Corporate Citizenship Activities

Based on its Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities and Philanthropy, Sysmex actively engages in corporate citizenship activities that lead to the creation of a healthy society and a vibrant local community while encouraging employees to proactively participate in these initiatives.
In fiscal 2025, we implemented our Group-wide program, the Sysmex Gives Back Campaign, across two periods: from June to September and from October to January of the following year. Through these initiatives, employees participated in a wide range of corporate citizenship activities, including blood donations, environmental activities, and programs focused on health and medical care, development of the next generation, and disaster aid. Across both periods, a total of approximately 5,000 employees worldwide participated in these activities.

In its Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities and Philanthropy, Sysmex states its commitment to supporting employee volunteer activities. We encourage proactive participation by establishing a volunteer leave system and other initiatives. In addition, we have introduced the Social Contribution Point Program, under which employees earn points by participating in community volunteer activities or company-sponsored corporate citizenship initiatives. Under this program, we make donations based on the points accumulated by employees. In fiscal 2025, approximately 2,200 employees participated in the program, resulting in donations to three organizations: the NPO Japan Heart, the Mirai Kodomo Foundation, and the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Sysmex actively participates in the Pink Ribbon campaign, a global awareness movement in the field of breast cancer, and implements a variety of initiatives throughout the year to support breast cancer patients and their families.
Since fiscal 2023, we have been collaborating with our overseas Group companies to hold global awareness events under our original initiative, “PINKTOBER,”¹ during October, the Pink Ribbon awareness month. We are driving community-based initiatives worldwide, including donation programs based on the number of photos submitted by employees, employee-led awareness and volunteer activities, participation in charity walks supporting cancer patients, and fundraising through the purchase of Pink Ribbon-related merchandise.

Supporting the SmileSmilePROJECT organized by Japan Heart—a non-profit organization that is one of the donation recipients under our Social Contribution Point Program, we invited approximately 30 children battling pediatric cancer and their families to Universal Studios Japan in September 2025. On the day of the event, 10 employees participated as volunteers to help ensure that the children and their families enjoyed a memorable day together.

As part of its contribution to the local community, Sysmex Corporation has been working to enhance local school education. Since fiscal 2022, we have delivered visiting lectures to elementary school students in collaboration with the Kobe City Board of Education, with the aim of promoting health literacy and education. Using original educational content themed around the functions of blood, we provide opportunities for students to deepen interest in the human body and think about the importance of health. These lectures are delivered by employees who have registered for our voluntary Partnership System to serve as instructors.
Since fiscal 2023, we have been participating in the Kobe SDGs Exploration Program organized by the Kobe Tourism Bureau to provide educational support for junior and senior high school students. We have also welcomed students from eight schools, providing them with opportunities to think about “Exploration, the SDGs, and Careers” and to reflect on their own future paths and career development. In addition to showroom tours introducing Sysmex’s business, we use karuta-style (card game) learning materials featuring sustainability activities, allowing students to deepen their understanding of the SDGs in an enjoyable way.
Furthermore, we provide educational support at our R&D bases for schools designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as “Super Science High Schools,” which offer advanced education in science and mathematics. Aimed at fostering the next generation of scientists and engineers capable of thriving in the international community, we offer lectures on research and technology, tours of our R&D facilities, and opportunities to interact with our researchers.

Sysmex Corporation supports the “Enlist the Participation of All Citizens in Creating Woodland” project promoted by Hyogo Prefecture. We lease approximately two hectares of the 17-hectare “Kawai Kaiteki Forest” in Ono City, Hyogo Prefecture, where our reagent factory is located, and call it “Sysmex Forest.” Here, employee volunteers engage in forest maintenance activities, such as tree thinning. Through these efforts, we aim to help create and preserve satoyama landscapes where people and wildlife can coexist and thrive together.

In support of the Sports Experience Program¹ implemented by the City of Kobe to promote children’s healthy development and foster regular exercise habits, the Sysmex Women’s Track & Field Team conducted a track and field clinic.
This track and field clinic provides children with an opportunity to experience the joy of sports and track and field while also contributing to the realization of our Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities and Philanthropy of  “Contribution to a healthy society.” In fiscal 2025, the program was held at two schools in the city, with plans to expand the number of participating schools in the following fiscal year.