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Group Donates Total of 6 Million Yen to Higashikawa Town, Hokkaido

  • CSR
2025.04.02

The corporate mission of D-POPS GROUP is to multiply the number of growth companies (so-called “unicorn companies”) that will revolutionize society. By doing so, we aim to increase the number of growth companies that can contribute to society and help to build a better world.

Our group utilized the corporate version of Japan’s so-called “Furusato Nozei”* to donate a total of 6 million yen to the town of Higashikawa in Hokkaido. This donation will be used to support projects that raise social awareness of child abuse and aim to prevent it.
*This is a system that allows part of one’s residential tax to be directed toward a specific local government, in order to reduce one’s tax burden by a certain amount.

Click here to participate in the community development of Higashikawa Town through their shareholder system. (Page only in Japanese.)

Here is a list of all our group companies that donated to this cause:

versetal Inc.

https://versetal.com/index.html

D-POPS Corp.

https://d-pops.co.jp/

PLUST

https://www.plust.jp/

idealump Co., Ltd

https://idealump.com/en

Advancer.inc

https://advancer.co.jp/

graphD Corp.

https://graphd.co.jp/

TFN

https://tfnmobile.com/
 
We are conducting donations like this in the hopes that young people and children who will lead Japan and the world can escape their difficult situations as quickly as possible.
D-POPS GROUP will continue to aim for business expansion to ensure our social contributions will continue in the future.

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