Support that Helps Foster the Next Generation

Xiaoshan Yamaha Musical Instrument Co., Ltd.

  Xiaoshan Yamaha Musical Instrument Co., Ltd. has provided donations and engaged in related activities to help provide an education to impoverished children unable to go to school since 2006.

  Yamaha has provided donations through the Gesanghua Schooling Support Association of Qinghai for the purpose of providing economic aid. Funds are used to help educate young children in China's western region including Qinghai Province. We have received numerous letters of appreciation and comments from recipients of this aid. Students about to graduate have provided us with wonderful reports and news of their advance to higher education.

Yamaha Music Craft Corporation

 As a part of the company's ongoing efforts to contribute to the local community, Yamaha Music Craft Corporation has accepted junior high school students from Hamamatsu City allowing them to gain on-the-job experience at its business premises since 2003. Since 2002, the company has also organized factory tours for local elementary school students. Both initiatives have continued on a yearly basis since inception. In fiscal 2010, three schools participated in on-the-job experience while two schools participated in factory tours for a total of approximately 130 students.

  In addition to experiencing the joys and hardships of work life, students were instructed in workplace manner. This initiative aims to provide students with a sense of what it is like to have a career as well as a better outlook on life. Yamaha has received letters of appreciation from students with wide-ranging views and thoughts. Students have commented that they now realize the art of craftsmanship involves much more than just making things. Other students were greatly impressed by the care and detailed effort put into making instruments that allow performers to excel. Students are therefore afforded significant benefits that can only be provided by a factory that manufactures musical instruments.

  Factory tours help provide elementary students with a deeper understanding of the true nature and essence of a factory. As a local factory that manufactures instruments that students particularly like including guitars and marimbas, these tours help foster an attachment and affinity with the region.