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About Public Affairs Committee

• Group Message

• Business Philosophy

List of Member Companies

About Sumitomo

• Sumitomo in History
  • After War, Rebirth
  • Into the Industrial Century
  • Far-reaching plans
  • Modernization
  • A Time of Adversity
  • Rice and the Economy
  • Milestones
  • Japan's Kitchen
  • Japanese Copper Across the Sea
  • A Business Spirit Still Alive and Well After 400 Years

• Sumitomo's starting point

• Business Philosophy

• Related Facilities
  • Sen-oku Hakuko-kan
  • Besshi Copper Mine Memorial Museum
  • Hirose History Museum

• Sumitomo Quotes with Enduring Value
  • “Put your heart into everything you do.”
  • “Disobey your master’s order and benefit him. That is loyalty.”
  • “I will follow the path of justice and equity, undertaking projects beneficial to the nation from a long-term perspective.”
  • “Continuously cultivate your personal qualities.”
  • “A man of noble character esteems wealth and is scrupulous in seeking the ethical way to acquire it.”
  • “A forestation plan in the spirit of repaying for what had been reaped from the land.”
  • “Benefit self and benefit others, private and public interests are one and the same.”
  • “Planning imbued with a farsighted perspective”
  • “Looking back at the receding traces of five years: snow-covered mountains”
  • “Revering these mountains as gods—awed and humbled to have mined here for generations”
  • “The planted larch trees are burnished gold. What a wondrous forest they have become.”
  • “An enterprise like no other. Desiring to extract inexhaustible red copper for the nation’s economy. A railway, cleaving the heavens in twain, is the essential link.”
  • “Though accustomed to toiling deep underground, all pray to the god Oyamatsumi as they enter the tunnel.”
  • “A mighty reddish outcrop breaks the surface, breaching the snowfield”
  • “As the Besshi Copper Mines approach the end of their working life, I want to promote industrial development as a new source of prosperity.”
  • “What joy! Gold has acquired added luster. Reflected in spring waters, this will be the source of delight for millennia.”
  • “Don’t view business as a battlefield where conflicting interests fight for profit. Devote yourself to the achievement of ethical economic development. Contribute to the sound development of the nation and to the betterment of society through Sumitomo’s business.”
  • “The House of Sumitomo’s policy emphasizes the need for the most careful consideration when contemplating embarking on a new business. Nevertheless, I urge you to be energetic in proposing improvements to existing businesses and in identifying sound and beneficial new businesses.”

Current Major Activities

• SUMITOMO QUARTERLY

• Sumitomo Group’s Initiatives
  • Education

• From the Sumitomo/Society Interface
  • Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.
  • Sumitomo Riko
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Card
  • Sumitomo Realty & Development

• Illustrator Ryoko Takagi visits Sumitomo Group
  • Sumitomo Metal Mining, Niihama Nickel Refinery
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Construction, Washimibashi Bridge
  • Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Suzuka Plant
  • Tohoku Sumiden Precision

• Spring of Integrity

• "A Brief Message from the Heart" Letter Contest award ceremoney

• Intercollegiate Negotiation Competition

• Speech Contest of the Schools for the Blind
  • Each speech

• Sumitomo Cultural Forum