September 29, 2023
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Japan Sports Council (incorporated administrative agency)
Meiji Jingu (religious corporation)
ITOCHU Corporation
Reporting to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government regarding the “Conservation of Trees in theRedevelopment Project of the Jingu Gaien District (Request)”
Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2023 – Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd., a leading global real estate company headquartered inTokyo, together with the Japan Sports Council, Meiji Jingu, and ITOCHU Corporation (the “developers”) announced
today that we submitted a report dated September 29, 2023 to the Director General of the Bureau of Urban
Development and the Director General of the Bureau of Environment of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government inresponse to their request dated September 12, 2023, as follows. Going forward, we will provide the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government with a specific review regarding the preservation of trees as a result of the considerations requested by
the Environmental Impact Assessment Report before we start cutting down existing trees on the new rugby field site,
and we will report the proposed changes, including the proposed review, to the Environmental Impact Assessment
Council as a notification of change.
<Content of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Request>
We ask you to provide us with a specific review regarding the preservation of trees as a result of the considerations
requested by the Environmental Impact Assessment Report before you start cutting down existing trees on the newrugby field site.
As for other areas, we request that you further consider ways to preserve trees by working out better designs of facilities,
for instance, and present them to us.
<Content of the Developers’ Report>
In the Environmental Impact Assessment Report, released on January 20, 2023, we developers state that “with regardto the detailed configuration of the rugby field, we will request the project designer of the new rugby field to continue
considering such design that will pay heed to the conservation of existing trees. Therefore, we will consider, once
again, either preserving or transplanting existing trees through efforts, on both aspects of the design and execution ofworks, in the future, and request that efforts be made to conserve the natural environment. The developers and project
designer of the new rugby field have been working diligently to conserve the existing trees. We will provide the Tokyo
Metropolitan Government with a specific review regarding the preservation of trees as a result of the considerations
requested by the Environmental Impact Assessment Report before we start cutting down existing trees on the newrugby field site, and we will report the proposed changes, including the proposed review, to the Environmental Impact
Assessment Council as a notification of change.
We have also started designing the Picture Gallery Tennis Facility and the Picture Gallery Square, and as with the newrugby field, we are currently considering further ways to conserve existing trees. We will report back to you as soon
as they are finalized.
In addition, we will consider further ways to conserve existing trees in areas other than the Picture Gallery Square.