Concluded an official sponsorship contract with “FC Ryukyu OKINAWA

(Head office: Meguro-ku, Tokyo; President: Yumi Nomura) has concluded an official sponsorship contract for the 2025 season with FC Ryukyu OKINAWA, a J-League member professional soccer club (operated by Ryukyu Football Club K.K.; Head office: Okinawa City, Okinawa Prefecture; President: Daisuke Yanagisawa). (Operated by Ryukyu Football Club Co.

As part of this sponsorship, in May, the “FC Ryukyu OKINAWA” home game uniforms will display the logo of the Expo sauna “Taiyo no Tsubomi” operated by the Taiyo Group on the chest and collarbone area and an illustration of “Jimbeno,” the official mascot of “FC Ryukyu OKINAWA” wearing a sauna hat. ます。

The Taiyo Group, which aims to realize a “soft and warm” future society, will work to create new experiences through the co-creation of FC Ryukyu and the Taiyo Group through this sponsorship.

Taiyo Group Corporation oversees the Taiyo Group, which includes Taiyo Kogyo Corporation, TSP Taiyo Corporation, and Actio Corporation. Taiyo Kogyo, which is involved in large-scale membrane structures (tent structures), civil engineering and logistics materials, is a Silver Partner of the Expo ‘2025 Japan International Expo (Osaka-Kansai Expo), which opened on April 13, 2025, and is supporting the Expo sauna “Sun Buds” as the organizer’s event.

The Taiyo Group, which aims to realize a “soft and warm” future society by combining the comprehensive strengths of three companies involved in everything from design, architecture, and construction to management, has been involved in about 30 projects at the Osaka/Kansai Expo. Through this sponsorship, Taiyo Group will actively promote co-creation with the local community, including the use of membrane materials used at the Expo, and will disseminate this information from Okinawa to Japan and the world.

The Expo sauna “Taiyo no Tsubomi”, one of the Expo projects, is a completely new “co-creation” space that embodies the society that Taiyo Group wants to create. We hope that as many FC Ryukyu OKINAWA supporters as possible, as well as the people of Okinawa Prefecture, will experience this sauna.

Ryukyu Football Club Corporation operates a J-League member professional soccer club, FC Ryukyu OKINAWA (currently in J3 and J1 club licenses), with the management philosophy of “From Okinawa to the world UMUSAN! is the management philosophy of FC Ryukyu OKINAWA, a J-League affiliated professional soccer club (currently in the process of acquiring J3 and J1 club licenses), which is aiming for promotion to J1. Taiyo Group Corporation invested in Ryukyu Football Club Corporation in October 2024.

The Expo sauna “Sun Buds” is a sauna where visitors can experience the theme of the Osaka-Kansai Expo, “Designing a Future Society where Life Shines Brightly. It features a beautiful, life-like shape of petal-like air membrane cushions that gather to form a single bud, stretching toward the sun. The sun’s energy descends on the “sun buds,” which are covered with the air of the sea, plants, and trees. The space created by the delicate and strong membrane is filled with the energy of nature, and is intended to harmonize our body and soul, and to bring us back to our origins as humans.

Reference: Past press releases related to Expo sauna “Taiyo no Tsubomi” (our website)]

・Updated information on Expo sauna “Taiyo no Tsubomi” (March 7, 2025)

https://www.taiyokogyo.co.jp/news/66300/

Taiyo Group Corporation is the company that oversees the Taiyo Group, which includes Taiyo Kogyo Corporation, TSP Taiyo Corporation, and Actio Corporation.

Since its establishment in 1922 as Nomura Tent Shokai, TAIYO KOGYO has been producing unique products utilizing the characteristics of “membrane” materials with the desire to “contribute to society as much as possible and to deliver excitement to as many people as possible. In line with the expansion of our business domain, TSP Taiyo, which provides event consulting, planning, and production, and ACTIO, which manages events and public facilities, were created, forming the three companies of today’s group, which originated with Nomura Tent Shokai.

Under the Group’s philosophy, established on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Group’s founding, we have continued to pursue the possibilities of membranes, spaces, and experiences, and have been committed to “making the world a softer place. We aim to make the world softer and the future warmer.

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