On December 15, 2024, 25 of our employees and family volunteered to help preserve the environment by participating in bamboo thinning sponsored by the Japanese Bamboo Fan Club, the specified non-profit corporation, at the Kozukue Castle Site in Yokohama City. Although this activity was temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been participating continuously since 2015.

Bamboo groves should be thinned regularly to prevent them from spreading into neighboring woods and killing plants and trees, having an adverse impact on the forest environment. Regular maintenance is necessary to preserve the beauty of Japan's bamboo forests.

Under the guidance of skilled plantation workers, all the volunteers worked hard using saws to cut roots, shred culms, cut branches, split the culms and perform other maintenance work while taking care of their own safety.
A bamboo craft workshop was also held. The participants enjoyed making and decorating rakes called “Kumade” in Japanese. Kumade is a traditional Japanese New Year decoration which is said to rake good fortune.

This time, the cut bamboo will be transformed into bamboo fences that will protect the forest environment at the Kozukue Castle Site.

On October 7, 2023, 27 of our employees and family volunteered to help preserve the environment by participating in bamboo thinning sponsored by the Japanese Bamboo Fan Club, the specified non-profit corporation, at the Kozukue Castle Site in Yokohama City. This was the first time in eight years since 2015 that bamboo thinning was conducted there, and the first time in four years since 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, making this the sixth time in total that bamboo thinning has been conducted. This year, CEO Mr. Tanimura himself participated in the event, which greatly boosted the morale of all participants.

Bamboo groves should be thinned regularly to prevent them from spreading into neighboring woods and killing plants and trees, having an adverse impact on the forest environment.
Regular maintenance is necessary to preserve the beauty of Japan's bamboo forests.

Under the guidance of skilled plantation workers, all the volunteers worked hard using saws to cut roots, shred at 3-meter intervals, cut branches, and perform other maintenance work while taking care of their own safety.

The cut bamboo will be transformed into more than 5,000 bamboo lanterns at the 20th Bamboo Lantern Festival to be held on November 4 in the Citizen's Forest.

Hankyu Hanshin Osaka Cargo Terminal (HOCT, Osaka-city), certified with the environmental management system standard ISO 14001, received award from the Mayor of Osaka for its achievements of longtime-continuous 3R-Activities (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) in October, 2020.

HOCT has been striving to do 3R in line with the ISO 14001 on a daily basis by all the members and will continue to engage in environment friendly activities to achieve sustainable society.

On November 2nd, 2019, a group of 25 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in bamboo thinning sponsored by NPO "Nihon no Take Fan Club (Japanese Bamboo Fan Club)" at the bamboo grove beside the Yokohama International Swimming pool.

In this year, we cut bamboo into 3 meters length to be able to reuse as bamboo fences.

The participants made a concerted effort to clean up the bamboo grove with hope of changing it into a fun place.
(This program is carried out as a part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On July 20, 2019, a group of 30 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in museum tour at Tokyo Metro Museum.
This year’s theme is "reduction of CO² emissions". The railway companies have been making efforts to reduce power consumption with various ideas, we learned the transport system to be in harmony with the global environment by experiencing hands-on train simulator.
(This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")