With Society

To put our corporate philosophy into practice, the Yamaha Group engages in a variety of businesses around the world, such as the manufacturing and marketing of musical instruments and audio/visual products, as well as the operation of music learning centers. Our activities are wide-ranging, and include voluntary initiatives such as social contribution activities. Here, we introduce our scholarship program, which comprises one part of our European subsidiaries’ program for supporting students in the field of music.
The Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe (YMFE) is an endowment founded in 1989 by investments from Yamaha Corporation and the Yamaha Music Foundation, and has the mission of awarding scholarship money to talented, young music students in Europe.
Yamaha’s six European marketing subsidiaries select scholarship recipients in their respective regions from among full-time music students of all nationalities age 25 or below*1 studying voice or instrumental music at music universities in 29 countries.*2 Since scholarships began being awarded in 1990, a total of approximately 700 talented students have received scholarships.

Yamaha Corporation cooperated with Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. to hold the third “Yamaha Forest” tree-planting event.“Yamaha Forest” was launched in December 2005 as part of efforts to contribute to society by providing environmental preservation and education through tree-planting activities in Indonesia, where both companies have manufacturing and sales networks. Supported by OISCA,* the activity involves plans to plant approximately 150,000 to 200,000 trees on 120 hectares of land over a five-year period. While restoring land that has been destroyed by logging activities to its former glory and returning natural forests to their original state, the activity also aims to help prevent global warming. In Japan, the Enshunada coastal forest revitalization project executes to support for tree-planting and maintenance by volunteers.