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We conduct various health-related activities to provide a wide range of support for people such as patients and their families.
We cooperate with and hold seminars for citizens to raise awareness of diseases and provide accurate information. In FY2025, five seminars were held focusing on areas such as chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis, and cancer, with approximately 950 participants. Furthermore, we continuously provide the latest information useful for healthcare through our content and applications.
| Delivered Content and Applications | Description |
|---|---|
| "ONO MEDICAL NAVI/For Patients and Their Families" | We have consolidated our previously separate websites, each providing information by disease area, into a single site, and redesigned it to allow users to easily access the information they need. It provides an overview of the main symptoms, examinations, and treatments for diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's disease, osteoarthritis, diabetes, and heart failure. In addition to information on cancer immunology and cancer-related diseases, the site also features interviews with couples who have experienced cancer in the AYA generation, as well as information on the social issues and support needed by patients and their families. Furthermore, we support patients in leading healthy and fulfilling lives through information that is easy to incorporate into their daily lives, such as video introductions to exercise therapy, time-saving recipes, and container gardening. |
| “FukuSapo®” (A digital side-effect management support tool) |
We are providing a side-effect management app called “FukuSapo” free of charge to patient undergoing treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors to help self-care and detect side effects at an early stage. Patients can record their daily physical condition and side effects in the app. Additionally, if the patient has a symptom that the app deems should be reported to a medical institution, it will display an alert on that patient's smartphone screen. The app also allows them to share their record details with other people such as family members. |
| "Grandma's world" (short video) |
Dementia is a disease that affects daily life, and its symptoms are often difficult to recognize, or even if noticed, people may not know how to deal with it. "Grandma's world" introduces how to support people with dementia and their families and caregivers in their daily lives, addressing their struggles and worries, and highlighting the importance of physical contact. |
We have participated in Relay for Life (RFL) as a part of our social contribution activities since FY2014. Relay for Life is a charity activity project conducted by the Japan Cancer Society and the National Action Council of Relay for Life, and is carried out nationwide with the aim of dealing with and overcome cancer. Many employees continue to participate in the RFL events mainly at the locations where our research institutes, plants, and other business sites reside. In FY2025, a total of 316 employees participated at 16 venues across Japan.
We have started a “message flag” activity at our company booth set up at the Relay for Life venue. In this activity, we ask participants to write down their thoughts to our employees on the "message flag," which facilitates communication between our employees and participants. We will continue to utilize the Relay for Life events as opportunities to provide support for cancer patients and their families.
It is estimated that there are approximately 250,000 children receiving long-term medical care throughout Japan. Due to long-term hospitalization and painful treatment, there are many children who get older without experiencing the same things as other children of similar age. ONO supports and works with an authorized NPO, Being ALIVE Japan, which works closely with these children and engages in activities "to form a team to achieve the best childhood, or 'youth,' for children requiring long-term care." In FY2025, we cooperated with holding six sporting events hosted by Being ALIVE Japan for children under long-term care and 62 ONO employees in total participated in the events as volunteers.
In November 2025, we supported the third "TEAMMATES SPORTS CAMP in Kansai" held at Shiawase-no-Mura, Kobe, Hyogo. The sporting camp was 2 days and one night and ten families participated in the event. Children received lessons from professional athletes and joined in curling, soccer, baseball and other sports. Nineteen ONO employees participated as volunteers, assisted in the sports and supported family members. In addition, in this sporting camp, we also held our unique workshop, "Kusuri no Himitsu Manabu" with the expectation that developing an interest in medicine would lead to a positive change in how children interact with medication. Children in white coats engaged in experiments to dissolve tablets and observed how tablets dissolved with fascination.
A digest video of the sports camp filled with children's smiles
Please visit the website of the certified NPO Being ALIVE Japan (Japanese only)
Since FY2014, ONO has been a constant supporting member of a public interest incorporated foundation, "Solaputi Kids’ Camp" (Takikawa City, Hokkaido) , a campsite with on-site medical care that is a dream for children with illness.
Since FY2021, we have been supporting a new project "Snow Gift," which packs fresh, powdery snow from the campsite into boxes and delivers them to children hospitalized in medical institutions in areas where it doesn't snow, so they can enjoy playing with the snow. However, there were cases where the Snow Gift was not delivered smoothly in the hospital and the snow in the box melted. Therefore, ONO's MRs (Medical Representatives), who visit and engage in activities at the target hospitals on a regular basis, provide support as "Snow Delivery Volunteers" by receiving boxes from the package delivery company and directly delivering "fresh snow" to the person in charge of each medical institution.
In February 2026, ONO's MRs handed out Snow Gifts from "Solaputi Kids’ Camp" to persons in charge at 14 medical institutions nationwide. We were able to give the joy of playing in the snow to in-hospital children who have no opportunities to play with snow. We also delivered handmade felt patches made by our employee volunteers along with the snow. Later, we received compliments and letters from the children who played with the snow and their parents and medical staff members. ONO's employees who participated in this activity commented that they were so happy to help with "delivering joy (the snow)."
World Cancer Day was established by the UICC (Union for International Cancer Control) as a day to raise cancer awareness and take action around the world. Ono Pharma supports this mission and has been involved as a partner since 2025.
On World Cancer Day 2026, we participated in the "UPSIDE DOWN CHALLENGE," an initiative to take upside-down photos and post them to encourage people to think about the upside-down impact that cancer can have on lives.
Employees from the ONO Group around the world supported this initiative by coming together to take team photos and create mosaic art pieces, uniting in solidarity with cancer patients. In the mosaic art, the letters "ONO" remain "ONO" even when flipped upside down, representing the ONO Group's unwavering commitment to supporting patients.
As part of Deciphera’s Global All Company Meeting in October 2025, employees from across Deciphera and Ono came together to support Send A Smile Today, a nonprofit founded in 2013 by cancer survivor Kim Whitehouse. Send A Smile Today's mission is to ensure that no cancer patient feels alone by mailing uplifting greeting cards throughout the patient journey, from diagnosis through survivorship. During the meeting, employees handwrote hundreds of heartfelt cards with personal, encouraging messages, which were sent to cancer patients across the United States. This activity reflects the Ono Group's shared commitment to supporting those affected by cancer and reminding patients that they are never alone.
ONO PHARMA KOREA has been supporting the childhood cancer NGO "Hanbit Love Support Association" since 2019.
The organization's "Hanbit Love House" is an accommodation facility for children with cancer and their families who need to travel long distances for hospitalization or hospital visits. In FY2025, employees of ONO PHARMA KOREA and their families held the "Be a Santa for Hanbit Children" event. They delivered gifts to the "Hanbit Love House," accompanied by letters and illustrations, aiming to offer a comforting moment for children fighting illness and their families.
We actively support the blood donation activities of the Japanese Red Cross Society by organizing group blood donation drives using a mobile blood donation units at our Head Office and other major business sites. At our Head Office, we also accept registrations for bone-marrow donors.