Policy and Basic Approach

DHR and the Asset Manager provide safe, comfortable spaces at portfolio properties in an effort to enhance our competitiveness and improve our value. We also focus on business continuity plans (BCPs) and promote efforts with disaster resilience in mind in addition to promoting job creation to revitalize local communities.
We intend to continue working with the members of local communities to solve social issues with the ultimate aim of becoming a company worthy of their trust.

Support of Groups Working to Resolve Social Issues

The Daiwa House Group provides support to disaster-afflicted areas and groups working to resolve social issues. As one means to provide this support, a system has been built on the intranet where employees can easily make donations. We donate two types of funds depending on the social situation in question: “Endless Funds” that support groups working to solve social issues and “Heart Funds” that collect donations when disasters strike.
We are also heavily promoting these social contribution activities for our employees to get involved in with ease, to heighten their awareness of what is happening in the world, so that we can continue offering more support.

For details on our track record of donations, follow this link.

Support for Community Activities

Some retail properties owned by DHR host events as one form of support for community activities.
The Asset Manager supports community co-creation activities, partly through “Community Co-Creation Leave Program,” it has established to facilitate employees’ participation in activities that contribute to society, training for such activities and other such endeavors. Community co-creation activities supported by the Asset Manager include (1) preservation of the natural environment (litter pickup activities, recycling movements), (2) education and youth development (school visits, experiential learning programs, athletic coaching), (3) social welfare (elder/juvenile/disabled welfare), (4) international cooperation (overseas volunteering, foreign language interpreting, etc.), (5) volunteer training and required credentialing programs (classes in invalid care skills, sign language), (6) community outreach (neighborhood association events), and (7) disaster relief activities.
Specific activities include litter cleanup activities in response to calls from public park and facility management offices, participation in a book donation project, and volunteering for daily conversational practice for elderly Chinese returnees to learn Japanese conversation and interact with others in Japanese.

FOLEO Otsu Ichiriyama

“FOLEO Otsu Ichiriyama,” a mall-type retail property owned by DHR, supports refugee relief activities by continuously providing at no cost a space for UN refugee supporter applications and fundraising activities. In December 2020, “FOLEO Otsu Ichiriyama” received a letter of thanks from Japan for UNHCR.
Additionally, DHR set up a PCR testing site (testing tent) on a surface parking lot to provide free PCR tests without appointments for the residents of Shiga Prefecture, and cooperated with the free PCR testing program of Shiga Prefecture.

Castalia Meguro Kamurozaka

To make effective use of the space (about 65 m2) renovated from a meeting room to a party room, the Asset Manager consulted with Shinagawa Ward Council of Social Welfare and started providing the place to hold a children’s cafeteria in December 2022. The children’s cafeteria is a social welfare activity that provides a warm social gathering place for the children and residents of the community, as well as inexpensive and nutritious meals.
DHR and the Asset Manager support local activities by acting as a bridge between local residents, children, and organizers of the children’s cafeteria.

GRANODE Hiroshima

Hiroshima City collects entries from citizens for buildings, signs, activities, and more that make the city attractive and presents the most outstanding ones with the Urban Design Award Hiroshima.“Ekikitare,” a roughly 20-meter-wide and 100-meter-long space in the event square at “GRANODE Hiroshima,” a complex of office, retail and hotel facilities, received the 17th Urban Design Award Hiroshima in the Streetscapes category in 2020.

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(1) Located near Hiroshima Station, the land gateway to Hiroshima, the facility is a valuable space that can be utilized as an event square and creates new lively attractions, thereby contributing to the community.
(2) It is highly convenient with the necessary infrastructure for events even though normally it is a quiet space with comfortable breezes. It is built in such a way that event organizers sense the spirit of hospitality.

Local Job Creation

At some retail properties owned by DHR, local residents are given priority when applying for jobs.

Disaster Relief/Resilience

ACROSSMALL Shinkamagaya

The city of Kamagaya, Chiba, where “ACROSSMALL Shinkamagaya” is located, registers as “emergency communal wells” the wells that can provide well water to local residents when tap water supply is cut off in the event of a major earthquake or other disasters.In agreement with the intent of this program, DHR has registered the groundwater used at the property as an emergency communal well.

Countermeasures Against Large-scale Flooding

DPL Nagareyama I

DHR has entered into an “Agreement on Use as Temporary Evacuation Facility in Event of Disaster” with Nagareyama City, Chiba. This agreement allows the city to use DHR property DPL Nagareyama I as a temporary evacuation facility for nearby residents and others in the event of large-scale flooding or other disaster.
The purpose of this agreement is to ensure safety in the event that the Edogawa River, which runs through the city, overflows due to torrential rains, etc., by temporarily taking in nearby residents and employees of companies in the Nagareyama Industrial Park until an evacuation center can be opened.
The latest BCP measures have been implemented at DPL Nagareyama I, including a seismic isolation structure and back-up power supply. The on-site parking lot, vehicle passageways on each floor (total floor area of 3,000 ㎡ per floor), the cafeteria, and daycare center can serve as temporary shelters for up to 1,200 people in the event of a disaster, and it also keeps emergency supplies for 500 people.
In addition, there are ramps for accessing the vehicle passageways on each floor, and these can be used by evacuees arriving by car to get to the top floors while remaining in their cars. This allows quick evacuation, and with evacuees remaining in their cars, it can prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

DHR has promoted an enhancement of BCP response from a wide range of perspectives so that tenants, users, and people in the local community can use these safe and comfortable facilities.

D Project Machida, D Project Kuki III, DPL Misato, and DPL Nagareyama I

Seismic isolation structures* have been put in place not only to minimize load and facility damage in the event of a disaster but also to maintain building functions. These seismic isolation structures reduce vibrations to suppress shaking on upper floors and allow operations to restart in a short time.

* The seismic isolation structure reduces the transmission of seismic forces to the building by installing rubber laminations or other seismic isolators between the ground and the building.

GRANODE Hiroshima

In addition to the installation of a seismic structure*, GRANDOE Hiroshima has emergency power generators that can supply 72 hours of power as well as a generator space for tenants.

* The seismic isolation structure reduces shaking by installing dampers, etc., to absorb the shaking within the building.

Socially Conscious Initiatives

DHR promotes socially conscious facilities and services at its properties, such as barrier-free facilities.

Health and Well-being

Health and Welfare

DHR contributes to the health and well-being of tenants and users by installing fitness gyms and other facilities at its properties.

Safety and Well-being

At some DHR’s properties, we have installed and are maintaining plazas and pedestrian walkways to enhance public spaces and promote safety and well-being.

Facilities for Senior Citizens

DHR owns facilities and housing (assisted living facilities, paid nursing homes, etc.) for senior citizens, which must be developed and expanded to address the progression of the aging society in Japan and for which there will continue to be a certain level of demand. In so doing, we aim to realize a society in which people can live with peace of mind.

Childcare Facilities

In June 2017, the Japanese government established the Plan for Raising Children with Peace of Mind and announced a policy for addressing the long waiting lists for childcare.
DHR invites childcare facilities such as nursery schools and daycare centers to the properties as tenants to support child rearing.

Investment in Existing Urban Development Zones

DHR contributes to the renewal of urban areas and the revitalization of local communities and enhances landscapes and local residents’ convenience through investments in properties developed through redevelopment, land readjustment or other such projects.

Main Properties

Community-related Violations and Accidents

There were neither significant community-related violations nor accidents at DHR’s properties that would affect stakeholders. (Fiscal year ended March 2023)