News - Member Co-ops

On January 9 2019, 26 Vietnamese workers and their families took part in "The 1st Exchange Party for Vietnamese workers in U-Coop" at Katakura store of U-Coop.

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JCCU and its member Co-ops in cooperation with the Japan Committee for UNICEF had launched a UNICEF donation campaign under the theme "CO·OP Core Non Smile School Project" to raise funds to help improve the education environment for the school children in the Republic of Angola since 2010.

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In order to support the rebuilding of the lives of victims and the reconstruction activities of the local community, JCCU called on its member co-ops nationwide for emergency fundraising immediately after the disaster caused by the heavy rain in the West Japan area in July 2018.

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We are happy to announce that we have created a feature page “Consumer Co-ops' Social Activities”. JCCU publishes Consumer Co-ops' Social Activities Report every year to share the...

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Shimane Consumers' Co-operative Union participated in 2018 Shimane Prefecture Disaster Prevention Training held in Matsue City on November 25. This event is performed once a year under the co-sponsorship of the Shimane Prefecture government and a municipality of the venue, in which the residents, the Self-Defense Forces, fire fighters and private organizations join.

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'Good Life Award' sponsored by the Ministry of Environment is a project that started in 2013 to commend companies, schools, NPOs, local governments, local communities and individuals that have set precedent in activities for the environment and society.

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Fukushima Consumers' Co-operative Union has held the learning session called "Learning course to consider poverty of children" since 2016. On November 8, the 3rd session 'Current status and challenges of Children's Cafeteria' and the screening of the movie with the title 'You Are Always Welcome to Sato' were held...

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Since 1991, ICA-AP in collaboration with JCCU has been conducting yearly training program for managers of consumer co-ops in Asia to learn about Japanese consumer co-ops businesses and activities.

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On August 21, 2018, "Dementia Virtual Reality VR Experience Course" was held at Tokyo Consumers' Co-operative Union. 50 people including members of the Co-ops in Tokyo and Chiba participated in it.

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JCCU completed "Co-op Kyosai Plaza" building in May 2015 as the headquarters of Japan CO-OP Insurance Consumers' Co-operative Federation (JCIF). It recently received the 59th BCS (Building Contractors Society) Award.

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The exchange between Japanese Health and Welfare co-ops and the Korea Health & Welfare Social co-ops are actively held.

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JCCU participated in National Conference for Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction 2018 held in Tokyo Big Sight and Sona area (Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park) from October 13-14, 2018. The Conference was organized by the Executive Committee of National Conference for Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction 2018.

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Sado City (Niigata Prefecture) promotes biodiversity agriculture as well as protecting the internationally protected bird Toki (Japanese crested ibis). In agreement with this, in April 2010, seven institutions including Co-opdeli Consumers' Co-operative Union, Co-op Niigata and Sado City entered into a partnership agreement and launched "The Sado Toki support project".

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Since 2010, Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union (JCCU) in collaboration with International Labour Organization (ILO), the Co-operative Unit (ILO COOP), and ILO Office in Japan (ILO Tokyo), has been organizing study tours to Japan for African co-operative leaders with the aim to assist the human resource development of co-operatives in Africa.

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From October 3, 2018, U CO-OP's private brand product "Miyagi Prefecture's Oyster" which is a designated local product became an ASC certified product.

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On October 9 2018, Co-op Tohoku Sunnet Business Federation released the application "Easy Brain Training" for users of "Co-op Tablet". This application consists of several mini-games expected to activate users' brain, such as simple math puzzles.

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Almost three months have passed since the occurrence of heavy rain which brought enormous damage to the West Japan area, but there are still victims living in evacuation centers.

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From September 2018, the 3 member Co-ops of Co-opdeli Consumers' Co-operative Union namely, Ibaraki Co-op, Tochigi Co-op, and Co-op Gunma entered into electricity retailing business.

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The Low Carbon Hydrogen Technology Demonstration in Cooperation with Local Government is a public tender by the Ministry of the Environment to demonstrate a low carbon hydrogen supply chain as a mid- to long-term global warming countermeasure. Tomiya City in Miyagi Prefecture jointly with Miyagi Co-op, Hitachi, LTD., and Marubeni Corporation received the consignment in August 2017.

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At the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "Peace Action 2018 Hiroshima" and "Peace Action Nagasaki" was held, attended by 2,300 participants including staff and members of 70 consumer co-ops, and 1,110 participants including staff and members of 50 consumer co-ops respectively.

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