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　We hold briefing sessions by management for our quarterly financial result announcements. In addition,we also arrange opportunities to explain management information directly to investors in Japan and overseas. As a tool to report the management policies and situation of the company, we also publish the annual report and other reports in Japanese, English and Chinese, and we work to disclose information that is appropriate and highly transparent.
　In FY 2018, we launched a new e-mail delivery service that provides our latest IR information and major news releases to shareholders and investors. In order for the business situation and business strategies of the DOWA Group to be understood, we also post IR information on our company website. In addition to financial statements and securities reports, we also post materials such as annual reports and shareholder communications.
　We will keep working to disclose information in a timely and easy-to-understand manner.

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　In May 2018, as part of a school trip, 47 third-year students from Kosaka Junior High School at Kosaka town, Akita Prefecture, the area of our company’s birthplace, visited the headquarters of DOWA in the Akihabara area of Tokyo. In these tours that started from 2013, after they tour our offices and we explain our business, every year the students come up with ingenious presentations, such as song or dance,and it becomes a place for mutual exchange. In FY 2018, which was the sixth time, a choir of the students performed the school song and nursery songs. In addition, the students presented us with a calendar using the “Kosaka Municipal Day Map” prepared by the Kosaka Revitalization Action Project and photos of the town.

　The DOWA Cup, held on the shore of Lake Towada in Akita Prefecture, is a historic junior cross-country ski tournament that started in 1991, and it is certified as an official event of the Ski Association of Akita. It also serves as a Jr. Olympics representative selection race, and one of the features is the sit ski competition that is held, an official event of the Paralympics.
　Over 100 staff are involved in its operation, including our employees and people from neighborhood councils and local ski clubs etc. It takes over a month to prepare the courses. For more than a quarter of a century, the event has deepened the bond between the DOWA Group and the people of the local community, such as cooperating in setting up the venue and taking it down at the end. In February 2019, for the 29th DOWA Cup, 245 children from elementary and junior high schools in the three Tohoku region prefectures participated and competed in the races.

　The Lake Kojima Flower Corridor Supporters’ Club (KFSC) is an organization established primarily by the DOWA Group to improve the environment around Lake Kojima and its surroundings in the memory of Denzaburo Fujita, the founder of the DOWA Group, who was known for reclaiming Kojima Bay in the city of Okayama. We promote regional exchange and environmental conservation activities through the Flower Corridor Project that plants and nurtures Kawazu cherry trees around Lake Kojima. The Flower Corridor Project is a system where each cherry tree has a plate with the name of the supporter written on it, and the person planting voluntarily manages it.We are working with local people, including for the planting and care of the trees. When the Kawazu cherry trees blossom in early March, we hold a cherry blossom festival with the cooperation of the local neighborhood associations and volunteer groups. In FY 2018, the 9th Lake Kojima Flower Corridor Cherry Blossom Festival was held on March 11th, with about 20,000 people visiting.

　As Myanmar’s first private waste treatment facility, GOLDEN DOWA ECO-SYSTEM MYANMAR (hereinafter referred to as GEM), which is located in the Tirawa Economic Zone in the suburbs of Yangon,provides comprehensive waste management solutions such as transportation, sorting, intermediate treatment, recycling and landfill of waste.
　Not only contributing to society through its business, GEM aims to get the trust of society through CSR activities, and to grow together. In line with the CSR policy of the DOWA Group, GEM is working on CSR activities for all four areas of corporate governance, safety, the environment and society. In promoting social contribution, a priority measure, and in order to contribute to the local development of Myanmar, we are actively engaged in activities that improve the lives of local residents and support children who will lead the future.

　As a place to deepen exchanges with local people, from the tim e that the facilities were constructed, every May and November GE M holds workshops for the neighborhood residents that explain the business, and lectures and events on the theme of health and safety.At the tenth workshop in November 2018, we explained the operational status of our business s ites, as w ell as safety and environmental initiatives. Also, to improve road safety, there was a lecture given about the safety of driving motorcycles as a comm on way of transport, with about 50 residents participating.

　GEM’s CSR activities are based on the building of mutual trust, and at the same time as understanding the situation of local residents,working to disclose information about the company. Approximately 1,000 residents live in the villages near the district of Tirawa, where GEM is located, including those who work for the company as employees. In January 2019, we held a second tour of our business sites so that local residents could actually see GEM’s waste treatment facilities. The tour was attended by 80 people, including adults as well as local children, who saw the status of each facility as explained by local staff. Through these opportunities, GEM can feel more familiar to the local people, and we hope that this will also lead to an interest in waste treatment.

　In Myanmar, every February 13th is“ Children’s Day” when families celebrate and wish for the growth of their cherished children. GEM holds an event in February each year and invites nearby children to commemorate Children’s Day. For FY 2018, the 3rd event was held on February 17th, and gifts of sweets and soy milk were given to about 300 local children who participated. In the future, we would like to continue initiatives that the local children would enjoy.

　From new employees to managers, we have established stratified education according to job classification, and have set up an education system of selective education in order to nurture the next generation of leaders at each level. We also conduct training and meetings to implement shared awareness and edification. In FY 2018, we held new training to strengthen middle management for managers and held a human resource development manager meeting to strengthen on-site capabilities at each site. In the selective education, we also provide opportunities for self development, with such things as correspondence education and e-learning, which are easy to use with few restrictions on time and place, and external interactive education.