{"id":149159,"date":"2022-10-12T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=149159&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-10-12T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:23:43","slug":"daiichi-kotsu-founder-establishes-fund-at-the-age-of-100","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/daiichi-kotsu-founder-establishes-fund-at-the-age-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Daiichi Kotsu Founder Establishes Fund at the Age of 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 100-year-old founder of Daiichi Kotsu established a fund to support domestic mid-and-small-sized companies that contribute to the local economy. Hajime Kurotsuchi, who stepped down as the company\u2019s chairperson in June, invested \u00a5200 million to annually award one million yen to three companies and organizations. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurotsuchi-kikin.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kurotsuchi Hajime Foundation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXZQOJC304GT0Q2A930C2000000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkei<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rkb.jp\/news-rkb\/202209303269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RKB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149164\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_kurotsuchi-hajime-foundation_2022_cl.png?resize=1400%2C788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Daiichi Kotsu Founder Establishes Fund at the Age of 100\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_kurotsuchi-hajime-foundation_2022_cl.png?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_kurotsuchi-hajime-foundation_2022_cl.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_kurotsuchi-hajime-foundation_2022_cl.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_kurotsuchi-hajime-foundation_2022_cl.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English regularly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. Opt out at any time and privacy is protected. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the \u201cNow\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclaimer: These summaries are from publicly posted contents. Errors might occur during translation. Images are sourced independently for illustrative purposes and credited appropriately. Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback or ask for edits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 100-year-old founder of Daiichi Kotsu established a fund to support domestic mid-and-small-sized companies that contribute to the local economy. Hajime Kurotsuchi, who stepped down as the company\u2019s chairperson in June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":149167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-149159","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/149159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}