October 26, 2022

PRESS RELEASE

2022‐No.08

Japan Mécénat Awards 2022: Six Activities Awarded,
TOPPAN Inc. Receives Grand Award for
Its Kanosei Art Project
The Association for Corporate Support of the Arts (5-3-2 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Motoki Ozaki)
decided to award the Japan Mécénat Awards 2022 to six activities (one Grand Mécénat Award and five Awards
for Excellence). The “Mécénat Awards” are to publicly honor particularly outstanding corporate activities fromthe perspective of the creation of society through arts and culture.
TOPPAN Inc., the recipient of the Grand Award, utilizes its unique technology to create added value for theworks of artists with disabilities and has established a scheme to combine support for the independence ofpeople with disabilities and business activities, leading to human resource development for employees. These
points were recognized for the award. The Awards for Excellence were given to the following activities: aninitiative that contributes to the revitalization of a factory district through the storage and exhibition of large-scaleartworks; an activity that challenges the possibilities of new art experiences by fusing the digital and the real; aninitiative that offers children around the world an opportunity to think about social issues through art; a gallerythat disseminates the value of architectural culture by planning exhibitions with foresight and originality; and amusical activity in which local communities work together in the hope of a sound future for children.
Japan Mécénat Awards 2022 Winning Activities( )parentheses.
I Grand Award*Activity locations shown in ( ) below.

TOPPAN Inc.

(Tokyo & others)

Kanosei Art Project
Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka
Charitable Contribution through MASK［MEGA ART STORAGE(Osaka)KITAKAGAYA］
Suntory Holdings Limited／Suntory Foundation for the Arts
"Digital Suntory Hall" and "All Day Kidsʼ Museum! Online"andother DX promotion of Suntory Hall and Suntory Museum of Art

Award for

CMIC HOLDINGS Co., Ltd.

Excellence

Nakamura Keith Haring Collection International Children's
Drawing Contest(Tokyo,throughout Japan,and Overseas,and others)(Yamanashi)

Takenaka Corporation／GalleryA4
Exploring the essential beauty that will be inherited to the next
generation with the concept of 'Architecture・Blessing'(Tokyo)

Nippon Kabaya Ohayo Holdings Inc.
OKAYAMA KODOMO MIRAI MUSICAL 「HAROLD！」(Okayama)

Outline of the Japan Mécénat Awards 2022
❖ Activities Entitled for Selection
Out of the activities of mécénat (creation of an enriched society
by promoting arts and culture) implemented by corporations,corporate foundations, and private-sector federations locatedin Japan, from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, 166 activities(103 corporations/organizations) were certified as “This isMECENAT 2021” and entitled for the selection of the awards.

Grand Award: TOPPAN Inc. “Kanosei Art Project”❖ Selection Points
1. Contribution to the improvement of arts and culture
Grand Award /Award forExcellence

2. Contribution to the dissemination of arts and culture
3. Contribution to society and communities
4. Utilization of the corporation’s unique know-how and resources
5. Continuation and development of activities
6. Originality in activities❖ 2022 Selection Comittee
Natsuko Hagiwara *Chairperson
President, The National Women’s Education Center
Chairperson, Japan NPO Center

Oko AraiDirector, Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall
Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts

Osamu Sakura, Ph.DProfessor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Team Leader, Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN

Shinya Nakajima
Exective Creative Director, Tohokushinsha Film CorporationFilm Director

Keiko Nakamachi
Professor Emeritus, Jissen Women’s University
Specially Appointed Director, Akita Museum of Modern Art

Shu Yamaguchi
Independent ResearcherAuthor

Motoki Ozaki
President, The Association for Corporate Support of the Arts

About the Japan Mécénat Awards
The Japan Mécénat Grand Awards were launched in 1991 (renamed to the Japan Mécénat Awards in 2004)
with the aim of enhancing corporate mécénat activities and raising public interest. Since then, the screening has
been conducted for the activities of mécénat (creation of an enriched society by promoting arts and culture)
implemented all over Japan in the previous year, and by 2021, 235 excellent activities have received awards.

⚫ “The Japan Mécénat Awards” Website (Japanese text only)：https://www.mecenat.or.jp/ja/mecenat_awards/mecenat_awards⚫ “This is MECENAT” Webiste (Japanese text only)： https://mecenat-mark.org/

Association for Corporate Support of the ArtsA private public-service corporation in which corporations and organizations involved in culture participate andcollaborate to achieve a richly creative society through the promotion of arts and culture. To help realize asociety full of creativity, vitality, and respect toward diversity, the Association engages in a variety of services
related to the promotion of culture, such as Investigations and Research, Certification and Commendation,Culture Fund, exchanges, and information dissemination, with a focus on the advancement of corporate
mécénat.
Chairman: Tatsuyoshi Takashima (Adviser of Dentsu Inc); President: Motoki Ozaki (former Chairman of theBoard of Kao Corporation)
Members: 141 corporations and organizations (as of October 1, 2022).

Press Inquiries:
Sato (Ms.) / Public Relations
Saito (Ms.), Takanashi (Mr.) / Japan Mécénat Award
The Association for Corporate Support of the Arts
TEL: +81-(0)3-5439-4520 / FAX: +81-(0)3-5439-4521 / E-mail: press@mecenat.or.jp