2019.06.13
Member Co-ops
On May 16 2019, Okayama Co-op presented one million JPY as activity support grant for 2019 fiscal year to the Honduras Maternal and Child Health and Reproductive Health Project being run by AMDA Multisectoral & Integrated Development Services ( AMDA-MINDS*).
2019.06.11
Member Co-ops
The Shizuoka Promotion Committee for the Hibakusha Appeal held the 1st anniversary general meeting and commemorative lecture on May 11, 2019, and 92 people participated.
2019.06.04
Member Co-ops
The Co-op Tohoku Sunnet Business Federation has announced the distribution of smartphone payment app "CooPay" that can be used at the stores of its member co-ops from July 2019. This is the first smartphone payment service by a supermarket chain in Japan.
2019.05.30
Member Co-ops
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.
2019.05.28
International
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.
2019.05.23
JCCU
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.
2019.05.16
Member Co-ops
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.
2019.05.14
Member Co-ops
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.
2019.05.07
International
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.
2019.05.01
Member Co-ops
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
2019.04.25
JCCU
From March 27 to 29, 2019 JCCU and Okinawa Consumers' Co-operative Union co-organized the 36th Okinawa old battlefield / American Military base tour for co-op members nationwide. 220 members from 33 consumer co-ops nationwide participated.
2019.04.23
JCCU
JCCU has been organizing Pink Ribbon Campaign each year. One yen from the sale of target CO・OP Brand Product is accumulated and contributed to J.POSH which educates and promotes the early detection of breast cancer.
2019.04.18
Member Co-ops
On March 16, 2019, the 13th Fukuoka Prefecture Regional Disaster Prevention Symposium was held in Fukuoka City.
2019.04.11
International
On January 17, 2019 JA Nagano CHUOKAI (Nagano Prefectural Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives), the Nagano Prefecture Citizens' Council to Protect Food, Green and Water, the Network to Nurture Food, Agriculture and The Environment in which Nagano Consumers' Co-operative Union is a member,
2019.04.09
Member Co-ops
On March 4, 2019, Ibaraki Co-op Chubu Block Members' Committee held the "Disaster Risk Reduction Learning Session," with the participation of 18 people, including co-op members and staff of Ibaraki Co-op.
2019.03.27
JCCU
JCCU has been conducting "Survey of radioactive substance in home meals" for 8 years since FY2011 and on March 6, 2019 the results for the fiscal 2018 was released.
2019.03.19
Member Co-ops
Hachioji City in Tokyo holds "Hachioji Ginkgo Festival" every year with an executive committee consisting of volunteer citizens in cooperation with companies, organizations and citizens' groups.
2019.03.15
JCCU
On February 15, 2019, Co-op received the "Tamahiyo Childrearing Goods Award 2019" in the food and meal delivery division through questionnaire survey for people who have subscribed to the magazines "First Tamago-club," and "Tamago-club," "Hiyoko-club" issued by Benesse Corporation.
2019.03.08
Member Co-ops
Japanese consumer co-ops nationwide have been organizing training exercise for the improvement of driving skills and traffic safety awareness for their home delivery staff.
2019.02.28
International
JCCU and its member Co-ops in cooperation with the Japan Association for the World Food Program (JAWFP) launched the "CO•OP × Red Cup Campaign" from October 1 to November 20, 2018 to raise funds to support the "School Meal Program" in the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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2019.06.18
JCCU
2019.06.13
Member Co-ops
2019.06.06
JCCU
2019.06.04
Member Co-ops
Co-op Tohoku Sunnet Business Federation launches smartphone payment app "CooPay"
2019.05.30
Member Co-ops
Shouhisha Shinyo Seikyo launches gambling addiction countermeasure service
2019.05.23
JCCU