Social Contribution Activities
Management
Social Issues
Casio operates a wide range of businesses both in and outside Japan and recognizes that accurately identifying the differing issues and needs of local communities and responding sincerely to these issues and needs are essential for Casio to sustain its business in each region. In recent years, there have been strong calls for corporations not only to create economic value but also to consider and contribute to society and the environment. Casio places importance on building strong relationships and developing in partnership with local communities through social contribution activities.
Importance for the Casio Group
Casio aims to increase trust as a company and help to build a sustainable society by meeting the expectations of local communities and engaging in activities that contribute solutions to social issues. Going forward, Casio will fulfill its responsibilities as a global corporation and foster the sustainable development of society as a whole by engaging in continuous dialogue with local communities.
Policy
Casio’s social contribution initiatives aim to help build a healthy, spiritually rich society. The five priority areas are education of the next generation, environmental conservation, community service, welfare and social inclusion, and sports and culture.
Casio implements these initiatives, proactively seeking to communicate with various stakeholders in order to determine how it can be most helpful as a good corporate citizen. In this process, Casio seeks to make innovative social contributions, making the most of its unique expertise and management resources as well as the broad range of knowledge and experience possessed by its employees.
System
Casio promotes community-based social contribution activities under the leadership of the Sustainability Promotion Department in the Brand Communication Headquarters while collaborating with related departments and group companies inside and outside Japan in accordance with the company’s policy on social contribution activities.
Activity Results
Next Generation Education
Invention Ideas Workshop Helps Elementary School Students to Think Up Useful Inventions
Since 2017, developers at Casio Computer Co., Ltd. have been serving as instructors for the Invention Ideas Workshop for elementary school children to have fun while thinking up an invention that is useful for someone.
The Kashio Toshio Memorial Foundation launched the workshop in 2017, the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., in order to convey the commitment to contribute to society by creating inventions. The Foundation was established to honor the accomplishment of Toshio Kashio, one of Casio Computer’s founders who came up with numerous inventions.
A team of developers from Casio Computer served as instructors and got children to think up ideas for “inventions that are useful for people.” After introducing the G-SHOCK development story and doing some mental exercises as preparation for thinking outside the box, the instructors and staff got children to come up with ideas while chatting with them. To date, the workshop has been held at 34 locations around Japan, including elementary schools, cram schools, and kids’ clubs, and has generated a total of 1,296 ideas so far.
In fiscal 2025, we held workshops in Shiraoi in Hokkaido, Shinagawa-ku in Tokyo, Wakayama City in Wakayama Prefecture, Hamura City in Tokyo, and Bunkyo-ku in Tokyo. In Shinagawa-ku, we held a workshop with the theme of the environment. The children came up with many ideas for addressing intense heat, such as a headband to keep cool or warm or a bicycle that uses water on the handlebars and saddle for cooling. The workshop in Wakayama City got children to think about original watches and produced ideas including a talking watch, which is useful for people who cannot move their hands or who are visually impaired, a watch that can quickly help your mom by launching missiles when she is in trouble, and a watch that can tell your mother and father where you are in a disaster.
Workshop
Calculator Disassembly and Reassembly Workshops at Kids’ Events
With a desire to convey the excitement of product creation to children, the leaders of tomorrow, Casio Computer Co., Ltd. has been involved in kids’ events since 2014. In this workshop, the children took apart and reassembled actual calculators with their own hands. Then they learned calculator mechanism and environmentally friendly features.
In fiscal 2025, Casio exhibited products at the events held in August 2024 and in March 2025. A total of 205 children participated.
Volunteer employees served as lecturers and used experiential programs including quizzes and magic tricks to teach the children in a fun and easy-to-understand way about the features of Casio products with environmentally friendly designs, which are “small, lightweight, slim, and energy-saving,” as well as the history of the evolution of calculators, the inside of calculators, and the fun of calculations. Casio will continue to provide support for the education of children who will lead the next generation by offering activities like this.
Workshops
Career Education Support in Collaboration with Key Person 21
Key Person 21 is a certified non-profit organization for youth career education. It promotes activities to bring out the potential in each child and nurture their ability to proactively choose a future that suits them. As a company that focuses on educating the next generation, Casio Computer shares the mission of Key Person 21, and so began supporting the organization in fiscal 2017.
In fiscal 2025, Casio held two types of career education programs, lecture-based and hands-on, for three elementary and junior high schools in Shibuya Ward, where Casio Computer Co., Ltd. is headquartered. Twenty-eight employees participated.
The lecture-based program “Here Come Some Interesting Workers!” aims to provide an opportunity for students to learn about diverse occupations and workstyles and think about their own future. In this program, employees spoke to students in an easily understandable manner, sharing their own childhood experiences and thoughts about the work they now do. The speeches gained the students’ understanding. During the final question time, the students asked a variety of questions about the employees’ work and daily lives. The employees gave each question thoughtful consideration, and the students listened attentively to their answers. Casio also implemented “Favorites Bingo & Job Map,” a hands-on program. Beginning with employee self-introductions that introduce children to the diverse range of departments and positions at Casio, the program continues with small group work designed to foster deep communication between employees and the children as they talk about their favorite things and places. Finally, supported by Casio and Key Person 21 staff, the children explore the different types of possible jobs and opportunities that have something to do with what they love, expanding their vision for their future. We have provided programs for a cumulative total of over 2,000 students up until fiscal 2025.
Results of Collaboration with Key Person 21
No. of times program implemented |
No. of employee participants |
No. of students program implemented for |
|
|---|---|---|---|
FY2017 |
3 |
12 |
186 |
FY2018 |
3 |
34 |
227 |
FY2019 |
3 |
31 |
229 |
FY2020 |
4 |
53 |
248 |
FY2021 |
3 |
7 |
245 |
| FY2022 | 3 | 30 | 229 |
| FY2023 | 3 | 22 | 204 |
| FY2024 | 3 | 26 | 197 |
| FY2025 | 3 | 28 | 266 |
| Total | 28 | 243 | 2031 |
Industry-academia partnership with Musashino Art University
Casio began an industry-academia partnership project with Musashino Art University in fiscal 2018. The starting point for this project is supporting foreign students in their Japanese language studies. Students of Musashino Art University collect information on various initiatives that support multicultural coexistence in Japan and disseminate and share the findings they gain through these activities with society. Casio draws on its insights in the education business and promotion to support the student activities.
The project in fiscal 2025 addressed the theme of coexistence and collected information from the three perspectives of food and war, LGBTQ issues, and child welfare institutions. Through these different themes, the students experienced the importance and difficulties of having meals together. At the end of the fiscal year, the students held an event called “Around One Table – A Form of Coexistence with Everyone Talking Together,” at which they shared the results of their reporting with approximately 50 participants and deepened their thinking on how people from diverse backgrounds can live together. The insights gained through the six months of the activity have served as a valuable learning experience and are connected to the promotion of multicultural coexistence in the future.
Co-sponsorship of education contest
Casio (China) Co., Ltd. provides support for efforts to train the next generation of human resources by co-sponsoring an education contest.
16th Shanghai International Studies University Casio Cup Speech and Debate Contest for Chinese Undergraduates and Postgraduates Majoring in Japanese
16th Japanology Study in China Casio Cup for Best Master’s Thesis
Learning Support for Children with Financial Difficulties
Casio donates a portion of the proceeds from online store sales of the S100X/S100NB to Chance for Children, a public interest incorporated association. The funds are used to distribute study vouchers to children with financial difficulties that they can use to pay for cram school sessions, private lessons, hands on programs, and other learning activities.
Environmental Conservation
Beach Cleanup Event Held in Conjunction with World Oceans Day ─ G-SHOCK × Surfrider Foundation
On June 8, 2024, in conjunction with World Oceans Day, G-SHOCK and the Surfrider Foundation held a beach cleanup event at Tsujido Seaside Park in Kanagawa Prefecture. To commemorate the launch of the collaboration model G-5600SRF between G-SHOCK and the Foundation, a total of 264 people, including 40 Casio employees, took part. Participants worked on coastal environment conservation activities together with people from the local community.
Much of the garbage collected was plastic items, such as straws and bottle caps, and metal objects, such as wire, in addition to driftwood, pieces of wood, and cigarette butts. In particular, the event was an opportunity to deepen understanding of the current situation in which garbage that is casually thrown away in the street makes its way to the ocean via the wind and rivers and washes up on beaches, as well as the problem of ocean microplastics, which have a serious impact on the environment.
The participants made comments including, “I was happy to see the area I worked clear of garbage,” and “There were a lot more small pieces of trash than I had expected.”
Through this event, participants were able to share the importance of always disposing of garbage properly and their awareness of less visible environmental issues. The area around the venue looked remarkably clean by the end, and many of the participants felt a sense of satisfaction. Going forward, Casio will continue promoting a variety of social contribution activities to help build a sustainable society.
The long line at participant registration!!
Garbage collected at the event
Supporting the Sanriku Volunteer Divers
Yamagata Casio Co., Ltd. has been supporting the activities of the Sanriku Volunteer Divers since 2016 by loaning them Logosease dive transceivers, which the company developed and manufactures, free of charge.
Sanriku Volunteer Divers is a non-profit organization established with the aim of recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake. The organization continued its efforts to support the revival of the fishing industry and the restoration of the beautiful see and rivers. Now that it is reaching a turning point in the “recovery,” the organization’s activities are focused on restoring the marine environment and supporting fishing industry in the area. In addition, the organization actively engages in environmental education for local children.
Recent years have seen the serious damage of ocean desertification, in which large numbers of sea urchins eat up all the seaweed that has begun to grow, causing the rock surface to become completely white. Sanriku Volunteer Divers has been carrying out activities to regenerate seaweed beds, including monitoring the marine environment, removing and transplanting sea urchins, and growing seaweed. In the past, fishing industry operators regarded the divers as “poachers” and were skeptical about the steady efforts to regenerate the seaweed beds. However, in the areas where seaweed beds have been regenerated through the steady efforts of the divers, sea urchins grow well, abalone have increased, and resources have been recovering. As a result, there has been a big change in local views and awareness, and the local fishing industry operators and divers now actively interact with each other. Diving tours to observe fish farms were held, leading to discovery of new potential in the fishing industry as a resource for tourism.
To raise the sustainability of the fishing industry, including aquaculture, it is essential to maintain and improve the marine environment. However, desertification and other such problems are not yet well known, and there has been no progress in public initiatives. In such circumstances, the activities of Sanriku Volunteer Divers are playing a very important role as a model for similar initiatives across the country.
Many of the people who take part in the activities of Sanriku Volunteer Divers are ordinary recreational divers and snorkelers, and it can be said they are at the forefront of marine environmental regeneration activities. Yamagata Casio supports these activities by loaning its Logosease underwater communication devices, which recreational divers can easily use, and implements initiatives to protect the abundance of the oceans as well as concreate measures to address climate change.
Logosease supports the underwater work of Sanriku Volunteer Divers (photograph shows seaweed bed regeneration)
Community Service Activities
Adopting tulips and Ohga lotus plants
Hamura City, located in Tokyo, is promoting cultivation of tulips and other plants as an effort to preserve fallow rice fields and to make effective use of rice fields after their crops have been harvested. Casio has an R&D center in the city and has been a foster-sponsor for the tulips and for Ohga lotus plants since 2004.
A number of varieties bloom in the greatest tulip field in the Kanto region, which is planted with approximately 400,000 bulbs in roughly 23,000m2 of rice fields, and many tourists visit the tulip festival held in April each year.
Casio became the owner of about 500m2 of one 1,000m2 paddy field and helps to cultivate the Ohga lotus. The descendants of local farmers in Hamura city cultivate the Ohga lotus in fallow rice fields, and the flowers bloom from mid-July through to mid-August. The Ohga lotus plant is an ancient form of lotus from the Yayoi Period (about 2,000 years ago) discovered in the Kemigawa ruins in Chiba Prefecture under the guidance of the late Dr. Ichiro Oga in 1951.
Support for Cherry Marathon in Higashine City
Yamagata Casio has been supporting the Cherry Marathon in Higashine City since 2004. The company’s intention is to become an enterprise that is appreciated by the local residents not only for its corporate activities, but also for its contribution to the local community and Higashine City.
Welfare and Social Inclusion
Helping to resolve social issues with Ittan Partner
Ittan Partner is a project in Japan organized by the Agriculture and Welfare National Council of the Shizensaibai Party that encourages corporations to support rice cultivation at a welfare center for one season. The project supports welfare centers with their projects to convert abandoned farming land into rice paddies and to work with people with disabilities on the land to grow rice using natural cultivation (shizensaibai) without agricultural chemicals and chemical fertilizers. Then, corporations buy the rice harvested from one tenth of a hectare (ittan) for a set price regardless of the yield. The aims are to combine job satisfaction and increase income (to support financial independence) for people with disabilities, revitalize abandoned farming land, and provide safe food.
Endorsing the aims of the project, Casio has been supporting two tenths of a hectare’s worth of rice per year since 2017. As a part of its educational programs, the company also recruited volunteers to work with people using the welfare center to carry out rice planting in spring and harvesting in autumn. The employees who took part had impactful experiences as they actually communicated with people with disabilities. This is expected to lead to new perspectives and learning that cannot be obtained through everyday life and work.
Along with Ittan Partner, in addition to contributing to solving the social issue that is the aim of the project, Casio hopes that the awareness and learning of these employees will promote understanding of people with disabilities and lead to new projects, products and services designed to solve social issues. Harvested rice was provided in employee cafeterias to spread awareness of this activity within the company and also given to children’s cafeterias close to Casio headquarters.
In August 2024, 16 Casio employees and their family members took part in the rice planting experience. In October 2024, 26 Casio employees and their family members took part in harvesting rice. Since 2017, a total of 284 Casio employees and their family members have taken part in the farm work.
Participants of all ages harvest rice and hang it to dry over the rice paddy
Sponsoring and Participating in the “Respite Trip” Program Organized by Certified NPO Oyako Haneyasume
While advances in medical technology have increased the number of lives saved, there has also been an increase in the number of children who need daily care using medical devices. Families provide nursing care 24 hours a day, and it is difficult for them to find time to rest amid the intense stress. In addition, because parents are busy with nursing care, siblings are quite often in an environment where they must persevere without being able to rely much on their parents. Care is required to support such siblings in addition to the child whose life was saved.
Casio has been supporting the activities of the certified non-profit organization Oyako Haneyasume since 2017. Oyako Haneyasume runs programs such as Respite Trip, Sibling Camp, and Day Trip to provide families who find it difficult to travel or go out with the chance to take a break from daily life and have the time to recharge with the help of various volunteers, including medical professionals.
Having a child who needs their family to provide medical care, such as respiratory management using a ventilator, suction of sputum, or urinary catheterization, can happen to anyone. However, there are not many opportunities to learn about the realities of the situation. For people who are not often involved in medical care, learning about how we can help and that there are people around us who are willing to help in various ways is also an opportunity to reaffirm the significance of caring for other people.
Casio has continued its support for the programs by recruiting employee volunteers and working with them on activities to create opportunities for gaining new insight based on our philosophy that we “Continue to create the things that are most important to users.”
Respite Trip
Product disassembly and separation work contracted to a welfare workspace
Aiming to be a company that is good for people and environmentally friendly, Casio Business Service Co., Ltd., has contracted disassembly and separation work of Casio products to a welfare workspace operated by a social welfare corporation as part of its recycling initiatives in product disposal since 2000. Recently, the workspace has been disassembling and separating mainly used tape cartridges and ink ribbon cassettes collected at Casio Eco Stations. At the welfare workspace, which enrolls persons with disabilities, most of the work is light work such as making bags and presentation boxes and folding leaflets.
Work such as disassembly and separation increases their concentration and ability to keep going on a task, which also gives the workers a high sense of fulfillment on the job. This initiative is considered to support the independence of workers through social education and the acquisition of morals and rules. As part of its CSR initiatives, Casio Business Service will continue contracting out this work to help support the independence of workers.
Disassembly and separation of tape cartridges and ink ribbon cassettes
Support for People's Hope Japan
People's Hope Japan is an NGO involved in international cooperation. It provides support for activities focused on educating people in developing Asian countries about insurance and healthcare. As a company that supports the organization's mission, Casio has been corporate sponsor since 2006.
Sports and Culture
Sponsorship of the World Children’s Baseball Fair
The World Children’s Baseball Fair, advocated by home run kings Sadaharu Oh of Japan and Hank Aaron of the United States, invites boys and girls from around the world to baseball classes and international exchange programs under a mission to “expand and promote baseball throughout the world, as well as promote a circle of friendship and goodwill among children all over the world.”
Since the first fair was held in Los Angeles in 1990, boys and girls from around 15 countries and regions have been taking part every summer, and baseball clinics and international exchange games have also been held. Casio Computer supports the objectives of the fair and has been a sponsor ever since the third fair in 1992.
30th World Children’s Baseball Fair
Support for the TOYOTA Junior Golf World Cup
The TOYOTA Junior Golf World Cup is a world team championship in which junior national teams from over 20 countries and regions compete on behalf of their countries. In addition to improving competitive skills, the objective is to strengthen the foundation for developing the next generation of players through a tournament where players interact with team members from other countries and captains and coaches from each country present and share information on their development programs. Casio Computer sponsors the tournament and supports the development of young players, including by providing a G-SHOCK model that features the name of the tournament as a commemorative item for all the players and coaches taking part.
Alumni of the tournament include many top professionals, including Masters champions and Olympic medalists. Going forward, Casio will support athletes and the next generation of juniors who continue to take up the challenge through sports activities, including golf.
Supporting the Kitashibu RunRun Festa
Shibuya-ku has been holding the Kitashibu Mile/Kitashibu RunRun Festa, with the one-mile race (approximately 1.6 km) as the main event, in the northwest of the ward (the Kitashibu area) since 2022 as “an event in which people and the city come together as one,” based on the concept of “regarding the whole of Shibuya-ku as a 15-square-kilometer playing field.”
As a company with its head office in Shibuya-ku, Casio Computer actively supports the Kitashibu RunRun Festa, in which anyone can participate regardless of age or disability. Casio Computer regards it as an important event that fosters a festive atmosphere in the community and promotes local revitalization. Specifically, it also provides operational support, such as by providing space at its head office for the setup of waiting rooms for invited athletes and temporary toilets.
Other
Support for the Casio Science Promotion Foundation
Casio is contributing to the development of science and technology by supporting the Casio Science Promotion Foundation.
About the Foundation
The Casio Science Promotion Foundation was established in 1982 by the four Kashio brothers and the former chairman, Shigeru Kashio.
The Foundation provides research grants with the principle objective of fostering pioneering and creative research in the early stages by young researchers who are persevering with challenging research on limited funding. This is based on the philosophy that advanced R&D should be promoted in various fields, in order to fulfill the Foundation’s mission of helping Japan contribute to the world as a nation of advanced technology.
The Foundation provides grants in a wide range of scientific fields—from cutting-edge device research in electronic and mechanical engineering to natural sciences related to telecommunications, AI, IoT, environmental electronics, health, sports, and health engineering—as well as in the cultural sciences including human resources development, human behavior and information and communication technology (ICT) in education.
Over the last 42 years, the Foundation has provided a total of about ¥2,286.27 million in 1,705 grants.
Grants in fiscal 2025
Adding to its existing 22 basic categories in six fields, the Foundation established a special topic (research intended to help build a sustainable world).
257 proposals were received from 103 universities. Based on a rigorous selection process, a total of 87.0 million yen in grants was awarded to 51 different proposals.
42nd Grant Presentation Ceremony (fiscal 2025)
Support for Victims of Eastern Taiwan Earthquake
Casio donated relief funds to aid victims of the earthquake that struck off the coast of eastern Taiwan in April 2024, seeking to help ensure the quickest possible recovery in affected areas.
Donation: 3 million yen
Recipient: Japan Red Cross Society
*Updated on January 7, 2026