Community Contributions

Aiming to strengthen community ties, Kyocera held its first summer festival in 1972 at its Shiga Plant. Since then, Kyocera factories and offices throughout Japan have begun to hold festivals each summer, inviting local residents in what has become a community tradition.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of its founding, Kyocera set up an Inamori Scholarship Fund in the Faculty of Engineering at Kagoshima University to support young students who are eager to pursue higher studies. In addition, Kyocera donated two grand pianos to elementary schools; one grand piano to a junior high school; and scholarship funds to Gamo Town (now called Higashiomi City), the home of Kyocera's Shiga Gamo plant, as an expression of gratitude.

To express our gratitude to local communities, Kyocera donated grand pianos, overhead projectors and color televisions to elementary and junior high schools in Kagoshima, Kyoto and Shiga, and donated medical equipment to local medical institutions.

Kyocera donated a small vehicle with a search light to the Yamashina Fire Station in Kyoto City and presented two Siberian Tigers to the Kyoto City Zoo. In addition, Kyocera donated color televisions to ten city elementary schools in the Yamashina area of Kyoto City.

Kyocera donated a fire engine and three clock towers to Kokubu City in Kagoshima Prefecture, and provided seats for City's athletic stadium grandstands. In addition, Kyocera supported the development of the City's "Children's Forest" and donated educational materials to eight elementary and junior high schools in the City.

In striving to be a company rooted in the community, Kyocera regularly performs beautification activities around its facilities.

Kyocera has been participating in year-end charity drives and fund-raising activities since 1963. Contributions from Kyocera and its employees are donated to local communities with our hope to create local endowments for long-term use. We also strive to be of service to those communities in the long term by using these funds as a foundation.

Kyocera supports local festivals and a variety of events financially, and contributes to local development together with our employees and their family members.

In Higashiomi City, where its Shiga Gamo Plant is located, Kyocera established a “Kyocera Scholarship” in 1969 to promote education. When local governments reorganized in 2006, They utilized these funds to build a library and purchase grand pianos for local junior high schools.

In 2007, at the Kyocera Kokubu and Hayato plants in Kagoshima prefecture, Kyocera started “Kyocera Anti-Crime Patrols.” The company attached magnets that state, “Kyocera Anti-Crime Patrol” to its 111 work vehicles used locally, and the company contributes to community safety through local child-care and crime prevention efforts.