oki Data do Brasil, Ltda., a printer sales lectures. Since 2001, company in Brazil, have formed a committee, with the information technology support of the company’s human resource department, to advisory sessions have been carry out social contribution activities in the local area. The run at the same time to group gives clothing and provide advice about all toys to underprivileged aspects of computing. Participants in a computer course children and organizes various activities, including zoo trips, and Easter and Support for Sales of Goods by Local Facility for Christmas parties. It also People with Disabilities takes part from their time to The Matsubokkuri Daycare House in Honjo City, Saitama visit rest homes in the area Prefecture, which is located near an Oki Group site in the Honjo and donate hygiene A party organized by employees of Oki district, sells confectionery as part of its fund-raising activities. products and medicines. Data do Brasil The Oki Group supports the facility by inviting its workers and

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