Community Engagement

Aqua Art, a group company, provides “AQUA ART” decorative interior aquariums containing tropical fish and aquatic plants for rent. The company also minimizes the impact on the environment and ecosystems by procuring fish and aquatic plants through aquaculture farms. The company also minimizes the impact on the environment and ecosystems by procuring fish and aquatic plants through aquaculture farms. It has also prepared a system for providing a certain amount of fish and aquatic plants, establishing its SDG-Related Project in 2020 in which the Company breeds fish itself and reuses and cultivates aquatic plants that it brings back after maintenance operations. In addition to platy, a kind of tropical fish, it also succeeded in breeding the Japanese rosy bitterling, a freshwater fish endemic to Japan that has been designated as an endangered species. Aqua Art’s initiatives and the aquariums have featured in a special edition of the Yomiuri SDGs Newspaper: Life and the SDGs (first issue published in July 2021). In Japanese, the article was titled “Learning about ecosystems from an aquarium.”

Aqua Art also donates (rents for free) products and services to maternal and child living support facilities based on the philosophy that “AQUA ART wants to make work and life better for the people who live and work in local areas.” It also holds regular visiting lectures at facilities to which aquariums have been donated, offering children an opportunity to learn about the environment and ecosystem. In 2022, the Company held summer aquarium events at Nagareyama Otakanomori Shopping Center and Tamagawa Takashimaya Shopping Center. These included a stamp rally for completing a picture book of fish, and a learning-themed panel display of facts about fish, to communicate the fun of observing and learning about living things. The events provide an opportunity for people not only to enjoy the attraction of the aquarium, but also to consider the environment in which the fish live.

Fuyo Lease and Aqua Art also hold an annual aquarium design contest jointly with TOKYO DOME HOTEL CORPORATION. Students majoring in art and design at Tokyo Metropolitan Kogei High School and Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, as well as students studying to become aquarists at TCA Tokyo College of ECO & Animals, design and decorate aquariums which are then exhibited at the entrance and lobby of the Tokyo Dome Hotel. During the exhibition period, a contest is held in which visitors to the hotel vote for their favorite.

At Fuyo Lease, we have purchased Philanthropy Seats of the baseball stadium Fukuoka PayPay Dome and invited people from the community welfare facilities and young people in sports since fiscal 2012.

With the purchased Philanthropy Seats, 20 seats reserved per year on the first base infield side, audience members can watch the full schedule of official games of Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.

Those who attended this activity have been very pleased and we will continue to make use of these seats to maintain friendships with local communities in the future.

In order to convey the significance of work to undergraduate and graduate students who will be leading the next generation, Fuyo Lease provides internships through which the students can deepen their understanding of the leasing business and experience actual work in the industry.

The 13th internship program, held in fiscal 2022, was carried out over a period of 17 days in total between September and February, with the participation of 389 students. The program consisted of a lecture on the basics of leasing, as well as group work on creating contract documents and leasing. It also included an informal gathering where students exchanged opinions with our staff members on, for example, job challenges and differences between students and professionals.

Students participating in the program made comments such as: "the program gave me an opportunity to not only understand the leasing business but also to think about the meaning of work" and "the group work gave me an opportunity to listen to opinions that I would have never come up with, and it was also useful to hear advice from HR." A similar internship program is scheduled for fiscal 2023.