Corporate Citizenship Activities

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 special events under our original initiative name, “PINKTOBER¹,” during the Pink Ribbon awareness month of October. In fiscal 2024, as a new initiative, we adopted a mechanism that transforms a single photo into a donation and collected approximately 800 photos containing the color pink from employees worldwide to create a mosaic artwork. In Japan, we participated in Relay For Life², with about 130 employees taking part in self-walk relays and charity walks to support cancer patients. Employees in various regions across the globe also proactively engaged in awareness-raising and volunteer activities tailored to their respective communities. As a result, a total of 287 Group employees participated in the Pink Ribbon campaign during the month of October 2024. Going forward, we will continue to promote the Pink Ribbon campaign throughout the Group and contribute to the realization of a fulfilling and healthy society by supporting each individual’s healthcare journey through awareness-raising activities in the field of breast cancer.

• 1 PINKTOBER is a unique name created in-house by combining “Pink Ribbon” with “October,” the designated month for the Pink Ribbon campaign.
• 2 Relay For Life is a charity event aimed at cancer control, organized by the Japan Cancer Society.

As part of its contribution to the local community, Sysmex Corporation has been working to enhance local school education. Since fiscal 2022, it has delivered visiting lectures to elementary school students in collaboration with the Kobe City Board of Education, with the aim of promoting health education. Sysmex has created original content that provides opportunities for students to become interested in the human body and think about the importance of health through learning about the functions of blood, among other topics. We have also delivered lectures together with our employees who have registered for the voluntary Partnership System.
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. With the objectives of thinking about “Exploration, the SDGs, and Careers” and providing opportunities to consider their future course, we invited students from three schools to give them a presentation on Sysmex’s sustainability activities toward achieving the SDGs, a tour of our showroom, and a career orientation workshop in which they could interact with employees. Furthermore, at our research and development bases, Sysmex has been providing educational support to 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. As part of our activities to cultivate the next generation of scientists and engineers who can play an active role internationally, Sysmex has been providing educational support at our research and development bases for their students. This involves lectures on our company’s research and technologies, tours of R&D facilities, and opportunities for interaction with Sysmex researchers. 
In fiscal 2024, we also participated in the “EXPO School Caravan” organized by the Cabinet Secretariat in conjunction with Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, for which Sysmex is a sponsor. This initiative aims to encourage students across Japan to think about the future of society and connect their thoughts to future actions. We visited junior high schools in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Kochi, where we conducted not only regular visiting lectures but also workshops that explored what society might look like 50 years from now.

As part of the “Enlist the Participation of All Citizens in Creating Woodland” project promoted by the Hyogo Prefectural Government, Sysmex Corporation took responsibility for a two-hectare portion of the 17-hectare Kawai Kaiteki Forest near our reagent factory in the city of Ono, Hyogo Prefecture. We dubbed this portion the “Sysmex Forest” and aim to make it a place of tranquility for people and wildlife, through employee volunteer activities including tree thinning.