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550 People Attend 'MOL Family Day,' Featuring Workplace Tours and Wheelchair Rugby Experience
August 18, 2025
TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced that from August 6-8, it held "MOL Family Day" (Note 1) as part of the "BLUE ACTION for ALL Campaign" (Note 2), with about 550 MOL Group employees and their family members and loved ones participating over the three days. Participants gained a deeper understanding of the MOL 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, MOL invited players and staff from the wheelchair rugby team "AXE" (Note 4), for which MOL 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 MOL Group in the future.
The MOL 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, MOL 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, MOL held a parent-child workplace tour event called "MOL Challenge Day."
August 19, 2019, press release: MOL Hosts 'MOL 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 MOL Group. MOL created this event as an initiative on contributing to "next-generation human capital development," one of the key aspects of MOL social contribution activities. For details on the "BLUE ACTION for ALL Campaign" for FY2024, please refer to the November 12, 2024, MOL Information: MOL 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, MOL 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 MOL 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, MOL 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 MOL 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: MOL 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 (mol.co.jp)
"BLUE ACTION MOL" is a general term for the Sustainable Action by MOL 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 MOL Group's social contribution activities as "BLUE ACTION for ALL", as the group's social contribution activities to promote activities based on priority areas.
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