2015 – No. 03 7 August 2015 Corporate Culture which employees create together with the local, 122 case studies Announcement of Selection Result: Certification of Corporate Mecenat ‘This is MECENAT 2015’ In this year of ‘This is MECENAT’, 122 activities throughout the country have been selected – including 29 that have been ongoing since before 1990, referred to as ‘the first year of Mecenat’. Selected activities diversely vary from gallery and museums, cultural awards system and lobby concerts. The reason why Mecenat activities have been continued to be successful and stabilized, is because these activities have become cultural climate for coprorations. ‘This is MECENAT’ is the certification system to elicit Mecenat activities by corporations, corporate foundations, and private activities federations, awarded by Kigyo Mecenat Kyogikai (Association for Corporate Support of the Arts). And this is the second year. MECENAT Mark 2015 (certificated activiites) From top left: Kitakagaya Creative Village (Chishima Real Estate. Inc), Hotel Okura Tokyo Lobby Concert 25, Utilizing the Sake Brewery for cultural activities (Hachinohe Shuzo Co., Ltd) From Bottom left: Nihon Sinyaku Children Literature Award,Tonen General Children’s culture Award, Maintenance and management of kokindenjyunoma (Koindenhyunoma Kobai) The selection was commenced by 5 judges, with Prof. Hiroshi Harashima (honorary professor of Tokyo University) as a chairman. Kigyo Mécénat Kyogikai (Association for Corporate Support of the Arts) http://www.mecenat.or.jp/en/ This is MECENAT http://mecenat-mark.org/en/ Kigyo Mécénat Kyogikai (Association for Corporate Support of the Arts) is a Public Interest Incorporated Association, a private association which corporations and organizations involved in cultural sectors participate and corporate, for the purpose of social creativity by art and cultural promotion, and its business is varied such as the promotion of corporate mecenat, research/investigation, certification/award, exchange, and transmission of cultural promotion. Chairman Mr. Tatsuyoshi Takashima (Chairman of dentsu Inc.)/ Mr. Motoki Ozaki (Chairman of the Board of Kao Corporation) Members: 171 corporations and organizations/ 20 individuals (As of July 2015) [Contact] Public Relations: Marie Sakamoto This is MECEANT /MECENAT Award: Aki Uchida & Emiko Shirota Address: Aise Shiba Bldg. 8F, 5-3-2, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014 JAPAN Telephone: +81-(0)3-5439-4520 | FAX: +81-(0)3-5439-4521 | E-mail mecenat@mecenat.or.jp /msakamoto@mecenat.or.jp Association for Corporate Support of the Arts | Aise Shiba Bldg. 8F, 5-3-2, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014 JAPAN phone +81 (0)3 5439 4520 | facsimile +81 (0)3 5439 4521 「This is MECENAT 2015」List of Activities NAME OF GROUPS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 PLACE URBANET CORPORATION Co., Ltd. IHI Scube Co., Ltd. Tokyo ART MEETS ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION Tokyo AOI Pro. Inc ASAHI-SHUZO SAKE BREWING CO., LTD. Tokyo Art inn “Special Olympics Nippon” Our support in 2015: Production of their official promotional film SanDo Concert Niigata Tokyo Osaka Gas Osaka Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka OKASHI NO KOBAI Osaka Open Storage for Large Artworks Kumamoto KOBAI ART AWARD Kao Corporation Tokyo Kao Family Concert in Tochigi 17 21 22 Kao Family Concert in Saijyo Tokyo Tokyo Kyoto Katolec Canon Inc. GRAND MARBLE Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. Kokindenjyunoma Kobai Kumamoto Maintenance and management of kokindenjyunoma KONICA MINOLTA, INC. Tokyo Osaka 23 Special Exhibition of JYUNICHI NAKAHARA'S Works New Cosmos of Photography Exhibitions/events management in Gallery PARC Artarea-b1 Deep sea exhibition 24 25 Asahi Beer Mecenat Asahi Art Festival 2015 Sumida River Art Project 2015 "Enjoying Edo: Edo schemes, plots, and plans" Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum Of Art Asahi Art Square Asahi Beer Lobby Concert Osaka Gas Healing Music Concerts, sponsored through the Small Light Campaign Kansai Drama Support for OMS (Ougimachi Museum Square) Drama Award management Support for High School OMS Drama Award Asashi Breweries, Ltd. 16 18 19 20 NAME OF ACTIVITIES Aurora Exhibition seen from space SUMMIT, INC. Tokyo Suntory Holdings Limited Osaka The 25th Ohmiya-Hachimangu “Suginami Hanagasa Matsuri” Suntory & Japan Kogei Association Omoshiro Bijyutsu Classroom in Tohoku 26 27 The Vienna Philharmonic and Suntory Music Aid Fund 28 29 CBC TELEVISION CO., LTD JTB Corp. Aichi Tokyo CBC Club Culture Award (Kuchinashi Award) JTB Interchange Culture Award 30 Shizuoka Shinkin Bank Shizuoka Those local resources circulation type, people, dream building support activities SHISEIDO CO., LTD. Tokyo Planning and Administration of Shiseido Gallery Planning and Administration of Shiseido Art House Editing and Publishing Hanatsubaki Magazine (incl. website and online application) Hanatsubaki Award for Contemporary Poetry Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL Arts Foundation Tokyo Shell Art Award Tokyo Kioi-Hall twentieth aniversary Seven Bank, Ltd. Tokyo A Contribution for the Picture book "The Forest Warrior, Bonolon" to foster the next generation. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 1 Association for Corporate Support of the Arts | Aise Shiba Bldg. 8F, 5-3-2, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014 JAPAN phone +81 (0)3 5439 4520 | facsimile +81 (0)3 5439 4521 「This is MECENAT 2015」List of Activities NAME OF GROUPS 38 39 PLACE The Piano Teachers' National Tokyo Association of Japan 42 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. FACE Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Puppet Theater “Himawari Hall” TAISEI CORPORATION Tokyo 45 Maison des Musées du Monde Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. Tokyo 48 49 50 51 52 Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd./ DNP Foundation for Cultural Tokyo Promotion 58 Web magazine artscape Communication Plaza Dot DNP Louvre – DNP Museum Lab Workshops Research Grants for Academic Studies Relating to Graphic Design and Graphic Art Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection Kyoto ddd gallery ginza graphic gallery (ggg) 53 54 55 56 57 "Sompo Japan Nipponkoa's Smiles Delivering Troupe!" Sends Out Encouragement to Children in a disaster-hit area Galerie Taisei DNP Kyoto Uzumasa Cultural Heritage Gallery 46 47 PTNA Piano Encyclopedia Tokyo 43 44 PTNA Classroom Concert Art Appreciation through Dialogue 40 41 NAME OF ACTIVITIES Takenaka Corporation Osaka Takenaka Corporation/ GALLERY A4 Osaka Chishima Real Estate Co., Ltd. Osaka 59 Quarterly PR Magazine [approach] Maggie's Center To live in the City 16 Experiments of the Dojunkai Let’s join the world with LEGO – The switch to ignite kid’s curiosity Kitakagaya Creative Village Project Kitakagaya Minna-nouen (creative farm) 60 DIC Corporation Tokyo Arbors of Art : Eleven Rooms Where Paintings Reside 61 62 63 TOA Corporation dentsu Tokyo International Forum Hyōgo Tokyo Tokyo TOA Music Workshop Kokoku shogakko project La Folle Journée au Japon 2015 64 Tokyo Midtown Management Tokyo Co., Ltd. 65 66 Tonen General Group Toyoko inn Co., Ltd. Tokyo Tokyo Tonen General Children’s Culture Award ART FACTORY JONAN-JIMA TOPPAN PRINTNG CO., LTD. Tokyo BIBLIOTHECA APOSTOLICA VATICANA EXHIBITION II Books, the Doors to the Renaissance 67 68 Tokyo Midtown Award 2015 (Art Competition & Design Competition) Toppan Charity Concert 2 Association for Corporate Support of the Arts | Aise Shiba Bldg. 8F, 5-3-2, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014 JAPAN phone +81 (0)3 5439 4520 | facsimile +81 (0)3 5439 4521 「This is MECENAT 2015」List of Activities NAME OF GROUPS PLACE NAME OF ACTIVITIES 69 Toyota Master Players, WIEN 70 71 72 Toyota Choreography Award Net TAM Toyota Children Meet Artists Program 73 Scientific Jack-in-the- Box! The Why/What Lecture TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION Aichi Shimane Osaka Craft in action 82 Nakamura Brace Co., Ltd. THE JAPAN WOOL TEXTILE Co., Ltd. NIPPON SHINYAKU CO., LTD. Toyota Youth Orchestra Camp Toyota Music Library Toyota Lobby Concert Toyota Community Concert Toyota Automobile Museum Classic Car Festival Toyota Automobile Museum Exhibitions Nakamura Brace Iwami Ginzan Culture Award Kyoto Nippon Shinyaku Children Literary Award 83 Nippon Koei Co., Ltd. Tokyo Support activity for promoting reading at Japan-Kenya Friendship Sondu/Miriu Public Library NIPPON SHUPPAN HANBAI INC. JAPAN TRANSOCEAN AIR Co., Ltd. Tokyo Books for Kids to Big Dreams Project Okinawa JTA/RAC Aozora Competition NOMURA HOLDINGS, INC. Tokyo 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 Cello Collection Vol.2 Hakuju Institute for Health Science Co., Ltd. Tokyo HACHINOHE SHUZO Co., Ltd. Aomori 94 95 98 99 100 Utilizing the Sake Brewery for cultural activities Museum Lighting study for curators Panasonic Corporation Osaka Harada Co., Ltd. East Japan Railway Culture Foundation NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE EAST CORPORATION FUJIKAWA GALLERIES Inc. Gunma Japan tour exhibition of Georges Rouault Collection Art and cultural promotion activities in collaboration with Minato-ku and Shiodome-gaiku The regional contribution activity is executed through the art culture Tokyo Ekiconcert Tokyo NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Tokyo Exhibition cooperation to art museum exhibition display plan 96 97 Art of eyes and ears – improvisation concert The 3rd Art ×Art × Art Nopera AOI The 10th Hakuju Guitar Festa 2015 viva! España 2 92 93 "Let's Learn Classes" about foreign exchange and stocks and "Donated courses for universities" - to improve their financial literacy Nomura Art Prize Hakuju Bösendorfer Salon Concert Series Lunchtime Concert 101 FUJIFILM PHOTO SALON 102 Fujifilm's Photo History Museum demonstrates the archiving value of the culture of photography and the historical development of cameras. 103 104 105 FUJIFILM Corporation Tokyo Heart to heart communication -" PHOTO IS" 30,000-person photo exhibition The underlying principle of Fujifilm photo contests is to preserve and further develop the culture of photography. Fujifilm photo collections contribute to sustaining and developing the culture of photography 3 Association for Corporate Support of the Arts | Aise Shiba Bldg. 8F, 5-3-2, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014 JAPAN phone +81 (0)3 5439 4520 | facsimile +81 (0)3 5439 4521 「This is MECENAT 2015」List of Activities NAME OF GROUPS PLACE 106 107 Hotel Okura Tokyo Lobby Concert 25 POLUS CO., LTD. HOLBEIN WORKS. LTD. MITSUBISHI ESTATE CO., LTD. MURAOKA SOHHOMPO CO., LTD. YAMATO HOLDNGS CO., LTD. Yuki Engineering Co., Ltd. UNION TOOL CO. Hotel Okura Music Award Treasured works of Art – Charity Art Collection ‘The Feast of Beauty’ with the Rimpa School, Seiho, Taikan and Shoen Saitama MinamiKoshigaya- awaodori Osaka The 30th Holbein Scholarship Tokyo Kira Kira Art Competition for children with disabilities Activity to deepen the understanding of yokan, the Japanese traditional Saga confection Tokyo Music TA-Q-BIN 2015 Family Concert Fukuoka Journey of Dazaifu legend Tokyo UNION TOOL Classic Program Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. Tokyo RISO KYOIKU CO.,LTD. Bank of The Ryukus, Limited. Guardian Garden Tokyo The 16th TOMAS Concert Okinawa Ryugin Bingata Design Contest Hotel Okura Tokyo Co., Ltd. 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 Tokyo 120 121 122 NAME OF ACTIVITIES Creation Gallery G8 Kyoto International Music Students Festival 2015 ROHM Co., Ltd./ Rohm Music Foundation Kyoto Rohm Music Foundation Friends Concert Vol.2 Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship Concert Vol.6~9 Activities between 1 April 2015- 31 March 2016 are registered in 「This is MECENAT 2015」. For more details, please visit on our web archive http://mecenat-mark.org/ (available till the end of July) 4 Association for Corporate Support of the Arts | Aise Shiba Bldg. 8F, 5-3-2, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014 JAPAN phone +81 (0)3 5439 4520 | facsimile +81 (0)3 5439 4521