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The United Nations has officially designated 2025 as the "International Year of Cooperatives" (IYC2025), under the theme "Cooperatives Build a Better World"

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Since November 2010, JCCU has supported UNICEF's Child-Friendly Schools initiative in Angola through the CO・OP Core-non-Smile School Project. In this project, for each purchase of a specific CO・OP toilet paper, 1 yen is donated to UNICEF. In its 14th phase, the project raised over 17 million Japanese yen. On December 20, 2024, a Donation Presentation Ceremony took place at UNICEF House in Shinagawa with representatives from seven supporting companies.

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On December 10, 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony was held in Oslo, Norway. FUTAMURA Chikako, Executive Director of JCCU, attended the ceremony as a member of the delegation representing the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.

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We are pleased to present the JCCU Profile for 2024-2025, which gives you an up-to-date overview of the Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union and its member societies.

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From November 25 to 30, 2024, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) World Cooperative Conference, General Assembly, and related meetings were held in New Delhi, India and JCCU participated.

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On July 21, 2024, the Kure Peace Gathering: "Passing Down the Sorrow of 1945 - Never to be Forgotten" was held at the Hiro Community Development Center in Kure City. Organized by the Co-op Kure Peace Committee, composed of Co-op members from Co-op Hiroshima, the event attracted 76 participants, including members of a local choral group.

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JCCU President Toshio TSUCHIYA's New Year Message

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Since 1991, JCCU has been organizing annual training programs, except during the COVID-19 pandemic, for managers of consumer co-ops and cooperatives in Asia and the Pacific to learn about the businesses and activities of Japanese Co-ops.

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We wish you a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!

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Toyama Co-op held environmental activities with its members to cultivate awareness of environmental protection. Participants entered and learned about a Japanese landscape at the boundary between human settlements and the natural environment, "Satoyama," with knowledgeable staff experts in nature.

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