Faith, Inc.

Horse Therapy

Supporting the horse therapy dissemination activities ran by H.u.G.Plat Tono
The first stable was built in Minato-ku, on the terrace of Minami Aoyama office

The Faith Group has set up “Tokyo Horse Project” which is one of the dissemination activities of the horse therapy in Tokyo City ran by H.u.G.Plat Tono (Representative Director: Mitsuru Hashida, Location: Tono city, Iwate prefecture, hereinafter called "HuG") and started to provide opportunities and venues for people to spend time together with miniature horses.
The society of HuG is made after the Great East Japan Earthquake in Tono city, Iwate prefecture where is known as one of the country's leading horse producing areas to create the opportunities for humans and horses to spend time together to feel the peace of mind. It provides the chances for the people to contact with horses and natures to help their mental recoveries in the reconstruction areas and around.
As the Faith Group supports the purpose of HuG, the terrace on the 4th floor of Faith Minami Aoyama office is covered with the natural grass as a pasture to accommodate the horses and a stable was built for the first time in Minato-ku.
In the future, we will be exploring the possibility of relationships between horses and people in urban cities through more people participating in this project.

About HuG

https://www.facebook.com/hugplat.tono/
The society of HuG is made after the Great East Japan Earthquake to create the opportunities for people and horses to spend time together to feel the peace of mind. The HuG is based in Tono, city in Iwate prefecture and it has been working on activities such as providing contact experiences between children and horses in reconstruction areas, visiting the temporary housing and more. By cooperating with the experts of horses and people's mind and body, we are working on providing the horse therapy, one of the animal-mediated therapies to support the local people to be able to recover mentally from the disaster.

About the horse therapy

The official name is "Horse Assisted Therapy".
This is one of the animal-mediated therapies to gain healing effect for mind and body through interacting with horses.
Occupational therapists, physiotherapists and others have approached from the medical aspect for the purpose of treatment in overseas and it is also drawing attentions in Japan in recent years.