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At Murata, we consider the relationship of our business activities to biological diversity, and we have long been engaged in activities designed to protect and restore natural ecosystems.

In January 2011, we added action guidelines concerning the protection of biological diversity to our Environmental Policy. In addition to giving impetus to our activities in this area, this will increase awareness among our employees of the importance of protecting biological diversity.

Initiatives for the Protection of Biological Diversity

Promoting Greenification

Not content to merely observe the stipulations of the Factory Location Act and take the landscapes around our facilities into consideration, at Murata we are actively engaged in greenification activities that seek to both form and protect regional ecological networks.

• When planting trees, we study the birds that live in the region, and actively attempt to plant trees that bear the fruit, nuts, etc. preferred by those birds.
• In addition to composting the weeds that spring up as a result of our greenification activities in order to improve the soil, we use chips created from pruned branches for various purposes, including creating habitats for insects such as rhinoceros beetles.
• In addition to prohibiting the use of herbicides that would be incompatible with our goal of protecting ecosystems, we attempt as much as possible to restrict our use of chemical substances such as insecticides and disinfectants.
• We are providing opportunities for our staff and for local children to learn about ecology by creating biotopes in order to protect the living creatures that make specific regions their habitat and conducting activities to restore and revitalize ecosystems.
• In order to protect endangered flora, we work to protect and restore plants such as spoon-leaved sundew, white egret orchids, and Japanese buttercup.
• In and around the grounds of our facilities, we eliminate and control the spread of nonnative species which threaten local ecosystems, such as Canada goldenrod, lance-leaved coreopsis, and the common dandelion.

Wildlife in the region

Toyama Murata biotope

Nagaoka Plant biotope

Promoting the “Murata Forest” Program

Protecting woodlands in developed areas has been indicated as an important measure for the protection of biological diversity. Murata is working to protect such woodlands at a number of locations in Japan through the “Murata Forest” program.

For example, with the support of local residents, we are protecting the environment by organizing Murata employees and volunteers from among their family members to thin-out vegetation and clear undergrowth once a month in a wooded area located in the Kouzaki district of Kameoka City in Kyoto Prefecture.

We are already conducting similar activities, or are presently planning them, at Murata facilities throughout the country.

Another purpose of these activities is to provide our employees and their families with opportunities to refresh their bodies and souls.

"Murata Forest" activities

Carrying out business activities that allow co-prosperity with the ecosystem

Anamizu Electronic Industries has kept track of environmental impact on the ecosystem through its business activities to promote conservation for biodiversity. In addition to conservation activities to protect wisteria and azalea that are designated as natural heritage by the prefecture, we participate in community-based mountain conservation. We also publish an in-house journal periodically to instill awareness about biodiversity in our employees.

Anamizu Electronics Industries, Ltd.
Administration Sec.
Photo, from left to right
Hisao Miyaji
Hiromi Ikeshita
Tsunematsu Hama
Kenji Matsumoto