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The other day, on June 4, in the auditorium on the 2nd basement floor of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s main building,an award ceremony was held for the Vibrant HABATAKU Small and Medium Enterprises 300, and Morikawa Gauge Works was selected in the “productivity enhancement” category!

President Masahide Morikawa attended the ceremony as a representative of the company.

It was quite a privilege, as only two companies from Kagawa (the other being Hirono Farm, also located in Miki), and 10 from all four prefectures of Shikoku, were honored in this way.

We believe this award to have been a mark of the high regard in which the public hold our efforts to automate, unman, and streamline repetitive and mundane tasks, while giving people the more sophisticated and respectable work of creating added value. But what we are attempting to accomplish is not easy, and we still cannot afford to take pride by taking its success for granted, as there is still a long road ahead.

Of course, representatives of the “Vibrant HABATAKU Small and Medium Enterprises” were gathered at the venue.
The enthusiasm and eagerness for improvement of the people in the room was so intense you could feel it!

And as can be expected of a government office, the A/C was off to save energy, so it was literally hot!

A booklet giving case studies of initiatives by the companies was also handed out,

and it seems like “Habataku” here does not mean “taking flight” (its normal meaning in Japanese) but rather “making efforts with the goal of taking flight.”

It really felt like the national government was encouraging these small and medium enterprises to take on their challenges.

And so, while our company still has a long road ahead of it, the fact that we are striving to overcome it is itself something that we can be proud of.

Taking this award as a source of inspiration, we will continue to face the challenges that lie before us with a simple sincerity, while maintaining a positive attitude and rejecting pessimism.

We hope that we can rely on your continued patronage and guidance!