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 Sunday, September 1st to Tuesday, September 3rd.

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. During the event, our company's billboard advertisements will be set up in front of the Hikiyama Hall and Hachiman Shrine.

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.

Under the corporate slogan "Technology & Tai-wa for Tomorrow," we will pursue economic, environmental, and social values from both business and ESG (resolving environmental and social issues and strengthening governance) aspects, with the aim of contributing to the achievement of SDGs and realizing a sustainable society and our group’s sustainable development.