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The JAL Group will fulfill its responsibilities as a corporate citizen as outlined in the Code of Conduct. Through active participation in social activities by each employee, JAL aims to deepen its relationship of trust with society.

Social Conduct Guidelines

•	As a corporate citizen, the group will support activities to aid children and young people, who are the key to all our futures. We will also help those with financial or physical difficulties and support activities that show respect for nature.
•	The JAL Group will use its position as an air-transport business with a network uniting Japan and the world to encourage both human interaction and cultural activities.
•	The group will actively plan and participate in various social activities, including those at the local level.

	Cooperation with external groups		Offering other kinds of help
	Offering assistance with transport		Employee volunteer work

International Exchange among Young People

• Children’s Haiku Camp

Winners of the World Children’s Haiku Contest, organized by the JAL Foundation, were invited to the World Children’s Haiku Camp 2006 in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, for haiku appreciation and international exchange.

• JAL Scholarship Program
Students from a number of other countries in Asia and Oceania were invited to take part in summer schools in Tokyo, Kanazawa and other locations in a joint project with the JAL Foundation.

Art and Cultural Activities

• Assistance with Social and Cultural Events
The JAL Group provided support for the 2006 World Heritage Hagi Symposium and a museum conference.

• JAL Otobutai Concerts
In 2006, the JAL Group supported the Otobutai concerts, as it has done since this series of performances by Japanese and overseas artists at historic sites in Kyoto and Nara started in 1989.

• Pacific Music Festival
In partnership with the city of Sapporo, the JAL Group in 2006 supported this program, which started in 1990, to assist the next generation of young musicians from around the world.

• Supporting New National Theatre and Mori Art Museum

• Assistance with Art Transport
The JAL Group assisted in the transport of foreign artworks for exhibitions across Japan, and Japanese artworks for exhibitions in various locations overseas.

Environment-Conservation Activities

• Field Trip to Hokkaido for Employees

• JAL Miles for Eco

• Preventing Desertification in Inner Mongolia, JAL Sky Eco China

• Flight-Crew Project to Help Reduce CO2 Emissions

• Tropospheric Observation

• Support for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Earthwatch Institute

• Support for the 17th International Conference on Bear Research and Management

• Volunteer Tree Planting in Hokkaido

• JAL Global Environmental Seminar

Education and Welfare of Young People

• Emergency Humanitarian Aid
Following the May 2006 Java earthquake, the JAL Group provided free transport for 32 NGO staff and 19 tons of emergency aid from the Japanese Red Cross Society, the Korean Red Cross and regional organizations. We also raised ¥1,520,000 through donations from employees and a charity concert for staff.

• Miles for Special Olympics
We support the Japan Committee of the Special Olympics through volunteer work, dispatching staff to the committee office and by encouraging JAL Mileage Bank (JMB) members to make donations using their air miles.

• Miles for Children’s Vaccines
We support the Japan Committee Vaccines for the World’s Children by encouraging JMB members to make donations using their miles.

• Support for UNICEF

The JAL Group supports UNICEF through assistance to the Japan branch of the organization. Since November 2006, we have extended onboard fund-raising from three of our U.S. and European routes to all our international flights. Other support includes painting the UNICEF symbol on our aircraft, helping with charity events, selling UNICEF cards onboard, placing collection boxes in our Narita and Kansai airport lounges and transporting coins collected for the UNICEF Change for Good campaign.

• JAL Group Young Green Squad
Junior staff from the JAL Group are engaged in a number of volunteer activities. In fiscal 2006, 50 employees from 42 group companies divided into four groups and participated in volunteer work at kindergartens, nursery schools, free schools and farms. A group of 100 employees, mostly past participants in the program, also took part in a project to clean the banks of the Ara River in Tokyo.

• Essay Contest
The group supports the children’s essay contest run by the Japan Association of the United Nations World Food Programme.

• Support for NPOs and NGOs
Transport support for the Japan NGO Network for Education, Japan Association for Refugees, the Japan branch of Amnesty International and various other NPO and NGO projects

• Sponsoring sports classes taught by members of JAL Rabbits (women’s basketball) and JAL Wings (rugby)

• Wheelchairs with Wings
Waiving surplus cabin-baggage charges for wheelchairs repaired by Japanese high school students and sent abroad

• Charity Event Assistance
The JAL Group supports charity activities, such as Care Wave — a musical charity event — social development events and a concert organized by the Japan International Volunteer Center.

• Pink Ribbon Campaign

Since 2004, JAL has supported the Pink Ribbon campaign, which serves to highlight the importance of early detection and treatment of breast cancer. On two of our domestic routes, we initiated Pink Scarf Flights, on which Pink Ribbon badges and cards are distributed to passengers. A total of 678 Pink Ribbon brooches were also sold to staff last year and part of the proceeds donated to Breast Cancer Network Japan.

• Support for Local Educational Projects
JAL staff from our head office in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward gave talks at local middle schools about their experiences working at JAL. We also assisted with job-training programs at our Kobe Office and airport facilities.

• Extracurricular Lessons
We advertised throughout Japan for elementary schoolchildren and their parents to take part in study trips to our maintenance facilities. We also made efforts to increase interaction with local areas through conducting classes around the nation, explaining our work to schoolchildren.

• International Cooperation Volunteer Activities

Volunteers among our staff made picture books to send to children in Laos and Cambodia. They also made cloth toys for children in Cambodia.

• Fair-Trade Learning Activities for Employees

• Santa Claus on the Airplane (a volunteer project by Narita staff)

• Love-Wing (a volunteer project by Kansai Airport regional staff)

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