Support for Sports
Support for Kyoto Sanga F.C.
Since 1997, HORIBA has supported Kyoto Sanga F.C., J League’s Kyoto-based professional soccer team, and its activities as a sponsor. In addition, Atsushi Horiba has served as chairman of the Kyoto Purple Sanga Cheering Group, the team's supporters’ association, since the group was organized in 1996. In this way, HORIBA has deepened its exchanges with local people mainly through support of the team and soccer events. In the future, based on these support activities, we will strive to help develop sound youths and enliven Kyoto's communities.
Support for Athlete Employees
HORIBA considers the growth of talented personnel and the attitude of taking on new challenges to be important. In order to develop the next generation of capable personnel, in accordance with our corporate philosophy “Open & Fair,” we actively support our employees with an environment that enables them to take on new challenges as they aspire to realize their dreams.
Archer, Utano Agu
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Joined HORIBA in 2021, General Affairs Department. Graduated from Doshisha University. Born in Kyoto prefecture, Japan
(Photo: Archery Magazine “ACCURATE & DYNAMIC SORT ARCHERY”)
After being a classical ballet dancer as a child, Agu has applied herself to archery since her junior high school days. As a high school student, she set the national recurve record for high school girls (660 points / 72 arrows) at the time. In September 2020, she was the driving force behind the Doshisha University team, which she was the captain of, helping them to win the All Japan Student Archery Women's Championship. She was among the contenders at the last selection event for the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo, in which she made efforts to participate, but narrowly missed out.
Having joined HORIBA to make a renewed start as an archer, at the final selection of the 19th Asian Games, she was selected for the Japan national team in April 2022, then she won the gold medal in Women's Recurve Individual Final of PARIS 2022 HYUNDAI ARCHERY WORLD CUP STAGE 3 in June 2022. It is the first time in history that a Japanese player has won the same event in the World Cup! She is committed to both competition and work and continues to challenge the world.
<Selected records>
- 1st Place, the 66th All Japan Target Archery Championships (2024)
- 1st Place, Recurve Women, PARIS 2022 HYUNDAI ARCHERY WORLD CUP STAGE 3 (2022)
- 2nd Place, Recurve Women, the 30th All Japan Indoor Archery Championships (2021)
- 1st Place, Recurve Women Team, the 55th All Japan Student Archery Women's Championship (2020)
- 4th Place, Recurve Women Team, and 5th Place, Recurve Women, Taipei Asia Cup Leg 2 (2019)
- 2nd Place, the 57th All Japan Student Archery Individual Championship (2018)
- 9th Place, Recurve Women Team, Bangkok Asia Cup (2018)
- 3rd Place, Recurve Women, the 48th National High School Archery Championship (2016)
- 2nd Place, Recurve Women, the 34th National High School Archery Invitational Tournament (2015)