News - JCCU

On May 1, 2025, JCCU launched the CO・OP Bigeye Tuna Cut-Off Pieces, marking the first CO・OP Brand product to use MSC-certified tuna.

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JCCU and "Children's Future Action" have awarded a total of ￥6.46 million in grants to 17 organizations for activities supporting children in poverty for the FY2024. The grant presentation ceremony was held online on March 6, 2025.

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JCCU has compiled the latest figures on the "Community Watch-over Agreement" being promoted between consumer co-ops nationwide and local governments. This initiative, which began in 2007, has steadily expanded across the country as the aging population increases.

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The "CO·OP Quality" brand, known for its commitment to deliciousness and developed by the JCCU, has marked its 10th anniversary. On March 1, 2025, the brand launched a new product.

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The JCCU announced that the childcare leave acquisition rate among male employees in 2024 reached 84.2%.

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JCCU launched the "CO•OP × Red Cup Campaign", which is an initiative of the Japan Association for the World Food Programme (JAWFP), from October 1 to November 10, 2024, and raised 4,015,975 yen in donations through the support of its member co-ops nationwide.

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On February 18, 2025, the International Co-operative Alliance Asia-Pacific (ICA-AP) Regional Board Meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan, as part of the IYC 2025 Kick-off Event, which took place on February 19, 2025.

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In order to revitalize the operations of member co-ops nationwide, JCCU has established the following three pillars as the business policy for its CO・OP Brand Product business in FY2025.

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JCCU has announced the business overview for its community-based consumer co-ops nationwide from April to November 2024 and JCCU from April to December 2024.

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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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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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The JCCU has released a summary report on the results of the "2024 Nationwide Co-op Members' Awareness Survey". This survey, conducted every three years since FY 1994, investigates the awareness and behaviors of co-op members nationwide.

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JCCU was awarded the Grand Prize at the "Eco Mark Award 2024" organized. This marks the first time at JEA that a single organization has been honored with the Grand Prize on two occasions at the Eco Mark Award.

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On October 21, 2024, JCCU launched the first Co-op Black Tiger Shrimp harvested from the certified ponds as an ASC-labeled product.

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