Member Initiatives
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Creating a green space that will be “Tomorrow’s Basic”
DNP built an extended plant in the Shinjuku-Ichigaya district in Tokyo shortly after the company’s foundation and has grown together with the community over the past 130 years while supporting Japan’s publishing culture.
In line with its redevelopment plan to update factory and administrative functions and enhance business operations, DNP is now engaged in creating on its grounds an expansive green space called Ichigaya-no-Mori in an effort to address social needs as well as issues such as climate change and deterioration of the urban environment.
Following extensive studies of the area’s former environment, the company decided to recreate a biodiversity-rich, deciduous broad-leaved forest mixed with evergreens.
Using only indigenous plants from planters with soil from Tokyo and the surrounding area, zoning and vegetation stratification is incorporated, and through flora that develop flowers and fruit, the woodland is anticipated to serve as a habitat for various wildlife.
Some 15,000 square meters have already been greened as DNP surges forward to its goal of forming a green network with major sites of greenery in Tokyo.
DNP innovates and creates value that people will come to take for granted in the future. Through Ichigaya-no-Mori, DNP seeks to demonstrate its brand statement of “Today’s innovation is tomorrow’s basic.”
