KIOXIA’s Yokkaichi Plant emphasizes community engagement, considering that it is important to be loved by the local community.

Since 1997, Yokkaichi Plant has been conducting blood donation campaigns seven times a year on its premises in cooperation with the Red Cross Mie Blood Center. To date, a total of more than 7,100 people have denoted blood.

At the 2013 Mie Blood Donor Awards Ceremony, Yokkaichi Plant received a certificate of appreciation from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in recognition of its long-standing contribution.

Yokkaichi Plant organizes a summer festival to provide an opportunity for personal exchanges among its employees, their families, and local people.

During the festival, visitors enjoy the snack stands set up by our employees, shishimai (Japanese lion dance) presented by Yamanoisshiki-cho’s residents’ association, a music show featuring professional entertainers, a lottery, etc.

In 2018, the summer festival was held at the Yamanoisshiki-cho Sports Park on August 31. The festival was very lively with 11,000 visitors, including local residents, our employees, and their families.

On August 3, 2018, Yokkaichi Plant participated in the Yokkaichi Science Seminar for Children.

Since 2012, this science seminar has been sponsored by the Yokkaichi Board of Education to nurture children’s intellectual curiosity and interest in science, the environment, and the universe and to foster scientific minds and creativity.

Enterprises and other organizations based in Yokkaichi offered classes in monozukuri—the art, science and craft of making things—and science experiments. We let the children experience the nanoscale world using an electron microscope since nanofabrication is our specialty.

As part of measures to cope with the increasing indifference of children toward science studies, Yokkaichi Plant organizes field trips and special classes for elementary and junior high school students at the request of the Yokkaichi Board of Education.

In October 2018, we taught a class at a nearby junior high school, presenting Yokkaichi Plant as well as its products and environmental programs. We also let the students to observe the structure of a semiconductor device using hand lenses.

In addition, they watched a video about semiconductor manufacturing processes and tried on cleanroom suits.