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Japan Mécénat Awards 2023: Six Activities Awarded,
SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATION Receives Grand Award for
Its Dance Base Yokohama
The Association for Corporate Support of the Arts (5-3-2 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: MasumiNatsusaka) decided to award the Japan Mécénat Awards 2023 to six activities (one Grand MécénatAward and five Awards for Excellence). The “Mécénat Awards” are to publicly honor particularly
outstanding corporate activities from the perspective of the creation of society through arts and culture.
Sega Sammy Arts Foundation was awarded the Grand Award for providing artists with a place to create
their works, planning experimental programs, creating interaction among a diverse range of people as adance house that is open to society, and taking on the challenge of developing and reforming dance
culture. Awards for Excellence were also awarded to the following recipients: an initiative that provides
opportunities to learn and experience cutting-edge technology; an initiative that connects young artists
with the elderly through art; an initiative that aims to preserve and disseminate local traditional techniques
and nurture successors; a project that addresses social issues and communicates regional charm incooperation with local governments and universities; and a wall art project that depicts wishes for theyear 2045 based on the theme of “Reconstruction and the Future”.
Japan Mécénat Awards 2023 Winning Activities*Activity locations shown in ( )below. ( )parentheses.SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATIONI Grand Award
Dance Base Yokohama(Kanagawa)

SHIMIZU CORPORATION
Shimizu Open Academy

Charm Care Corporation
ART GALLERY HOME

Award forExcellence(Tokyo, overseas)(Tokyo)NIKKISO CO., LTD.
Support for the preservation and spread of Ishikawa Prefecture's
traditional metal inlaying technique known as Kaga Zogan
through the Soukeikai Foundation.

(Ishikawa)

HASEKO Corporation
Historical and landscape conservation activities,
and regional revitalization efforts in Asuka Village, Nara
Prefecture(Nara)

Hiroshima Mazda Co., Ltd.
WALL ART PROJECT ＂2045 NINE HOPES＂(Hiroshima)October 26, 2023

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Outline of the Japan Mécénat Awards 2023
❖ Activities Entitled for Selection
Out of the activities of mécénat (creation of an enriched societyby promoting arts and culture) implemented by corporations,corporate foundations, and private-sector federations locatedin Japan, from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023, 163 activities(111 corporations/organizations) were certified as “This isMECENAT 2022” and entitled for the selection of the awards.

Grand Award: SEGA SAMMY ARTS FOUNDATION“Dance Base Yokohamat”❖ Selection Points
1. Contribution to the improvement of arts and culture
Grand Award /Award for
Excellence

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❖ 2023 Selection Comittee
Natsuko Hagiwara *Chairperson
President, The National Women’s Education CenterChairperson, Japan NPO Center
Oko AraiDirector, Yokohama Minato Mirai HallVisiting Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts
Osamu Sakura, Ph.D
Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Team Leader, Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN
Shinya Nakajima
Film Director, Exective Creative Director, Musashino Art University visiting professor
Keiko Nakamachi
Professor Emeritus, Jissen Women’s University
Specially Appointed Director, Akita Museum of Modern Art
Shu YamaguchiIndependent ResearcherAuthor
Masumi Natsusaka
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About the Japan Mécénat Awards
The Japan Mécénat Grand Awards were launched in 1991 (renamed to the Japan Mécénat Awards in2004) with the aim of enhancing corporate mécénat activities and raising public interest. Since then, thescreening 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 2022, 241 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
and collaborate to achieve a richly creative society through the promotion of arts and culture. To help
realize a society full of creativity, vitality, and respect toward diversity, the Association engages in a varietyof services related to the promotion of culture, such as Investigations and Research, Certification andCommendation, Culture Fund, exchanges, and information dissemination, with a focus on theadvancement of corporate mécénat.
Chairman: Masaya Futamiya (Special Advisor of Sompo Holdings Inc.);
President: Masumi Natsusaka (Adviser of Kao Corporation)
Members: 138 corporations and organizations (as of October 1, 2023).

Press Inquiries:
Sato (Ms.) / Public Relations
Saito (Ms.), Fujimoto (Ms.) / 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