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The automobile industry was featured in social studies textbooks for fifth graders as one of Japan's leading industries, and the number of requests for information to the Customer Consultation Center increased rapidly. Every year since 1993, the company has opened an Elementary school student car consultation room during summer and fall, when students learn about the automobile industry. Various questions about the automobile industry are accepted by telephone, letter and e-mail.
The establishment of a special consultation room for elementary school students is unique to our company in the automobile industry, and many students and teachers use it every year.

The first issue was published in 1993. We have distributed pamphlets for children free of charge that cover "car manufacturing" and "the relationship between car manufacturing and society".
Photographs and illustrations provide an easy-to-understand explanation of the process from development to sales, the factory, the mechanics of electric vehicles and environmental and safety initiatives.
All kanji characters are affixed in furigana so that they can be applied for fifth grade social studies "Automobile Industry" and that children of all ages can read them.

The content of the pamphlet "Why? Why? Car Manufacturing Research Team" for children is explained in more detail with videos and animations. In the "Virtual Factory Tour," videos of the actual our company factory is shown. In addition, the website features six main contents, such as free research themes, Q & A collections related to cars, and traffic safety quizzes. It can be used for fifth grade social studies "Automotive Industry."

Based on the concept of "having fun learning through real experiences," we have dispatched employees to elementary schools every year since 2005 to conduct classes in the SDGs section, where students learn about the relationship between cars and environmental issues; the Design section, where students learn about the fun of creating products and the work involved in automobiles and the Monozukuri section, where students learn about the manufacturing of cars at factories and the ingenuity of workers. Since fiscal 2020, we have also given remote lessons in which some programs are conducted online.

Each facility accepts junior and senior high school students for career education in order to help children who will lead the next generation think about the future and broaden their horizons and provides them with opportunities to deepen their understanding of working through dialogue with our employees.

We co-sponsor “Kidzania Tokyo” and “Kidzania Koshien” and exhibit at pavilions in Kidzania, including the Driver's License Center and rental cars.
We support children to think and act on their own to gain an understanding of social systems and to gain the ability to live including cooperation, positivity and communication skills.

We support local environmental improvement and development to solve poverty that meets the needs of children in developing countries so that they can grow up vigorously through NPO World Vision Japan.

We have compiled links to tools and programs provided by MMC that help children learn.