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Saitama, Japan - March 20, 2018 / Calsonic Kansei Corporation (President & CEO: Hiroshi Moriya, Headquarters: Kita-ku, Saitama City) presents traffic safety backpack covers to first-graders enrolling in the 2018 school year at all municipal elementary schools in Saitama City, the location of the company's headquarters. Calsonic Kansei Corporation is a global supplier of automobile parts, and will be celebrating its 80th anniversary this year.

Saitama City provides new students at all municipal elementary schools with backpack covers every year in the hope of preventing car accidents. As a company in the automotive sector, Calsonic Kansei understands the role it plays in traffic safety. Through discussions with Saitama City officers, the company decided to donate traffic safety backpack covers every year going forward. Following the city's requests, Calsonic Kansei designed their traffic safety backpack covers to reflect car headlights, improving on previous versions by making children more visible on the streets. The donated covers will be distributed by Saitama City to 11,111 elementary school first-graders (estimate as of March 1st, 2018).

Calsonic Kansei has committed to continuing this initiative in order to contribute to developing safer and better communities.

Traffic safety backpack cover donation ceremony at Saitama Municipal Office

(March 22, 2018)
From left: Mayumi Hosoda, Head of Saitama City Board of Education; Hayato Shimizu, Mayor of Saitama City; representative of new elementary school students in Saitama City and her mother; Seiichi Kakizawa, Executive Vice President and CFO; Hiroshi Kanai, General Manager in charge of external affairs; Keiko Ishizaki, General Manager, CSR/Public Relations & IR Group, Calsonic Kansei Corporation