Relationships with Society
From our founding in the Shinshu, Matsumoto region in 1946 to the present day, Kissei Pharmaceutical has always valued its ties to local communities and embodied a corporate culture that aspires to remain a company deeply rooted in its hometown. Based on our belief in “helping people live healthy and fulfilling lives,” we continue to contribute to society as a good corporate citizen in the areas such as local culture, medicine, health, welfare, the environment, and sports.
Contributions to Medical Treatments and Health
Kanzawa Medical Research Foundation
Since its establishment in 1997, the foundation has promoted the development of healthcare and medical science by encouraging studies from various angles on the causes, prevention, diagnoses, and therapies, etc., of various diseases that occur in women of reproductive age with a focus on the perinatal period and elderly women, thereby contributing to the enhancement of people’s health and welfare.
Kissei will contribute to medical developments through the foundation’s activities.
Contributions to Local Welfare
Donations to Child Welfare Facilities
Since 2006, proceeds from fundraising activities and charity bazaars conducted at culture festivals held at our head office, Matsumoto Plant, Shiojiri Plant, and Nutritional Business Center have been donated to the child welfare facility. These donations also include proceeds from organic compost, a recycled organic fertilizer made using fermented food waste from the employee cafeteria, sold at the school festival.

Ecocap Movement
Kissei contribution activities include the collection of PET bottle caps. The PET bottle caps we collect are handed over to social welfare corporations, which use them to provide work opportunities and improve living conditions.
In fiscal 2023, we collected 30,500 PET bottle caps weighing 61kg, which were handed over to social welfare corporations.
Donating the caps instead of discarding them enables us to contribute to local communities.
Kissei will continue engaging in these activities going forward.
Efforts to Purchase Products Made with Recycled Waste Plastic
General-purpose plastics made from a single material, such as the stretch film packaging, plastic bags, and plastic containers we discard, are recyclable “resources.” We separate this waste and hand it over to companies that collect and are working to recycle waste plastic.
Collection companies recycle the general-purpose plastic collected from Kissei and other companies for use in the manufacture and sales of recycled plastic bags and other products. Kissei helps promote resource recycling through the purchase and use of these recycled plastic bags.
Book Donations
Book donations are a charity system in which books that have been read at work or home are appraised by a specialist company and then an amount equivalent to the total purchase price is donated to a designated organization.
We launched this initiative in September 2010 and to date have donated 7,142 books. One of the organizations we support, the Rikuzentakata City Library Dream Project, used the donations to rebuild the library in July 2017 after it was destroyed in the Great East Japan Earthquake, and continues to use donations to purchase books and for library operating costs. Furthermore, the Nagano Prefecture Mirai Fund, a public interest incorporated foundation, provides grants to help cover the operating costs of NPOs and volunteer groups engaged in reconstruction support activities in areas affected by the Noto Peninsula earthquake that occurred on January 1, 2024.

Social Contribution Activities through Employee Clubs
We also want employee club activities to contribute to local communities through sports. Tennis balls no longer used for tennis club activities are given new life through “tennis ball reuse activities.”

Fiscal year | Donation recipient | Number of tennis balls donated |
2015 | Uchinada, Ishikawa Prefecture | 300 |
2016 | Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture | 535 |
2017 | Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture | 524 |
2018 | Saga City, Saga Prefecture | 612 |
2019 | Nakanoto, Ishikawa Prefecture | 600 |
2020 | Kama, Fukuoka Prefecture | 300 |
Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture | 300 | |
Hachioji, Tokyo | 300 | |
Total | 3,471 |
Used tennis balls are attached to the legs of desks and chairs in elementary and junior high schools, enabling children to study in a quiet and calm environment. They are also used within Kissei to prevent damage to floors.
The provision of tennis balls was suspended in line with the suspension of tennis club activities to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections, but we plan to resume these activities from fiscal 2024.
Contributions to Local Communities
Main activities in fiscal 2023 were as follows.
Period | Organizer | Activity details |
April | Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Shiojiri Plant and Central Research Laboratory tours* (Japan Pharmaceutical Association and pharmacy interns) |
May | Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Cleaning of sidewalks and gutters around business locations and Group companies (Spring Zero Waste Campaign) |
Muromachi Alley Cleanup Committee, Chuo-ku, Tokyo | Cleanup of sidewalks and alleyways in the Nihonbashi Muromachi area by local residents and businesses | |
July | Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Shiojiri Plant and Central Research Laboratory tours* (Japan Pharmaceutical Association and pharmacy interns) |
Nihonbashi-Meikyou (Chuo-ku, Tokyo) | Cleanup of Nihonbashi by local residents, businesses, municipality, etc. | |
August | Matsumoto City Global Warming Prevention Citizen's Network | Uchimizu Mission 2023: Sprinkled well water on the grounds at the head office and Matsumoto Plant |
Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Central Research Laboratory tours (high school students) | |
September | Faculty of Economics and Law, Shinshu University | Environmental law training, Faculty of Economics and Law, Shinshu University |
October | Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Central Research Laboratory tours (high school students) |
Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Cleanup of public facilities, including sidewalks, gutters, and parks, around our business locations and Group companies across Japan (fall cleaning) | |
November | Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Central Research Laboratory tours (high school students) |
December | Anada River Cleanup Committee | River cleanup activities conducted by companies, local residents, and the local government |
Matsumoto City Kyouiku Bunka-center | Participated in science classrooms, involved in planning and management | |
Nagano Association for Conserving Environment | Planning and management of events for the free distribution of member company surplus calendars and diaries to the general public | |
March | Anada River Cleanup Committee | River cleanup activities conducted by companies, local residents, and the local government (cancelled due to inclement weather) |
Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., | Cleanup of sidewalks around business locations (Tokyo Head Office, Koishikawa) |
Note: Held online
Local Cleanup Activities
Kissei and its Group companies conduct cleanup activities around business locations twice each year. In spring and fall, as part of our local environmental conservation activities. In the spring, we conduct the “Spring Zero Waste Campaign” around May 30th to coincide with “Zero Waste Day,” and in the fall, we conduct the “Fall Simultaneous Cleanup” in late October. We will continue engaging in these environmental conservation activities going forward as a sign of gratitude to local communities.

Anada River Cleanup Activities
The Anada, a small river about 5 kilometers long that flows near the Kissei Pharmaceutical Head Office in Matsumoto, became rapidly polluted in the 1960s due to local population growth and industrial expansion in the region. In 1972, Kissei took the lead in establishing the “Anada River Cleanup Committee” to engage in cleanup efforts, bringing together local residents, businesses, and the city government. Since its establishment, the committee aim has been to “protect our hometown rivers using our own hands,” and through environmental beautification activities such as regular cleanups in conjunction with other companies and local residents, as well as the promotion of sewerage system development by the local government, the Anada River has become one of the cleanest in Matsumoto. River cleanups, which have been the main focus since the beginning, are still carried out four times a year, even after 50 years.

Science Classrooms
In Matsumoto, where our Head Office is located, classes on science, astronomy, and programming for students in elementary school and above are held to facilitate learning through play and experience. We endorse this effort, and since 2009, Kissei employees have volunteered as instructors for the “Science Classroom” science-related courses held annually (formerly, the “Parent and Child Science Classroom”). Kissei volunteers exchange ideas on which experiments to conduct, repeatedly engaging in trial and error with safety as the top priority, in order to please participants. Seeing the participants' earnest efforts and their eyes light up at the results is a truly valuable opportunity for employee volunteers, as it enables them to rediscover why they wanted to pursue a career in research and provides them with a renewed sense of fulfillment in their current work. We hope that this activity will help to reverse the recent trend of young people losing interest in science, and by leaving a lasting impression on participants, will inspire them to pursue research careers in the future. Kissei will maintain its commitment to these efforts going forward.

Company Visits for Students
Company visits have become increasingly common to assist students in selecting future career paths. Kissei also conducts company visits, mainly for pharmacy students and junior high and high school students from Nagano Prefecture. Facility tours at the Shiojiri Plant, the Central Research Laboratory, and the Second Research Laboratory, alongside presentations on our operations, provide participants with a good opportunity to learn about our business. We also regularly communicate with local community representatives to facilitate their understanding of our activities.
Environmental Law Training
At the request of Shinshu University, since 2017, we have conducted environmental law training for Faculty of Economics and Law students. This internship provides an opportunity for students to understand how the environmental laws they are studying at university are put into practice in the real world. Students tour Matsumoto Head Office environmental facilities, including wastewater treatment facilities, boilers, cogeneration systems, and waste storage areas. In the conference room, students report on environmental laws and other matters and exchange opinions through mock-legal filing exercises based on Kissei’s environmental data.

Matsumoto Bon-Bon
Matsumoto Bon-Bon, the city of Matsumoto's signature summer event, is held on the first Saturday of August every year. The event takes place in the heart of Matsumoto, which is transformed into a pedestrianized paradise and bustles with dancers from companies and schools, as well as a large crowd of approximately 50,000 spectators. “Kissei Ren” is a dance unit comprising about 150 Kissei Group company employees and their families who perform dances that are “faithful to the basics and full of smiles.” Kissei Ren has won the Grand Prize four times and the Excellence Prize three times in the past. One of the features of this event is that after it ends, all participants and spectators engage in a simultaneous cleanup called “Zero Garbage Bon-Bon.” Those of us in Kissei Ren will continue to promote Kissei's vitality and deepen ties with the local community.

Dispatching Lecturers to Pharmacist Seminars
To assist students in selecting a career path and contribute to the development of the pharmaceutical and local industries, Kissei was asked to dispatch employees as lecturers to the Nagano Prefecture Pharmacist Seminar held annually by the Nagano Pharmaceutical Association for junior high and high school students. Approximately 200 people, including junior high and high school students who are interested in becoming pharmacists, and their parents, attend these seminars. Speakers from the pharmaceutical industry, pharmacies, hospitals, and government agencies lecture on the role of pharmacists in their daily work, the rewards of the job, and other topics. After the seminar, we also offer individual consultations to explain more specific details.

Contributions to the Cultural Arts
Kissei Culture Hall (Nagano Prefectural Matsumoto Cultural Hall) ―Naming Rights
In July 2012, we acquired the naming rights for Nagano Prefectural Matsumoto Cultural Hall, located in Matsumoto City. The purpose for acquiring these rights is to contribute to culture and the arts through maintenance and management of the facility.
The Kissei Culture Hall hosts a wide variety of events, such as the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, concerts, and brass band performances, and is widely known as a base to support cultural and artistic activities in the region.

Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival
Music is a language common to the world. We believe that companies play an important role in the support and cultivation of cultural activities that bring people together and reach them emotionally.
The annual music festival Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival (formerly the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto) is held in Matsumoto City, gathering elite musicians from around the world to form the Saito Kinen Orchestra, performing operas and concerts and producing music of the highest levels transmitted from Japan to the world, carrying on the spirit of the late internationally renowned conductor Maestro Seiji Ozawa and resounding in the hearts of all who hear it. The festival is held in various places in Matsumoto City, including the Kissei Culture Hall, for which Kissei holds the naming rights. Kissei has supported the festival since its inception in 1992.


Contributions to Sports
Support for the Matsumoto Yamaga Football Club
Kissei Pharmaceutical is the official sponsor of the Matsumoto Yamaga Football Club.
The Matsumoto Yamaga Football Club was formed in Matsumoto City in 1965 and is currently a member of the Japan Professional Football League (J-League). Kissei supports the club with a vision of sing soccer as a means to contribute to “town development,”“human development,” and “future development,” bringing vigor and vitality to local communities and supplying dreams and excitement to the community and its children, who have a promising future ahead of them.

Shimin Times Banner Baseball Tournaments
The Matsumoto-based Shimin Times newspaper company holds youth and early bird baseball tournaments every year with the aim of promoting community revitalization and sports culture, as well as fostering a sense of purpose, friendship, and solidarity through baseball. Kissei supports these tournaments, contributing to human health and interactions.

Youth baseball tournament (fiscal 2024)
Marathons and Track & Field Tournaments
Kissei sponsors many events, including the Shinshu Azumino Half Marathon and the Matsumoto Marathon, with the aim of contributing to the healthy physical and mental development of Nagano Prefecture residents.

Shinshu Azumino Half Marathon (fiscal 2024)
Our Relationship with Patients
Product Customer Service Center
We have established the Product Customer Service Center to encourage the proper use of pharmaceutical products in a safe and effective manner, and we have responded to inquiries not only from health care professionals but also patients. In fiscal 2023, we responded to 9,376 inquiries. In addition, we are working to build dedicated phone lines for TAVNEOS®, launched in June 2022 as a treatment for microscopic polyangiitis and granulomatosis with polyangiitis, TAVALISSE®, launched in April 2023 as a treatment for chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, and SAVENE®, a treatment for anthracycline extravasation. These steps have been taken to ensure prompt and accurate responses to questions requiring expertise on rare diseases in the case of TAVNEOS® and TAVALISSE®, and to urgent inquiries regarding SAVENE®.
Patient-Oriented Information Websites
Kissei has established patient-oriented websites to communicate information in its key fields of urology, renal diseases and dialysis, and rare and intractable diseases. These include dedicated websites for people with urinary disorders, dialysis patients, and patients suffering from the intractable disease ANCA-associated vasculitis (Japanese only).
The concept behind these sites is to help patients and their families enjoy their lives. Accordingly, the sites contain activity and diet-related content that can help improve the daily lives of patients. In addition, the sites use a Q&A format to give specific advice focused on the various situations that they may experience. These sites provide an avenue to deliver information highly relevant to the lives of patients and their families as they deal specifically with the disease in question.