Tasaki
About the company
Tasaki
Tasaki is a Japanese jewellery company. It has a subsidiary in Burma, Myanmar Tasaki Co. Ltd. This subsidiary is sourcing pearls via the state-owned Myanmar Pearl Enterprise (MPE). Since the attempted military coup on 1st February 2021, MPE is under the control of the military, with revenue going to the military. For this reason, it has been sanctioned by the UK and USA.
Contact:
Toshikazu Tajima, CEO
Takasi
3-1, 7-chome
Minatojima Naka-machi
Chuo-ku
Kobe 650-0046
Japan
Email: info@tasaki.co.jp
Sources:
Takasi Global website accessed January 2022
https://www.tasaki-global.com/about-tasaki/corporate/outline/
After being placed on the ‘Dirty List’ Tasaki removed reference to Myanmar on their website, here is a saved PDF of the page.
Takasi Global Website accessed January 2022
https://www.tasaki-global.com/about-tasaki/pearl/
After being placed on the ‘Dirty List’ Tasaki removed reference to Myanmar on their website, here is a saved PDF of the page.
Human Rights Now and Justice For Myanmar call on TASAKI to end business with the Myanmar military junta, following US designation of Myanmar Pearl Enterprise for sanctions, 21 April 2021:
Notified 20th January 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.”
A PDF of the full Dirty List is available here.