Sponsorship for "Owara Kaze-no-Bon" Festival in Yatsuo, Toyama

KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION (President and CEO:  Fumiyuki Kanai, Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan) is pleased to announce a sponsorship deal for Owara Kaze-no-Bon festival held in Yatsuo, Toyama, from Thursday, September 1st to Saturday, September 3rd.

Since operation started of Toyama Technology & Manufacturing Center in Yatsuo, Toyama, in 1989, our company produces high quality, high functionality and high productivity semiconductor production equipment in the Center, delivering to the world’s top semiconductor manufacturers. Just the same we had done for years, this year also, as the company located in Toyama, we have come forward to sponsor Owara Kaze-no-Bon festival held in Yatsuo, representing an event of Toyama in order to contribute the prefecture sustainable development and their invigorating local communities.

Under the corporate slogan: “Technology & Tai-wa for Tomorrow,” the KOKUSAI ELECTRIC Group will continue to fulfill its corporate social responsibilities through active engagement in CSR activities for local communities, and will strive to realize a safe, comfortable, vibrant and sustainable society as well as our group’s sustainable development from both business and sustainability aspects.

Owara Kaze-no-Bon is a festival representing an event of Toyama prefecture held in Yatsuo, Toyama, Japan, every year from September 1st to 3rd. Kaze-no-Bon dancers perform to melancholic music with full of quaint atmosphere along with music harmonized by shamisen, kokyu and drum as well as singing to the note. The festival held at 11 towns in total in Yatsuo, Toyama, located both shores of Ida River, one is called old towns; Higashishinmachi, Nishishinmachi, Suwamachi, Kamishinmachi, Kagamimachi, Higashimachi, Nishimachi, Simoshinmachi, Tenmancho and the other is Fukushima -opposite shore.

As a semiconductor production equipment manufacturer, our Group provides equipment that thin film formation technologies leveraged over the years to the world’s top semiconductor manufacturers. Semiconductor devices made by our equipment are to be installed to smartphones, ICT (Information and Communications Technology) devices, etc., experiencing a rapid expansion of demand shifting from ones for traditional consumers to high growth industries such as data centers, 5G and AI, and that are being as important roles for those world-wide digital society development.