April 25^th, 2023    Fukuyama Transporting Co., Ltd. (Head office: Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture; President: Shigehiro Komaru) and Komaru Koutsu Foundation (Chief Director: Shigehiro Komaru) held a traffic safety class for 725 students of Itoshima Municipal Maebarunishi Junior High School (Fukuoka Prefecture) on April 21 jointly with Fukuoka Prefectural Itoshima Police Station.

Since the school is adjacent to an arterial road with heavy traffic, they wanted to prevent traffic accidents on the way to and from school by raising traffic safety awareness. We conducted hands-on experience learning danger prediction using drive recorder footage and a bicycle simulator to foster a deeper understanding of necessary traffic rules and manners when riding bicycles. They commented on how this course helped them to raise awareness of traffic safety, saying, " By following bicycle traffic rules and manners, I would like to set a good example for the community.” To prevent and decrease the number of future traffic accidents among children, we will continue to promote traffic safety awareness in cooperation with police stations and local authorities.

Komaru Koutsu Foundation was established on September 9, 2013, to promote traffic safety awareness, hosting various traffic safety lectures in elementary schools across Japan and carrying out educational activities to prevent traffic accidents. Furthermore, the foundation supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing opportunities for students overseas studying Japanese to present the results of their studies and organizing Japanese composition speech contests to raise traffic safety awareness and promote cultural exchange with Japan.

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(Danger prediction by using a drive recorder)

(Riding experience by using a bicycle simulator)

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