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Title	LOCOMO CHALLENGE
Client	LOCOMO CHALLENGE COUNCIL
Product / Service	LOCOMOTIVE SYNDROME (A NEW HEALTHCARE CONCEPT)
Category	B02. Non-profit Foundation-led Education & Awareness
Entrant	LOCOMO CHALLENGE COUNCIL Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation	HAKUHODO INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation 2	LOCOMO CHALLENGE COUNCIL Tokyo, JAPAN
Media Placement	HAKUHODO INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
PR	HAKUHODO INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
PR 2	J. PUBLIC RELATIONS Tokyo, JAPAN
PR 3	OZMA Tokyo, JAPAN
Production	HAKUHODO INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Production 2	AOI PRO. INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Additional Company	R’S PARK Tokyo, JAPAN
Additional Company 2	SEESAW INC. Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name	Company	Position
Takeshi Muro	HAKUHODO Inc.	Integrated Marketing Director
Yohei Murakoshi	HAKUHODO Inc.	Creative Director
Masahiko Futara	HAKUHODO Inc.	PR Director
Toru Yasukawa	HAKUHODO Inc.	Copywriter
Kazuko Tanaka	HAKUHODO Inc.	Facilitator
Kazuki Okamoto	HAKUHODO Inc.	Designer
Mariko Noguchi	HAKUHODO Inc.	Resource Portfolio Manager
Tatsuya Asakawa	HAKUHODO Inc.	Account Executive
Kotaro Tachiya	HAKUHODO Inc.	PR Director
Naoko Miyagawa	HAKUHODO Inc.	PR Director
Yoshiaki Hikita	HAKUHODO Inc.	Copywriter
Kenji Ooishi	HAKUHODO Inc.	Account Director
Takashi Ohe	LOCOMO Challenge Council	Chairman/ Orthopaedic Surgeon
Madoka Igarashi	J. Public Relations, Inc.	PR Planner
Naoko Takahashi	OZMA Inc.	PR Planner
Aki Tanaka	R’s park Incorporated	Producer
Ryoko Oishi	R’s park Incorporated	Producer
Takashi Marukawa	AOI Pro. Inc.	Producer
Ayaka Yamada	AOI Pro. Inc.	Director
Yuko Saino	SEESAW Inc.	Designer
Yoshiko Akita	SEESAW Inc.	Web Designer

The Campaign

Defining the lifestage before becoming bedridden as a unique period, clarifying the symptoms of the orthopedic dificiencies, giving it a name and a solution, and allowing people to recognize it can make an issue out of this problem. First, we gave the symptoms a name, Locomotive Syndrome, and nicknamed it LOCOMO. Then, we invented a simple test that anyone can challenge anywhere; stand up from a chair on one foot. According to the level of symptoms, orthopedists diagnose for a set of excersize or medical care. The simplicity of the word and concept, along with the shocking fact that 1 out of 3 Japanese citizens are at risk of LOCOMO quickly caught attention of media, gained target recognition and affected their behavior change.

Creative Execution

- We involved many media by press releases and events, appealing that the LOCOMO is a major crisis of super-aging-society Japan. -With the fact that 1/3 of the population is at risk of LOCOMO, we provoked a counteraction business opportunity. More than 120 companies developed products and services, which then self-promoted LOCOMO through their product promotions. - We engaged more than 700 local governments across the country by the simple LOCOMO Risk Test tool and they held seminars of LOCOMO. - Our initiatives appealed to orthopedic surgeons nationwide, which grew to over 1,500 "LOCOMO Advice Doctors" in all the 47 prefectures in Japan. - We held seminars for local residents to train 3,000 “Evangelistic LOCOMO Mates”. - We urged the Japan government and Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare adopted LOCOMO as one of the national health goals, which is “80% of Japanese are aware of LOCOMO by 2023.”

Tier 1: - 1.0 billion impressions were earned through Japanese media: TV programs featuring healthcare, talk shows, news programs, national newspapers, and healthcare magazines / websites. Tier 2: - LOCOMO awareness among our target (females in their 70 's, with the highest risk of LOCOMO) achieved 80%. - Those who understood LOCOMO were noticed to be exercising three times more than those who do not understand LOCOMO. Tier 3: - A third-party research showed that the size of the market for LOCOMO related products and services reached 1.3 billion USD. - A WHO Director,Dr. John Beard, visited to watch LOCOMO initiatives and evaluated LOCOMO Challenge as "an advanced healthcare initiative, seen nowhere else in the world", which was reported on a national major newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun - Locomotive Syndrome is listed in the latest edition of The Kojien, one of the most famous and authoritative dictionaries in Japan

The LOCOMO Challenge was brought to life as a nation-wide action first from a small team of orthopedists and us, forming a promoting council in the name of NPO LOCOMO Challenge Council. Without business sector alliance, budget was very limited. However, we were confident that this social wellness issue of overcoming locomotive organ deficiencies of age was alerting enough to catch attention as long as we had a strong and simple concept to change perception, and a simple call-to-action to involve every orthopedists and change activity in the society. So, PR strategy was taken for alliance formation and media coverage.

Our strategy was to involve multi-dimensional stakeholders under the common banner of LOCOMO Challenge, revitalize the discussion, make LOCOMO a national concern, and initiate countermeasures. To build a social goal, we fomed together with the Japanese Orthopaedic Association an NPO “LOCOMO Challenge Council" for PR and stakeholder engagement. The core story for PR was the fact that one third of the whole Japanese population are at risk of LOCOMO, and the promotion of the simple test of standing up from a chair on one foot. Our core target is female in her 70’s with the highest risk of LOCOMO, and the target media is mass media reaching these elderlies, that is, TV programs featuring healthcare, talk shows, news programs, national newspapers, healthcare magazines / websites. These media welcomed actionable contents, and many TV shows on-aired the LOCOMO test with renowned personels. Website URL