Employees Hold Class on Toyosu and IHI at Elementary School Near Head Office
On June 11, IHI employees held a class for 153 third-year students at Toyosu Kita Elementary School in Koto Ward, Tokyo, near the company’s Head Office. They illustrated the past and the future of Toyosu and the urban development initiatives.
Every year, the school invites IHI representatives to help students become experts on their neighborhood through the class. The employees outline Toyosu’s origins, the company’s shipbuilding operations there, and how IHI helped transform the area into a vibrant urban district after ending six decades of shipbuilding there in 2002.
Presentations of photos and other materials relating to Toyosu’s shipyard days fascinated the children, not least because the area looks so different today. Having researched Toyosu in preparing for the class, the students peppered lecturers in the Q&A session with numerous questions about the district’s history, shipbuilding there, and smart cities.
As in the previous year, the employees spoke about the future of Toyosu, which has transitioned from a shipyard into a mixed-use neighborhood for working, living, playing, and learning. It was an excellent opportunity for IHI to get the students contemplating the area’s potential through the Toyosu 4-2 block Development Plan, a tentative name for a redevelopment initiative to build offices, the extension of Subway Line 8, and the use of advanced technology.
IHI will continue to treasure its ties to neighborhoods in which it operates and remain a good corporate citizen.
Related press release (in Japanese only):
https://www.ihi.co.jp/all_news/2022/infrastructure_offshore/1197986_3475.html