In 2015, PILOT launched products with the Save the Children Japan logo and the original character on the body. Part of the proceeds were used to support Save the Children projects around the world.

We also provide products to the Children’s Food Support Box operated by Save the Children Japan. The Food Support Box provides food and other items to families facing financial difficulties with the goal of improving the circumstances of children during the long summer and winter vacations. We have been told that there are many requests for stationery, so we provide writing instruments.
We will continue to support Save the Children Japan.

1. * Save the Children is an international NGO, founded in England in 1919, active in about 120 countries. Save the Children helps to realize a child’s right to live, grow, be protected, and to participate.

Pilot Corporation of America donates a portion of the proceeds for pink ribbon-attached products to the National Breast Cancer Foundation as part of the Pink Ribbon Campaign, which emphasizes the importance of early detection, treatment, and diagnosis of breast cancer. In addition, Pilot Pen Deutschland also continues to donate to breast cancer awareness and research groups.

The Japan Science & Engineering Challenge (JSEC) for high school and technical college students (organized by Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi) is intended to create and nurture future scientists. This is a nationwide independent science and engineering research contest for high school and technical college students. Students who achieve excellent results in this contest go on to participate in the world competition.
In addition to presenting the PILOT Corporation Award for excellent research, we support learning opportunities for future scientists through this sponsorship.

We have been supporting the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters’, a Japanese Professional Baseball team, campaign, started in 2014, to promote reading throughout Hokkaido with the phrase “Turn your glove into a book.” We hope to foster the habit of reading from an early age and improve academic skills amid the declining number of children using libraries in Hokkaido and the number of books being lent out.
This campaign focuses on elementary school students, during their summer vacation, then who have finished reading the target number of books. They were presented with mechanical pencils made by PILOT featuring the Fighters logo through the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

PILOT’s sales subsidiary in Germany, Pilot Pen (Deutschland) GmbH, has implemented PILOT 4 School as a framework for educational communication for teachers and students to deal creatively with the topics of cultural diversity and environmental conservation. This subsidiary provides to teachers free teaching materials on these topics. In addition, an annual school competition is organized in which participating classes from primary and lower secondary schools compete with creative ideas.
PILOT 4 School started in 2016, so 2022 marked the sixth time. In 2022, 343 classes from Germany and Austria participated under the main theme of environmental conservation. This competition received a range of ideas, including ways to recycle plastic waste as well as climate protection puzzles. The winning classes each received a subsidy for the class fund and each participating student got a PILOT pen set. Pilot Pen (Deutschland) GmbH will continue this initiative to support teachers and the next generation.

PILOT has been sponsored as an official club partner of the Japanese Professional soccer club Shonan Bellmare to support the team’s youth development and education projects. These projects give children a chance to acquire life skills, such as leadership and teamwork, as we help to revitalize this region.
PILOT supports the Football Academy (U-18, U-15 Hiratsuka, U-15 Fujisawa, U-15 Odawara, U-18 girls, U-15 girls, plus special classes for strengthening elementary school students) and is a special sponsor company of the COPA BELLMARE PILOT INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT, an international U-11 soccer tournament organized by Shonan Bellmare for elementary school students. During the tournament, children experience Japanese culture through activities such as assembling writing instruments at our Hiratsuka Plant, adjacent to their home stadium, and playing Japanese drums. We give children opportunities to interact without language barriers.

Pilot Pen Singapore has sponsored student badminton tournaments since the 1990s.
In Singapore, sports are encouraged as part of education programs, and badminton is one of the most popular sports.
The PILOT Pen Cup is a national competition for students where we promote opportunities for the healthy growth of students.

We also continue to sponsor the Pilot Pen Badminton Championships at the Temasek Club, a badminton competition for students from varied backgrounds in Singapore. Through this competition, we help to promote a multiethnic and multicultural society in Singapore.

Plant tours conducted by PILOT and Group company production plants help us communicate with local people and customers as well as deepen their understanding of the Company.
In addition, we cooperate with local schools to give students workplace experience at our plants. When children, who will be responsible for the future, see where writing instruments are made, they learn about our company and feel closer to us. At the same time, they get opportunities to think about their dreams for the future.

1. * Currently, plant tours are limited to schools in areas near our plants.

The PILOT and the Group companies support and participates in regional and local events, cleanup drives, and landscape conservation, among other activities near offices and plants. We thrive along with surrounding communities by valuing their development and improvement, as well as our connections with those communities.

Cleanup activities and inspections along the Sagami River, adjacent to the Hiratsuka Plant

One regional support program takes place in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, where one of our plants is located; we have been supporting Shonan Bellmare, the local professional soccer club as one of the sponsoring partners. In addition to supporting the team’s youth development project, we will continue to work on regional revitalization by, for example, providing Shonan Bellmare limited edition writing instruments.

• (E) Environmental Initiatives
• (S) Social Initiatives
• (G) Corporate Governance