SUSCOM
Sustainability Communication Hub Co., Ltd. (SUSCOM) is a Japanese media entity that delivers a wide range of sustainability-related information, from small, unassuming local stories in Japan to revolutionary business models with the capacity to change the world.
Since 2003, the genesis of environmental and CSR communication in Japan, SUSCOM has attracted experienced planners, directors, editors and designers who have established strong CSR communication parameters for leading companies. Not only publishing CSR reports, we also strive to realize high-level communications by utilizing the best cast of talent across an ever-expanding domestic and international network. We also developed our specialist SUSCOM media platform to convey various sustainability-related information to companies and individual citizens.
Dogo Onsen: How Japan’s Oldest Hot Spring is Reinventing Itself Through the Cutting Edge
Dogo Onsen is said to be the oldest hot spring in Japan. The history of this hot spring spans over 3,000 years, from ancient times to the present day. ... View More
Improving Construction Sites to Support Disaster Response and Community-Building
The construction industry continues to carry a reputation for harsh and hazardous working conditions. For younger generations and women in particular, it often feels inaccessible as a career path. Combined with labor shortages and new overtime regula... View More
Plasticity: A Brand that Hopes to No Longer Exist in Ten Years
Eighty million. That’s the number of plastic umbrellas used in Japan each year, with most of them used only once. Because plastic umbrellas combine multiple materials, they are difficult to disassemble and rarely recycled. Instead, they are typical... View More
How Living Things and Rice Led Us to Sake Brewing
For Fukunari Wakabayashi, sake brewing isn’t just a craft — it’s a living expression of harmony between people, nature, and place. Inspired by his grandparents’ rice paddies and the creatures that thrived there, Wakabayashi founded Yamane-Shu... View More
Redesigning Traditional Japanese Sweets For An Aging Society
When it comes to living well in this aging modern world, one major challenge is dysphagia, a condition where swallowing becomes difficult due to illness or old age. In Japan, where glutinous rice pounded into a sticky dough called mochi is traditiona... View More
Wakame: From Aquatic Pest to Linchpin of a Regenerative Food System
How Uzushio Shokuhin is working to turn one of the world’s most invasive species into a nutritional powerhouse for people, animals and oceans alike. ... View More
aiESG Visualizes Corporate Impacts at the Product and Service Level
aiESG’s analysis service incorporates the company’s own AI into a database co-developed by Kyushu University and Harvard to perform comprehensive ESG assessments of each individual product and service throughout a supply chain. ... View More
Japan’s ‘Coffee Hunter’ Shares Vision of Industry’s Sustainable Future
José Yoshiaki Kawashima, founder of coffee brand Mi Cafeto, is on a mission is to create a market and increase value for producers who are committed to making quality coffee while protecting the environment and human rights. ... View More
Uniqlo Expands Campaign to Use Power of Clothing to Bring ‘Peace for All’
The brand has partnered with renowned photographers from Magnum Photos to bring the stories and impacts of its Peace for All campaign to exhibitions in 10 cities. ... View More
Kindergarten Lunch Program Improves Child Nutrition in Vietnam
The success of Morinaga Milk’s Smiles & Health for Children kindergarten lunch project in Vietnam provides a blueprint for the global company to expand its social impact to numerous other communities. ... View More
A Unique Spin on Traditional Japanese Business Principles to Help Achieve the SDGs
Taneya Group’s founding principles are grounded in a concept called "sanpo yoshi" (“three-way satisfaction”), considered one of the roots of Japanese sustainability. ... View More
Japanese Dairy Farming Being Optimized by Digital Tech, Sustainable Practices
Farmnote’s system uses AI to learn and analyze individual cows’ health, allowing for remote cattle management — helping dairy farmers to enhance productivity and utilize their time more effectively. ... View More
Unique Public-Private Partnership Ensures Climate-Proof Future for Sake Production
Companies and industries are being forced to innovate to ensure success in a climate-changed future. One win-win partnership epitomizes the ingenuity of a legendary, highly particular sake brewery and a city government seeking to leverage local chara... View More
Shimokawa Town: A Collaborative Approach to Building an SDGs Future City
Shimokawa Town in Hokkaido is a designated SDGs Future City and the winner of the first Prime Minister’s Japan SDGs Award in 2017. Four years on, Shimokawa is still working earnestly to achieve the goals and is keen to share its progress, new initi... View More
SDGs White Paper: A Compass That Indicates Where Japan Is Today and Should Head in the Future
The SDGs White Paper 2019 aims to help promote fundamental understanding of the SDGs — featuring sections that use concrete case studies and data to clearly explain what is happening in the world, what the issues are, and what Japan is doing on eac... View More
Japanese Companies, Schools Join Forces on Career Education to Promote Sustainable Society
Companies are keen to get involved in school education to improve awareness and understanding of their products and industry, but also to nurture human resources and potential future employees. ... View More
xSDG Laboratory and Consortium: Sharing Visions and Accelerating Action on SDGs
The xSDG Laboratory seeks to amass SDGs-related best practice by using the SDGs to design solutions to a range of complex social problems. The “x” represents the crossing of various social activities with SDGs to create cutting-edge, superior exa... View More
A 100-Year Journey: Achieving Sustainability for All in the Coffee Industry
Global demand for coffee continues to rise, but climate change is expected to shrink suitable land for Arabica coffee beans by 50 percent by 2050. Japan's Key Coffee is working to protect the future of coffee, starting in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. ... View More
Finding Local Solutions to Local Challenges: Contributing to Communities the Otsuka Group Way
Pinpoint specific local issues. Promote sustainable local development. Pave the way for caring and productive corporate growth. That’s how Japan’s Otsuka group of companies seeks to shape its role as an essential company for society. ... View More
Marine Transport Vessel Collects Oceanographic Data from Japanese Coast to Advance Research
Today, we are witnessing unusual weather patterns and natural disasters all over the world. Traditional state and corporate barriers must be transcended if we are to combat the universal issue of climate change. ... View More
