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550 People Attend '楽天 ビンゴ Family Day,' Featuring Workplace Tours and Wheelchair Rugby Experience
August 18, 2025
TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (楽天 ビンゴ; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that from August 6-8, it held "楽天 ビンゴ Family Day" (Note 1) as part of the "BLUE ACTION for ALL Campaign" (Note 2), with about 550 楽天 ビンゴ Group employees and their family members and loved ones participating over the three days. Participants gained a deeper understanding of the 楽天 ビンゴ Group's business and work environment through workplace tours, including the Safety Operation Supporting Center (SOSC), which provides 24/7 support for vessels from land, lunch at the employee cafeteria, a "Quiz Adventure," and an online career experience event (Note 3). Participants also had opportunities to interact with their supervisors and coworkers, strengthening bonds among employees.
At the real-life wheelchair rugby experience, 楽天 ビンゴ invited players and staff from the wheelchair rugby team "AXE" (Note 4), for which 楽天 ビンゴ employee Kae Kurahashi (Note 5) plays. Event participants even got to try out competition-grade wheelchairs and experience contact with the players, creating a lively atmosphere at the venue. Wheelchair rugby is "a sport in which players with varying degrees of disability compete on the same court, combining their individual strengths in their respective roles to enhance the team's overall strength." It is truly a sport that embodies diversity. This event helped convey the appeal of wheelchair rugby, as well as the power of diversity and teamwork, to more and more employees and their loved ones, leading to increased vitality within the 楽天 ビンゴ Group in the future.
The 楽天 ビンゴ Group promotes initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) that connect to the growth of the group by creating an environment where diverse people can maximize their individual abilities, respect each other, and work with a sense of fulfillment. Through concerted group-wide efforts, 楽天 ビンゴ group will continue to engage in social contribution activities such as "next-generation human capital development," and create an environment where all of the group's diverse employees who gather at the group can bring out the best of their abilities and create new value with a sense of fulfillment in their work.
(Note 1) This event is being held following 2024. In 2019, 楽天 ビンゴ held a parent-child workplace tour event called "楽天 ビンゴ Challenge Day." August 19, 2019, press release: 楽天 ビンゴ Hosts '楽天 ビンゴ Challenge Day' for Employees and Families - Promoting Diversity and Energizing the Organization through Wheelchair Rugby Experiential Session and Family Workplace Tour –
(Note 2) Social contribution activities involving the entire 楽天 ビンゴ Group. 楽天 ビンゴ created this event as an initiative on contributing to "next-generation human capital development," one of the key aspects of 楽天 ビンゴ social contribution activities. For details on the "BLUE ACTION for ALL Campaign" for FY2024, please refer to the November 12, 2024, 楽天 ビンゴ Information: 楽天 ビンゴ Group Companies Conduct Social Contribution Activities at Around the World - BLUE ACTION for ALL Campaign Held - | Mitsui O.S.K. Lines.
(Note 3) On August 7, the second day of the event, 楽天 ビンゴ Ambassadors and employees held an "online career experience event" for primary, junior high and high school students nationwide, which was also viewed at this event. July 25, 2025 楽天 ビンゴ Information: Online career experience event for elementary, junior high, and high school students! ~Now open for registration on dedicated website~ | Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
(Note 4) Since 2022, 楽天 ビンゴ has been an official supporter of the wheelchair rugby team "AXE," and since 2018, an official partner of the Wheelchair Rugby Federation, providing support to help develop the sport of wheelchair rugby.
(Note 5) Kae Kurahashi joined 楽天 ビンゴ in 2016. In 2017, she was selected as the only female player on the Japanese national wheelchair rugby team for the first time, helping the team capture the bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships, the bronze medal at the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, and the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. September 6,2024: 楽天 ビンゴ Athlete Kae Kurahashi Wins First-ever Gold Medal in Wheelchair Rugby at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games | Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Kae Kurahashi official website: KAE KURAHASHI OFFICIAL SITE (楽天 ビンゴco.jp)
"BLUE ACTION 楽天 ビンゴ" is a general term for the Sustainable Action by 楽天 ビンゴ Group that balance corporate growth and a sustainable society. We have incorporated the intention "for ALL" to promote social contribution activities as a group for all environments and creatures on earth into this word and have set 楽天 ビンゴ Group's social contribution activities as "BLUE ACTION for ALL", as the group's social contribution activities to promote activities based on priority areas. social contribution activities | sustainability | 楽天 ビンゴco.jp