Through content and applications, the latest information useful for healthcare is widely and continuously posted and disseminated. We also cooperate with and hold seminars for citizens to raise awareness of diseases and provide accurate information. In FY2024, seven seminars were held focusing on areas such as rheumatism, chronic kidney disease, etc., with approximately 900 participants.

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 sales offices reside. From FY2020 to FY2022, however, the RFL events were scaled back or canceled in even more locations due to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). From FY2023, we began carrying out full-fledged efforts to participate in the events held in each region, and in FY2024, a total of 279 employees participated at 17 locations across Japan.

We have started a new “message flag” activity at our company booth set up at the Relay for Life venue since FY2022. 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.

There are considered to be approximately 250,000 children under long-term care throughout Japan who undergo medical treatment for several months, several years, or longer. 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 FY2024, we cooperated with holding five sporting events hosted by Being ALIVE Japan for children under long-term care and 50 ONO employees in total participated in the events as volunteers.
In October 2024, the second "TEAMMATES SPORTS in Kansai," was held through the sole support of ONO in Shiawase-no-Mura, Kobe, Hyogo. The sporting camp was 2 days and one night and six families participated in the event. Children received lessons from members of university sports clubs and professional athletes and joined in karate, lacrosse, rugby, curling and other sports. Twenty-two ONO employees participated as volunteers, assisted in the sports and supported family members. In addition, in this sporting camp, with the expectation that participants would learn about our ingenuity in manufacturing medicines, become interested in the medicine, and change their approach to medicine, we also held our unique workshop, "Kusuri no Himitsu Manabu." 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 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 January and February 2025, ONO's MRs handed out Snow Gifts from "Solaputi Kids’ Camp" to persons in charge at 14 medical institutions . We were able to give the joy of playing in the snow to in-hospital children who have no opportunities to play with 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 is a global initiative of the UICC (Union for International Cancer Control), which originated from the Cancer Summit held in Paris on February 4, 2000. This day is an important opportunity for people around the world to think together, make commitments, and take concrete action against the common enemy of cancer.
From October to November 2024, the Ono Group conducted a walking campaign for all employees, including those at Group companies around the world, and their families, with the aim of promoting health and contributing to society. This campaign is designed to support World Cancer Day according to the number of participants and the total number of their steps. The result was about 3,600 people from the entire Group participated, walking together as one with cancer patients in mind. This sentiment led to great support for World Cancer Day 2025.

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About World Cancer Day

Ono Pharma supports World Cancer Day 2025 (Japanese only)

The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Center, a facility in Massachusetts surrounded by forest and garden, offers stress reduction programs such as massage therapy and music therapy to improve the quality of life for all people affected by cancer. In May 2024, ONO PHARMA USA employees visited the healing garden and conducted a volunteer activity to wholeheartedly clean the facility and the garden so that visitors could feel comfortable.
In addition, they have been participating in Light The Night, a charity event where lanterns are raised to commemorate and show solidarity with people fighting blood cancer, since 2022, and the ASH Foundation Run/Walk, a charity run/walk to support research to treat blood cancer, since 2021.

ONO PHARMA KOREA has been supporting the childhood cancer NGO "Hanbit Love Support Association" since 2019.
The organization's "Hanbit Love House" in Seoul is an accommodation facility for children with cancer who need to travel long distances for hospitalization or hospital visits, and their families. FY2024, employees of ONO PHARMA KOREA, together with their families, came up with Christmas gifts to help children fighting illness overcome their disease. Additionally, they presented the gifts to "Hanbit Love House" with letters, illustrations, and video messages created with their feelings in mind.

We actively cooperate with the blood donation activities of the Japanese Red Cross Society. In FY2024, blood donations were collected using a mobile blood donation unit at the Minase Research Institution, Fujiyama Plant, Yamaguchi Plant, and the Head office. At the Head Office, bone-marrow registration applications were also received. 

We sponsored a radio program called "The Moment of Change" in which we disseminate information about "today" and the "future" that we learn from cancer survivors from April 2020 to March 2025. We invited celebrated cancer survivors who are active in various areas and they talked about their feelings when they found out that they had cancer, their mindset when they faced cancer, the triggers that helped them be positive, and more.