JSR Group provides support for young-generation development and education opportunities through continued efforts to provide education and internship opportunities to students both in Japan and abroad. We also provide career experience opportunities. Since FY2020, we have continued to scale back face-to-face activities to help check the spread of COVID-19.

We provided assistance to students who are facing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By providing scholarships through universities, we aim to help students, who will create our future, concentrate on their studies.

The Human Resources Development Program in Chemistry was created by the Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA) in October 2010. It is based on a proposal made in a report prepared in April of the same year by the "Kagaku Bijon Kenkyukai" (chemistry vision study group) of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The program informs universities of the chemical industry's human resources needs. The industry then supports the university courses that can meet these needs and their students. The program’s purpose is to develop the young people who will serve as the foundation for stronger international competitiveness and industrial promotion in Japan's chemical industry. We use the program to support courses engaged in outstanding initiatives and their students.

KBI Biopharma, Inc. in the U.S. streamed podcasts sponsored by STEMblazers and worked as a facilitator of experiments in middle schools.
STEMblazers is an organization that communicates information and holds events that enable female students to imagine a career in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).

At the request of an engineer’s association from Mie Prefecture, JSR provided technical internships to local high school students to develop young people with technical skills who will be responsible for local industry in the future.

Since 2014, with cooperation from JSR Group and JSR Labor Union, has participated in the "Memory Book Bag (Randoseru) for Children in Afghanistan" drive held by JOICFP, an NGO engaged in international cooperation. Through the event, we donate used school bags to underprivileged children in Afghanistan to assist in their education. The event's aim is to help give children the knowledge and information they need to keep themselves and their families healthy by attending school and learning to read and write. In May 2021, we again donated book bags as well as pencils, notebooks, and other stationery. We will remain involved with this event as a form of social contribution in which individual employees can participate.

• JOICFP (external site)

SOAT is a non-profit organization that carries out support activities for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 by creating motivation in life through art workshops. JSR agrees with the objective of SOAT’s activities and supports these activities.

• NPO Supporting Organization for Artists of Tohoku (external site)

JSR Micro Kyushu Co., Ltd. donated to Sagan Tosu AID through the Saga Mirai Sozo Kikin (“Saga future creation fund”) to support the local soccer team, Sagan Tosu.

JSR Group undertakes various activities to build good relationships with local communities and people living nearby. The Group’s offices and plants in Japan and abroad continually conduct clean-ups targeting nearby communities, coastlines and rivers, and other areas.

Crown Bioscience San Diego Ltd. in the U.S. teamed up with Mapping Through Life and cleaned up the San Diego River in April 2021. They removed trash to beautify the river and maintain its natural state.

The Techno-UMG Co., Ltd. Ube site participates in hands-on forest development that protects water resources, as part of the local water resource conservation activities in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
It participates in these activities each year as a member company of the Kotogawa Industrial Water Users' Association. Their aim is to cultivate and maintain the water sources of the Kotogawa Dam watershed while also encouraging a better understanding of the roles that forests have and the necessity of forest development through hands-on thinning of trees and bamboo.

Each year, Techno-UMG also participates in efforts to protect and nurture grasslands on the Akiyoshidai Plateau, located in Mine City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
These activities are traditional events undertaken with the participation of concerned organizations and local residents as well as companies that do business in the prefecture and their employees' families.

Techno-UMG will continue to assist with these events and contribute to society in the future.

Emulsion Technology Co., Ltd. and Japan Coloring Co., Ltd. donate a portion of their beverage vending machine sales to the Mie Greening Promotion Association.
The donations are used to promote tree planting, periodic forest thinning, and other forms of greening.

Blood cannot be stored for a long time, nor can artificial blood be created.
JSR Group has long been an active participant in blood donation activities at both domestic and overseas offices and plants. In this way, the Group helps to ensure a stable supply of blood to medical institutions and save the lives of as many people as possible.

JSR Micro N.V. (Belgium) participated in De Warmste Week, a charity event in the Flanders region. This is an event where people in the Flanders region raise funds for various charitable activities. The money raised as a result of the event was donated to a day care center for children who need special care.

In FY2021, JSR Micro Korea in South Korea donated the money collected from the in-house bazaar auction to the Community Chest for Social Welfare.

Crown Bioscience San Diego Ltd. and Crown Bioscience Inc. in the U.S. worked with the U.S. Marine Corps’ annual Toys for Tots drive and donated toys for children in December 2021.

JSR Group's Tokyo and Yokkaichi Districts have participated in the TFT program run by the non-profit organization TABLE FOR TWO since February 2010. We have donated approximately 180,000 meals as of the end of March 2022.

TFT is an initiative for sharing meals with children in developing countries. When an employee purchases a healthy meal designated by TFT, 20 yen of its price is donated to buy a school meal for a child in a developing country. School meals do more than satisfy children’s hunger; they also play an important role in solving issues stemming from poverty by improving school attendance rates and academic performance, improving children’s physical fitness, strengthening disease prevention, and leading to the formation of communities between schools and parents.

Yokkaichi City also has ongoing (CUP FOR TWO) activities that utilize beverage vending machines.

We support activities to prevent illness and donate to the Japan branch of the Médecins Sans Frontières NGO (Doctors Without Borders) programs that provide ongoing treatment for HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases such as cholera and malaria.

Due to the government’s declaration of a state of emergency amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, we continued with our decision last year to use the company’s intranet to present recent happenings and products of the Tohoku region in lieu of the annual “Tohoku reconstruction support market.^*”

Eleven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. While the affected areas are steadily recovering, they continue to need support in rebuilding their communities, providing psychological support, and creating a sense of purpose in life.

* “Tohoku reconstruction support market”: A sustainability project that sells products from three Tohoku prefectures that were particularly affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake (Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima) and fosters communication between employees and Tohoku residents.

Offices and plants of JSR and JSR Group donated to humanitarian aid for the crisis in Ukraine.

Employees at Crown in China and Taiwan volunteered to assist with nucleic acid amplification (NAAT) testing by local governments to screen for COVID-19. JSR actively supports efforts to combat COVID-19.

JSR actively supports employees who voluntarily participate in social contribution activities. Employees can take up to five days of paid leave per year as a part of our paid volunteer leave system. This allows them to participate in social contribution activities that occur during working hours.

• ESG Data (PDF: 344KB)