Press Release
Record-breaking seventh annual FIT For Charity Run held in Tokyo~ Largest ever turnout for both individuals and firms ~~ Financial industry raises JPY68 million for local charities~(Photo by Masahiro Murakoshi）

TOKYO, 6 November 2011 – The seventh annual Financial Industry in Tokyo (FIT) For Charity Run washeld today at Tokyo’s National Kasumigaoka Stadium. This year, FIT For Charity once again set records
for participation, as 7,447 individuals from 111 financial services and related foreign and domesticorganisations came together to raise approximately JPY68 million for local causes.

Funds are raised through sponsorship, participation fees, donations from participating companies andindividuals, as well as t-shirt and raffle sales.

Donations raised from this year’s event will be equally divided among the following ten local non-profit
organisations in the Kanto and Tohoku regions:
Tohoku Region
 Caring for Young Refugees
 NPO ETIC NPO Fair Trade Tohoku
 NPO Network Orange
 NPO One Family Sendai

Kanto Region
 NPO Friendship Camp Junior Achievement Japan Kuraki Mother and Child Welfare Association
 Nonprofit Organization Saisei Gakusya Support 21, Social Welfare Foundation1

Hiroyuki Kobayashi, co-chairperson of FIT For Charity Run 2011 Organising Committee, said: “FIT For
Charity Run has been positively contributing to the Tokyo community since 2005, raising funds for a broad
range of local causes. This year, not only do we support local Kanto NPOs but we also support NPOs
conducting restoring and rebuilding efforts in the Tohoku region. Again this year FIT has set new records
for number of companies and participants. This is a true testament to the ability of the financial industry tobond together to make a significant impact to our local community organisations.”

Co-chairperson Weronika Anasz added: “While the role of non-profit organisations in solving local issues
is increasing, particularly following the Great East Japan Earthquake, FIT For Charity Run’s fund raisingability can be more meaningful. The continued support from volunteers from participating companies andthe generous support of in-kind donors enable FIT For Charity Run to donate a high percentage of funds
raised directly to the charities.”

The FIT For Charity Run 2011 Organising Committee
Atsumi & Sakai, AXA Life Insurance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Group, Barrier Free
Company, BGC Shoken Kaisha, BlackRock, Bloomberg L.P., BNY Mellon, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu, Deutsche Bank Group, Eat Creative, Goldman Sachs, Hays Japan, HSBC Group, J.P.
Morgan, KPMG (Co-chairperson), Kreab Gavin Anderson, Macquarie Group, Man Investments, MGPA,
Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB Securities, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, Mizuho FinancialGroup, Mizuho Securities (Co-chairperson), Music Securities, Nikko Asset Management,
PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan, Select Asset Management, The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ,SHONAN Academy of Medical Welfare, Thomson Reuters, UBS＃＃＃＃＃

About the Financial Industry in Tokyo (FIT) For Charity
The Financial Industry in Tokyo (FIT) established the FIT For Charity Run to provide people in the financial
and related fields in Tokyo with an opportunity as an industry to support local charities. FIT For Charity
chooses to make a difference to its community by raising money for local non-profit community
organisations serving important but not necessarily well recognised or understood needs, and which might
possess only limited fund-raising capabilities. For more information, please visit www.fitforcharity.org
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FIT For Charity Run 2011 Details:
Schedule: Sunday, 6 November 2011
Course: National Kasumigaoka Stadium & the outer garden of Meiji Shrine (Meiji-jingu Gaien)
Participation donation: JPY 5,000 per person (free for children under 16 years old).
Fastest runners:

Time

Male 10km run:Mark Callon (Ichigo Asset Management)

34:07

Female 10km run:Fumi Nakamoto (AllianceBernstein)

40:51

Male 5km run:

Tomohiro Mizukoshi (Goldman Sachs)

17:14

Female 5km run:

Reina Yanagiba (Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB Securities)

21:54

400m relay team winner:

BNP Paribas Securities

46.17

Best costume:Jun Kudo & Mario Brothers (Schroder Investment Management)

Biggest fund raiser:

UBS“Koen” Supporters:
The Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei Inc.

Organiser:
FIT For Charity Run 2011 Organising Committee

Special Supporters:
Ｔhe Japan Cycling Association and the National Kasumigaoka Stadium

Sponsors (donation JPY500,000 and above)
AllianceBernstein, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, AXA Life Insurance Co., Ltd., Bankof America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Group, BlackRock Japan Co., Ltd., Bloomberg L.P., BNP ParibasGroup, BNY Mellon, Citi, Crédit Agricole Group, Credit Suisse, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Deutsche BankGroup, Eat Creative, Ernst & Young Japan, FactSet Pacific Inc., Goldman Sachs, Hartford Life Insurance
3K.K., HSBC Group, ICAP Totan Securities Co., Ltd., Ichigo Asset Management, Ltd., IPC Systems, Inc.,ISID FAIRNESS, Ltd., J.P. Morgan, Japan Bond Trading Co., Ltd., Japan Securities Depository Center,Incorporated, KPMG AZSA LLC, KPMG FAS Co., Ltd., KPMG Tax Corporation, Liquidnet Japan Inc.,Macquarie Group, Man Investments Securities Japan, Ltd., MGPA, Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB
Securities Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, Mizuho Securities, Morgan Stanley, Nikko
Asset Management Co., Ltd., PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan, Rakuten Bank, Ltd., Robert Walters Japan
K.K., Royal Bank of Scotland, Schroder Investment Management (Japan) Ltd., Societe Generale Group,Standard & Poor's, Swiss Re, Thomson Reuters, UBS

Supporters (donation JPY350,000 and above)
ABeam Consulting Ltd., BGC Shoken Kaisha Ltd., Futures in Finance, GE Capital Japan, ING Bank N.V.,
Tokyo BranchDonors:
ASAHI FOOD & HEALTHCARE, LTD, JTB MOTIVATIONS, INC., Mitsubishi Corporation, OrcaInternational, Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd., SAPPORO BEVERAGE CO., LTD., SAPPORO FINE FOODSCO., LTD, UNIFRUTTI JAPAN CORPORATION, YOKUMOKU, Abilitas Hospitality Co., Ltd., academyhills,ANA InterContinental Ishigaki Resort, ANA Intercontinental Manza Beach Resort, ANA InterContinental
Tokyo, Blue Note Tokyo, Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, Cotton Club, ECC Junior, Grand Hyatt Tokyo,Hotel New Otani, Hyatt Regency Kyoto, Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo, Mori Building Co., Ltd., Motion BlueYokohama, Palace Hotel, Park Hyatt Tokyo, ROPPONGI HILLS CLUB, Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo,Skillhouse Staffing Solutions K.K., The Economist, The Imperial Hotelｌ, The Peninsula Tokyo, The
Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, The Strings by InterContinental Tokyo, Toys"R"Us Japan, Ltd., AI In and Ma-do(Criteria Inc.), Diplomatt, Inc., Masahiro Murakoshi (Photographer) , Akira Fukunaga (Photographer), Ryuji
Kuwahara (Photographer), Nippon Express Co., Ltd., SHONAN Academy of Medical Welfare, The WallStreet Journal Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Fujimori High School, United4Ten Non-profit Community Organisations supported by FIT For Charity Run 2011:
Kanto Region
NPO Friendship CampWith the philosophy of achieving an independent common society, Friendship Camp provide camps withthe purpose of developing youths and volunteers. For example, there is a "Friendship Camp," which gives
children with and without disabilities an opportunity to spend time together. There is also a "SummerCamp," which lets children experience nature. There is also a "Summer Camp," which lets children
experience nature.
Junior Achievement Japan
Junior Achievement work in partnership with the business community, educators and volunteers to inspireyoung people to dream big and reach their potential. Junior Achievement’s hands-on, experientialprograms teach the key concepts of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to youngpeople.
Kuraki Mother and Child Welfare AssociationKuraki Mother and Child Welfare Association raise infants who are not able to be taken care of in their own
families in a Child Welfare Act accredited facility. Kuraki also assist in support and consultation for children
who have left their facility.
Nonprofit Organization Saisei Gakusya
Saisei Gakusya is a free school for truant-prone or developmentally challenged children and teenagers.
They cultivate self-affirmation and communication through experiential learning, folk house school camps,
drama and local community bazaars.
Support 21, Social Welfare Foundation
Support 21 offers a helping hand to foreign nationals such as conventional refugees, returnees from China
or Japanese descendants from South America, by providing counseling, scholarships and learning
programs.
Tohoku Region
Caring for Young Refugees
Founded in 1980 with a concrete mission to achieve a peaceful society without refugees, Caring for Young
Refugees has been supporting the creation of a safe environment for young children and the5independence of women in Cambodia.
For supporting Great East Japan Earthquake survivors, Caring for Young Refugees is re-establishingeducational environment for young children and providing livelihood opportunities for community people
suffering from the disaster by using its experience working in Cambodia.
NPO ETICETIC promote social innovation by developing entrepreneurial leaders for the next generation. Now, they
are working on "Support our Disaster Recovery Leaders" Project which provides skilled volunteers as
assistant leaders/managers to disaster recovery leaders. The project will support the leaders and theirprojects for disaster recovery.
NPO Fair Trade TohokuFair Trade Tohoku’s mission is to eliminate social exclusion in local and global communities through fairtrade products, activities and employment support of socially vulnerable people. Since the disaster Fair
Trade Tohoku have been providing support to those less well known areas and individuals which have notbeen supported by larger relief organisations.
NPO Network Orang
Network Orange support children and adults with disabilities to participate in their local town developments.
Months after the March 11 disaster, the local people are in need of psychological care in order to face theharsh reality of daily lives. They would like to utilise the FIT support to create a community event space forthe residents.
NPO One Family Sendai
Established in 2002, One Family Sendai have been providing emergency and long-term shelters forhomeless people and other people in need. One Family Sendai also provides various support and job skill
training to help them to become self-sustaining. Since the March 11 disaster, they have been assisting
thousands of evacuees by providing meals in Sendai. Volunteer supported outreaching activities for theelderly and the poor with mobility problems, and free phone hotline by lawyers have also been provided.
With the FIT support, they would like to establish a safety network for those affected who have a high riskof becoming homeless after the end of temporary housing contracts.
For further information, please contact:
Communications@fitforcharity.org
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