Taking advantage of the knowledge and expertise built up in our main businesses of economics and finance, we are actively engaged in business-academia collaboration, and we also support economic education programs in junior and senior high schools, in order to teach young people knowledge and wisdom about life through economics.

Fiscal 2008 course endowments and collaboration
	Name of University	Topic (title)
	Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS), Hitotsubashi University	Daiwa Securities Group Corporate Strategy Creation Course
	Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University	Corporate Social Responsibility and Social/Economic Revitalization
	Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University	Social Finance
	Open Education Center, Waseda University (general lectures)	Basic Course in Venture Entrepreneurship and Business Planning
	Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University	Securities System Theory (spring session), Securities Investment Methodology (fall session)
	Kyoto University (general education course)	Modern Business Administration B
	Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University	Entrepreneurship
	Meiji University (Surugadai Campus)	Coming up with Venture Business Ideas and Building a Business Plan
	Faculty of Law, Chuo University	International Venture Business and the Law
	College of Commerce, Nihon University	Creating a Venture Company
	Peking University (overseas)	High-Tech Venture Value Creation
Conferences, symposiums, internships and other programs
	Tokyo University	Daiwa Shoken Group Foreign Student Scholarship Fund
	Tokyo University	Support for an "Entrepreneur Training" Exchange (Nov. and Feb.) with Peking University
	Tokyo University	Support for the BESETOHA Forum (Nov. and Feb.)
	Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS), Hitotsubashi University	Business School-based Industry Research Symposium for Job Hunters
	Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS), Hitotsubashi University	8th Porter Prize (Daiwa has supported this prize for the eighth time since its creation in 2001)
	Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University	2008 Daiwa International Workshop on Financial Engineering
	Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University	Internship (Daiwa sponsors lectures for students)

:New event in fiscal 2008

(1) Finance Park (Experiential Life Planning Program)
Junior Achievement Japan was established in Shinagawa, Tokyo in June 2005 as a forum for practice in life planning for junior and senior high school students. Daiwa provides special support with funds to open facilities and set up shops, and it also provides personnel. In January 2007, Junior Achievement opened an office in Kyoto. As of March 31, 2008, a total of 12,931 students have taken part in action programs that teach students about how to think for themselves and make decisions.

(2) Student Company Program (Experiential Company Management Program)

This is hands-on company management program in which high school students set up a company in school and operate it through all phases, from raising capital to recruiting personnel and handling the accounting, manufacturing and sales. The Daiwa Securities Group has been collaborating with the Student Company Program (SCP) at Ritsumeikan Senior High School since 2003. By fiscal 2008, Daiwa had sent a total of 16 employees as outside directors to offer advice on the preparation of financial data and on company management. Thus far, 131 students have acquired basic qualifications for gaining a living in society by learning about company management, how the world works, the difficulties of decision making, the pressure of bottom line accountability and the importance of leadership and teamwork.

Student Company Program students selling their products

(3) Global Leadership Forum for Junior and Senior High School Teachers
This is a training program sponsored by Junior Achievement Japan for junior and senior high school teachers. It is a forum where, through lectures given by guests from a wide range of perspectives, and through panel discussions and case studies, people discuss the state of the global economy and think together about how education should develop in the 21st century. From 2003 to 2007, the Daiwa Securities Group sponsored the forum and has continuously cooperated in related events. Through fiscal 2008, a total of 2,200 teachers have participated in the forum.

(4) Japan Council for Economic Education (JCEE)
The JCEE was established in January 2009 with the goal of providing economic education programs for school teachers. The Daiwa Securities Group began to support the JCEE primarily by providing the basic funds for its founding. Under a partnership between Junior Achievement Japan and the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), Daiwa seeks to implement programs suitable for the schools of Japan. Already, 12 individuals directly related to the company have produced and edited textbooks.

Related website: Junior Achievement Japan

We implement the President’s Awards system to recognize various achievements by executives and employees. Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. created the Volunteer Awards in 2007 to acknowledge on a biannual basis the Group and the employees who continually take part in local volunteer activities.

Group executives and employees organized sign language classes, helped clean up after community events and participated in various recycling activities. One recycling activity involves collecting used and unused stamps and prepaid cards, partially used postcards and similar items to donate to NPOs. Donations raised in fiscal 2008 totaled 506,686 yen, a 24 percent decrease compared to fiscal 2007. The number of people voluntarily taking part in sign language classes and volunteer activities on weekends or after work increased from a cumulative total of 569 people in fiscal 2007 to 644 people, a 13% year-on-year increase.

Since 1973, the Daiwa Securities Health Foundation has been supporting outstanding research focusing on improving the health, medical care and welfare of middle-aged and older people, disbursing 30 million yen in grants of 1 million yen each year. Fiscal 2008 marked the 35th year of this program, with a cumulative total of 952 recipients receiving 937 million yen in total. Since September 2006, the foundation has been offering health seminars for the public given by grant recipients. As of the end of March 2009, health seminars had been given at 94 Daiwa Securities branches throughout Japan, with a total of nearly 4,000 people participating.

The Daiwa Securities Foundation was established in 1994, for the benefit of society, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Daiwa Securities Group. The Foundation provides yearly research grants in the fields of volunteerism and welfare. In fiscal 2008, the Foundation provided 209 grants worth a total of 45.37 million yen to particularly outstanding applicants, and a two-million yen grant for two research projects. A new “Disaster Volunteer Activities Grant” was also created in fiscal 2004 to support the expenses of volunteers involved in disaster recovery work. Under this new grant, the foundation provided 200 million yen in aid to the NGO, Japan Platform (JPF), in support of the victims of the Myanmar tropical cyclone that struck on May 2, 2008. The Foundation will continue activities that contribute to improving social welfare.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity that was established in 1988 with a generous benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. for the purpose of supporting closer links between Britain and Japan. Some of its primary activities include the following:

Daiwa Foundation Japan House, the London-based headquarters, acts as a center for Anglo-Japanese relations in Britain by offering a wide range of seminars, exhibitions and book launches as well as meeting rooms for Japan-related activities and facilities for visiting academics. The Foundation is represented in Japan by its Tokyo Office, which provides local assistance to Daiwa Scholars (foreign students), administers grant applications from Japan and collaborates with other institutions that promote Anglo-Japanese relations. Since its inception, it has accepted 122 students from the United Kingdom. In addition, the foundation has provided grants for a total of 2,362 projects, with grant-in-aid amounting to exceeding 2 billion yen (as of March 2009).

Daiwa Securities Group Tsunami Reconstruction Fund

The Daiwa SRI Assistance Program provides grants for Japanese NGOs that provide support in fields involving human life (the human security field).

Planned and managed cooperatively with the NPO, Civil Society Initiative Fund, this program subsidizes personnel and education costs with the goal of getting NPO staff to deal on a long-term basis with the day-to-day problems of human security.

The Daiwa CI Biodiversity Conservation Fund operates a program to carry out biodiversity conservation activities in the vicinity of World Natural Heritage sites in seven countries that have been selected from areas called biodiversity hotspots.* The World Heritage Local Ecological Entrepreneurship Program (WH-LEEP) was formed as a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), and the United Nations Foundation (UNF), which together launched Community Management of Protected Areas for Conservation (COMPACT). COMPACT is in charge of dispersing grants for operating businesses, while DCBCF is in charge of dispersing grants to cover such expenses as business needs surveys and skills training. Through a partnership with global environmental NGO Conservation International (CI), the Daiwa CI Biodiversity Conservation Fund operates based on the profits earned from the sale and management of the Daiwa Eco Fund.

Daiwa, in cooperation with the Global Environmental Forum, operates a project funded by profits from the Russell Global Environmental Technology Fund sales. The project involves the compilation and distribution of handbooks containing basic technologies from among those environmental protection technologies possessed by Japan that can be fully developed and operated using the materials and human resources of developing countries. For some time, we have been focusing on home drainage problem countermeasures, an area urgently needing resolution in developing countries. Although we have selected relevant technologies from available Japanese technologies as countermeasures, in Thailand, we have conducted local surveys and gathered information concerning the current state of water contamination and home drainage problem countermeasures and investigated the applicability of technologies that could be transferred.

Support for Disaster-Affected Areas
The Daiwa Securities Group provided emergency support of 2 million yen via Japan Platform to the victims of the 2008 tropical cyclone, Nargis, in Myanmar. In Japan, we donated 6 million yen to the Central Community Chest of Japan to help the areas affected by the Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. also provided emergency support through the Japanese Red Cross after the Sichuan Earthquake in May 2008. Furthermore, as reconstruction assistance, we extended aid for recovery in Gansu Province, which was as severely affected as Sichuan but which, on the basis of information obtained locally, we learned had received less aid. We donated 1.52 million yuan (approx. 24 million yen) to the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund*1 to build two permanent elementary school facilities. In May 2009, exactly one year after the earthquake, we received the China Charity Award from the All China Women’s Federation, a senior body to the above-mentioned fund. As of July 2009, the schools were still under construction and scheduled for completion by autumn of this year.