International Contribution Activities

Learning one another's language is essential to deepening relations between China and Japan. Young people dedicated to building good relations between Japan and China in the future are also crucially important. DOCOMO supports a number of Japanese and Chinese speech contests held in China on an ongoing basis.
In fiscal 2010, DOCOMO's Beijing Branch co-sponsored the twentieth "Voices of Japan-China Friendship: Japanese/Chinese Speech Contest" held on March 26 and 27, 2011 at Tianjin Foreign Studies University in Tianjin, China and the sixth "Voices of Japan-China Friendship: All China Japanese Speech Grand Champion Contest," a nationwide contest. The Japanese/Chinese Speech Contest has a history dating back to 1989, and DOCOMO has been an annual co-sponsor since 2001. Some contest participants go on to do internships at Japanese companies. The contest began with a silent prayer offered by everyone participating for those who lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Twenty representatives selected from 460 universities in China with Japanese language programs competed in front of a crowd of over 380 people to be No. 1 in China. They all delivered wonderful, passionate speeches.
DOCOMO intends to continue actively participating in the event and help promote mutual understanding between Japan and China in the private sphere.