On April 11, 2019, the Shouhisha Shinyo Seikyo (translated as "consumer credit co-op") announced that it took over the gambling addiction countermeasure service from the Non-Profit Organization Iwate Consumer Support Center and restarted it.
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The SDG Global Festival of Action 2019 was held in Bonn, Germany from May 2 to 4, 2019, and ITO Jiro, Operating Officer/Director, Public Relations Division of JCCU participated as a speaker.
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JCCU summarizes March 2019 business turnover of 66 community-based co-ops nationwide operating stores and home delivery service. The total business turnover in March was 205.9 billion JPY which is a decrease of 2.3% compared with the value recorded in the same month last year.
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On April 1, 2019, JCCU released a new series of CO・OP Brand Products "CO·OP SMILE DISH" that respond to food allergy.
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The Japan Productivity Center, Service Productivity & Innovation for Growth (SPRING), an independent organization, backed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), conducted a survey to collect data to estimate the Japanese Customer Satisfaction Index (JCSI*) for 2018 and announced the results on March 28, 2019.
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While an increasing number of consumer co-ops nationwide have started operating their own electricity retail business that uses renewable energy, three co-ops, Osaka Izumi Co-operative Society, Co-op Shiga and Kyoto Co-op, have started the electricity rate plan having zero carbon dioxide emission factor.
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JCCU and consumer co-ops nationwide have joined the Hibakusha Appeal, a signature campaign calling for an international treaty to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. The Hibakusha Appeal has been addressed from April 2016, and the collected signatures are delivered to the UN General Assembly every fall. This effort is expected to continue until 2020.
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The 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake, which occurred on September 6, 2018, recorded a magnitude of 6.7 and a maximum seismic intensity of 7, killed 42 people, injured 775 people, totally destroyed 1,617 houses, partially destroyed 2,891 houses, and
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