Social Contribution Activities

Hagiwara Electronics is hosting the Hagiwara Solution Day, an online event with the theme "Future Mobility". The event features guest speakers from automotive journalists and semiconductor analysts, lectures by partner companies, and various content including the latest trends and technology trends related to future mobility and electronics. We will contribute to the realization of a sustainable society by creating new value together with society and partners while creating various opportunities and encounters with business partners, students and the general public.

In fiscal 2023, Hagiwara Electronics launched the Co-Sou project to create new business possibilities through collaboration among companies, universities, and individuals. In this project, we aim to organically connect and promote companies such as our customers, partners, as well as the next generation of planning personnel, so that all parties can take the next step together. By leading open innovation and co-creating commerce, we will create new services and products and take on challenges together with co-creation partners, and we will create a mechanism to deliver technologies and services created from 0 to 1 to society after growing them from 1 to 10. We will drive these initiatives by leveraging the strengths of trading companies.

In November 2023, as part of our open innovation activities, we held a program with the cooperation of the Kuwasawa Design school, a technical college, to think about future designs for products of Hitachi Channel Solutions, Corp.
The participants said that they would like to use the findings and viewpoints gained through the discussions with the students for future product creation and overall development.
We will continue to open up new business possibilities by Co-Sou.

In addition to making donations to university funds and laboratories, the Hagiwara Electric Group promotes mutual support and joint activities through exchange of technologies and human resources related to its business fields, and strives to disseminate innovative technologies for the future and support human resources development for the next generation.
Going forward, as social issues become increasingly diverse and complex, our group will accelerate innovation toward solving social issues by combining the specialized knowledge and technological capabilities of universities with its experience and know-how.

We provide support for the activities of the Hagiwara Foundation of Japan, an organization that develops subsidized research projects to support research institutions, researchers, and engineers who are engaged in science and technology development in a variety of fields.

Hagiwara Electronics is conducting joint research using edge AI and drones with the Mechanical Control Laboratory (Professor Manabu Yamada) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology.
This research focuses on developing a demonstration system in which a wall-contact type drone collects sound data by tapping on wall surfaces, which is then analyzed by AI to determine the state of separation of exterior tiles of a building.

To date, we have implemented an AI model provided by Nagoya Institute of Technology that learns the sound of tapping on tiles into an RZ/V2L evaluation board, made by Renesas Electronics Co., Ltd., and verified the AI judgment of the the state of separation of exterior tiles by a theoretical analysis.
By replacing the work in which workers used to set up scaffolding and manually check for external wall abnormalities with an AI-equipped wall-contact type drone, we can expect various effects, such as solving the labor shortage and improving time efficiency, as well as ensuring work in a safe environment by reducing work at heights.

We have been conducting human resource exchanges through in-house lectures and workshops led by Professor Shigeyuki Takagi of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, who has extensive experience in the field of power electronics. This is due to our research support activities for next-generation automotive technologies, which are closely related to the business areas of the Hagiwara Electric Group. These activities not only deepen employee knowledge but also contribute to the promotion of technological exchanges both inside and outside the company.

In FY2024, we held two lectures covering a wide range of topics, from basic theories based on research results and practical experience to the latest technological trends. A total of 160 employees, including online participants, participated in the lectures. The participants were highly satisfied with the lectures, with comments such as, "The explanations were very easy to understand based on engineering experience," and "I was able to remember what I learned when I was a student."

Each business site conducts voluntary cleanup activities around the site as part of environmental beautification activities.

As part of our efforts to support the careers of the next generation, we have accepted corporate visits by students from junior high schools in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City.
Our aim is to help students build their careers by introducing them to the ways in which the Hagiwara Electric Group's businesses and technologies contribute to society and people's lives, and by communicating the meaning and joy of working through dialogue with students. We also conducted tours of the offices where employees actually work so that students could have a more concrete image of working.
We will continue to contribute to the development of the next generation by accepting corporate visits.

We are cooperating with the promotion of career support activities for junior high schools in Nagoya City, and an employee of our company qualified as a career consultant conducted an outreach class. We introduced students to the importance of semiconductors, which support society and industry, as well as topics that will help them build their future careers, such as how to plan their future careers and interview etiquette that will be useful for entrance examinations and thought about them together.

We participated in the "Economics Faculty SDGs Idea Presentation and Exchange Meeting," an exchange event between companies, and students of the Sadoi Laboratory seminar at the Faculty of Economics, Meijo University. The presentations on solving social issues under the theme of "ideas for promoting the SDGs from Japan" showed many of the students' trial and error and ingenuity, including new perspectives and flexible ideas, and we, as the company providing advice, learned a lot.
After the presentations, the students and employees of our company exchanged views on a wide range of topics, and it was a valuable opportunity.
As a company, we will continue these activities in the future and cherish opportunities to exchange and support local students.

We participate in the support group for Nagoya Grampus, a soccer club based in Nagoya where our head office is located. In FY2024, we held a title sponsor game as a one-day partner, helping to revitalize local sports.
In FY2025, we support the activities as a uniform partner of Academy U-18, a nurturing organization of Nagoya Grampus, with the desire to support the success of children who will lead the future of sports.

Since January 2016, we have been conducting fundraising activities through employee volunteers. Donations from these activities and the company’s matching contributions are combined and used to fund the activities of the Chunichi Shimbun Social Project Foundation. We will continue to carry out these activities in the future through the participation of our employees.

Since 2013, we have been donating a portion of our income from selling electricity generated by the solar panels for our remote monitoring demonstration experiment to local governments where our offices are located every year.

We donate a portion of the proceeds from vending machines installed within the company to the Green Fund and for guide dog training expenses.

We provide support as a People’s Hope Japan supporting member for ongoing educational support activities in the field of maternal and child health. People’s Hope Japan is a non-governmental organization (NGO) involved in international cooperation to help people in developing countries in Asia to become self-reliant with a focus on health and medicine education.

We sponsor the activities of the Invention Club, which nurtures the dreams and creativity of local children.

We donate relief funds to assist victims in recovering from natural disasters.

FY2018: In response to the torrential rains of July 2018, we donated disaster relief funds through the Japanese Red Cross Society.
FY2019: In response to a disastrous typhoon in 2019, we donated disaster relief funds through the Japanese Red Cross Society.
FY2020: In response to the torrential rains of July 2020, we donated disaster relief funds through the Japanese Red Cross Society.
FY2023: In response to the Noto Peninsula Earthquake of January 2024, we donated disaster relief funds through the Japanese Red Cross Society.