We also provide products for the Food Box for Children program in Japan operated by Save the Children Japan. The Food Box for Children 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 school holidays. We receive many requests for stationery, so we provide writing instruments and other stationery twice each year.
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.

We support the “Writing is Important” Project, an in-class program offered by the Japan Culture Education Propulsion Mechanism to explain the importance and significance of writing to elementary school students.
Japan’s emphasis on ICT in education—for example, providing a tablet to every elementary school student—means that children are now spending more time typing and less time writing by hand. Advances in digital technology are wonderful, bringing convenience and efficiency to everyone. However, we believe that there is a warmth in words that can only be expressed through handwriting and the heartfelt feeling people put into it, and that, because we have supported the act of writing around the world for over a century by producing writing instruments, one of our missions is to seize the present moment to convey the value of writing to children, who will shape the future.
In the first year, more than 4,000 children honed their skills in the program and enjoyed learning about the meaning and importance of writing.

• “Writing is Important” Project, Japan Culture Education Propulsion Mechanism

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.

• JSEC (Japan Science & Engineering Challenge)

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.
In a certain year, 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.

We are an official club partner of Shonan Bellmare, the local professional soccer club in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, where one of our plants is located. We help the club give children a chance to acquire life skills such as leadership and teamwork through the club’s youth development and education projects, and also make efforts to contribute to and revitalize local communities.
We also support the club’s visits to PE classes at local elementary schools and its Football Academy (a total of seven teams, from special classes for strengthening elementary school students through U-18), and are a special sponsor of the COPA BELLMARE U-11 PILOT INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT, an international U-11 soccer tournament organized by Shonan Bellmare for elementary school students. We provide various educational and cultural experience opportunities, for example inviting children from participating teams from outside Japan to our Hiratsuka Plant to try their hand at assembling writing instruments.

PILOT Corporation sponsors “Kokoro no Gekijo,” a project organized by the BUTAIGEIJUTSU CENTER and SHIKI THEATRE COMPANY (Kanto Block and Aichi Prefecture).
“Kokoro no Gekijo” project aims to convey important life values such as “the importance of life,” “compassion for others,” and “the joy of trusting each other” to children through theatrical performances. The project invites children from all over Japan to the theater for free.
By supporting this initiative, PILOT Corporation aims to nurture “deep compassion” and “creativity” in children who will shape the future.

• “Kokoro no Gekijo,” project BUTAIGEIJUTSU CENTER
• “Kokoro no Gekijo,” project SHIKI THEATRE COMPANY

Pilot Pen Singapore has actively provided various types of educational support to students for many years.
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 will also continue to cultivate a community of young badminton players by sponsoring the Pilot Pen Championships at the Temasek Club, a badminton competition for students ages 8 to 14 in Singapore.
Recently, we were a corporate partner of “Race to Sustainability!,” an initiative to raise awareness of Singapore Green Plan 2030 among the younger generation. Through this program, students furthered their knowledge of Singapore’s renewable resources, the effects of climate change, and other aspects of sustainability and engaged in discussions on how to achieve a sustainable society.

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

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