Mitigating Environmental Impact with Urban Development

We cooperate with local governments in redeveloping infill sites, transforming the areas surrounding our properties into an environmentally friendly neighborhood. Also, we remediate historical environmental contamination, put abandoned or brownfield land to higher and better use, and enhance or build new infrastructure. Some of our initiatives are as follows:

“Humming Road” in Narashino, Chiba Prefecture

• The Humming Road is a 12-km long greenway that runs from the northeastern part of Narashino City through the center of the city to the sea. Prologis has developed and opened a portion of Prologis Park Narashino 4 (1,330^m2) as part of this greenway.
• This site is designated as having one of the 100 best views of Mt. Fuji by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and the greenway was developed to meet the needs of the local community, including the construction of a viewing platform.

Brownfield Development in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture

• We are planning the phase 2 of the Prologis Koga Project that has a total site area of approximately 175,200 square meters. This will be the largest site in terms of floor space that Prologis has ever developed in Japan.
• We constructed an underground barrier wall around the periphery of the site and then removed the existing highly contaminated soil and buried waste.

Disaster Prevention in Partnership with Local Authority

Disaster Prevention Agreement

Prologis recognizes that our facilities serve as significant sources of social infrastructure to the communities that we operate in and we continue to explore more proactive ways to contribute to our local communities. One of the initiatives in Japan is to promote partnerships with local authorities in disaster management. To date, we have agreed with municipal governments to provide an evacuation center in the event of a natural disaster in Inagawa and Chiba (in 2019 and 2020 respectively). For Chiba, we will be providing our parking spaces for the evacuees so that they can spend the night in their cars and avoid contact with others, which has become important recently due to the pandemic. Also in 2021, Prologis signed an agreement with the Kyotanabe city government, where measures to evacuees are critical because of its strategic location that connects major railways and arterial roads in the greater Osaka area.

Conducting Evacuation Drills

From the standpoint that natural disasters are a critical risk for every stakeholder at Prologis, we conduct evacuation drills in case of emergency such as fire and or other natural disasters such as earthquakes, etc. At Prologis Park Ichikawa 1, a large-scale drill mobilizing aerial ladder trucks was conducted in cooperation with both Ichikawa and Urayasu cities’ fire departments and local fire brigades.

Prologis Park Ichikawa 1

Prologis Park Inagawa 1・2

Contributions to Logistics Industry

Aspiring to develop future innovative leaders in the logistics industry in Japan, Prologis established the Prologis Academy in 2019. The program focuses on developing talent in supply chain management and logistics through focused interactive learning, including Prologis facility tours showcasing innovation and technology in action at our distribution facilities.

Chair Course by Prologis (Waseda University)

Since 2006, Prologis has been sponsoring Waseda University Graduate School of Commerce’s “Logistics / Supply Chain Management (SCM) Course”. The series of lectures provide insights into the concept of logistics and SCM. In addition, Miki Yamada, President of Prologis Japan, delivered lectures for undergraduate students at Waseda University in 2017 and 2018.

Volunteer for the Museum of Logistics

Employees of Prologis Japan regularly participate in volunteering for the Museum of Logistics in Tokyo. Volunteers make patterns by cutting and assembling pieces of cardboard for a children's arts and crafts activity, known as the "vehicles of logistics." The children build and decorate their own toy vehicle, choosing from delivery trucks, steam trains and cargo ships. The team's most recent efforts created enough materials for the museum to use during craft events held for children during summer vacation. We hope to continue our partnership with the museum, which is the only logistics museum in Japan, and by providing the manpower to make these kits for children, the museum can allocate their resources to other initiatives that will help further assist the logistics industry in evolving to the next level.

Relationship with Trade Associations

As part of Prologis’ commitment to the logistics real estate industry, Miki Yamada serves as a chairperson of Industrial Real Estate subcommittee at the Real Estate Companies Association of Japan. Representing the logistics real estate industry, Prologis contributes to further establishing the industrial sector by chairing the subcommittee and recommending regulatory and policy changes ranging from taxation, data collection, etc., and other initiatives.

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