Daiwa House Group/Fujita Corporation
About the company
Daiwa House Group/Fujita Corporation
Daiwa House Group is one of Japan’s largest construction and land management companies. It has a subsidiary, Fujita, which operates in Burma.
Fujita, Tokyo Tatmono Co, Japan’s state investment firm JOIN, and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) are all involved in a consortium that pays rent to the Burmese military for land for a complex they built and financed. Known as the Y Complex, the development of shops, offices and a hotel is estimated to be paying the military around $2 million a year in rent. We understand that development of the project is currently suspended.
Contact:
Keiichi Yoshii
President, CEO
Daiwa House
3-3-5 Umeda, Kita-ku
Osaka 530-8241
Japan
Email: dh.ir.communications@daiwahouse.jp
Sources:
New evidence details Japanese payments to Myanmar army for Y Complex land lease, Justice for Myanmar, 24th March 2021
Japan state-funded hotel deal pays rent to Myanmar defence ministry, by Ju-min Park, John Geddie, Reuters, 24th March 2021
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-politics-japan-insight-idUSKBN2BG0FF
Statement regarding the business in Yangon, Myanmar, Fujita Corporation, 26th July 2021
Notified 20th January 2022 by post, emailed 4th February 2022.
Added to the Dirty List 1 March 2022
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”
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