ENThe award ceremony for the 28th "A Brief Message from the Heart" Letter Contest, scheduled for April 25, 2021, was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since 1995 we have supported this contest, begun by the Maruoka-cho Cultural Foundation in Fukui Prefecture. We support this event mainly for the following two reasons. First, the contest features the spirit common to our message: Passing important values from people to people. Second, Maruoka-cho is where Masatomo Sumitomo, our founder, was born.
The award ceremony for the 28th "A Brief Message from the Heart" Letter Contest, scheduled for April 25, 2021, was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An event to announce winners of the 28th "A Brief Message from the Heart" Letter Contest was held online on January 29, 2021. In this annual contest sponsored by Sumitomo Group Public Affairs Committee, contestants compete by writing memorable short letters on a given theme.
The 2020 competition’s theme was “Smile,” and of 52,805 entries from Japan and abroad, 160 letters were chosen as winners (5 Grand Prizes, 10 Excellence Awards, 20 Sumitomo Awards, etc.). The award-winning letters expressing the entire spectrum of feelings associated with the theme “Smile” were read out.
The cumulative entries to "A Brief Message from the Heart" Letter Contest," including those to its predecessor held 10 times from 1993 onward, exceeded one million (1,005,226 letters) on April 19, 2009.