Social contribution

Basic policy

Hamamatsu Photonics regards its true goal as the discovery of scientific breakthroughs that benefit society. As they devote themselves to developing groundbreaking photonics technologies and related applications, our employees always bear foremost in mind the higher goal of wielding those discoveries in the service of communities, society and humanity.

Artistic and cultural activities

Once a year Hamamatsu Photonics convenes the Hamamatsu Conference. This conference serves as an opportunity for the Company to contemplate and discuss new directions in serving society. It is also a forum for explaining to communities, in plain, jargon-free language, the significance of the Company’s leading-edge research on photonics technology.

 

Hamamatsu Conference

Academic promotion activities

In partnership with the Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology, Hamamatsu Photonics works to disseminate and raise awareness of photonics technology through international conferences and research support activities.

Conference of Peace through Mind/Brain Science

The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the pace of economic and industrial globalization has accelerated. For decades Japan has built the foundations of its economic might by learning from the academic and technological advances of foreign countries and developing its own technological innovations and applications on that basis. Today Japan stands on the brink of a new direction. We have reached the stage where we have to create new industries, in turn giving rise to new cultures, and communicate them to the world. The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, established by the Company and its partners, focuses on the study of photonics. The School’s priority is to develop people with entrepreneurial spirit capable of creating new industries by harnessing the unlimited potential of light.

 

The Graduate school for the Creation of New Photonics Industries

Hamamatsu Medical Imaging Center, Hamamatsu Medical Photonics Foundation

We aim to contribute to a healthy and long-lived society by enabling the early detection and early treatment of diseases such as cancer and dementia through optical technology. With this goal in mind, the Hamamatsu Medical Photonics Foundation was established in 2002, founded by Hamamatsu Photonics. Currently, the "Hamamatsu Medical Imaging Center" is set up within the premises of Hamamatsu Photonics Central Research Laboratory, conducting various examinations, diagnostics, and clinical research centered on PET scans. With the slogan "Aiming for a healthy and long-lived society where people do not die from cancer and do not suffer from dementia," we are committed to our mission.

 

Hamamatsu Medical Photonics Foundation / Hamamatsu Medical Imaging center