As a life sciences company, in addition to our business activities, the Tanabe Pharma Group is engaged in a wide range of medical and welfare-related initiatives that seek to achieve a vigorous life for patients, their families, and others.
The Company subsidizes medical training that is independently planned and operated by medical societies and associations, to help improve the quality of medical care offered in Japan through better literacy in patients and healthcare professionals, and in 2021, the Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Medical Educational Subsidy was established. In fiscal 2025 we provided a total of 4.47 million yen for two projects to support education initiatives regarding ailments of the central nervous system.
For further information about the supported projects and eligible organizations, please refer to the Tanabe Pharma Medical Educational Subsidy website. (https://www.tanabe-pharma.com/ja/sustainability/educational_subsidy.html) (Japanese language only)
The Company believes in the importance of developing new drugs for intractable diseases and providing support for patients with diseases and their families. Accordingly, in 2012, we established the Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma (now: Tanabe Pharma) Tenohira Partner Program. This program provides aid for the activities of organizations and support groups for patients with intractable diseases. These organizations work to improve patients’ medical treatment, education, and career prospects and to enhance their quality of life. In fiscal 2025, 13 organizations were selected for assistance.
Additionally, in fall every year we receive a report from each organization we provided assistance to in the previous fiscal year, detailing their activities, and take the opportunity for the exchange of opinions and other information. In fiscal 2025, we held the event over two days, September 24 (Osaka) and October 6 (Tokyo), with reports from 12 patient groups (one of which participated online), utilizing a hybrid format that allowed employees who wished to attend to do so online.
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- Meeting to report on support operations
For details about grant recipients and other information, please see the page “Support activities for patient groups with intractable diseases.” (Japanese language only)
Tanabe Pharma Korea (TPKR) employees participated as volunteers in a commemorative event held every year by the Korean ALS Association to support patients and raise awareness of Lou Gehrig’s disease. This event is intended to promote understanding and raise awareness of ALS and is held with the participation of ALS patients and their families, volunteers, and the general public.
TPKR employees helped as volunteer staff, assisting patients in wheelchairs for whom mobility was difficult, and participating in a march at Cheonggyecheon Plaza to raise awareness of ALS—a rare disease—among the general public. All employees also participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge in an effort to better understand and empathize with ALS patients.
The Company will continue to participate in this event, contributing to raising awareness and promoting understanding regarding ALS patients and their families.
Note: Called “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” after the American professional baseball player Lou Gehrig, who suffered from it. The medical name for this disease is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
An ALS patient watches the commemorative event
TPKR employees participate in the Ice Bucket Challenge
According to the Japanese Red Cross Society, approximately 14,000 people need to donate blood each day in order to secure the necessary amount because blood cannot be artificially produced or stored for long periods of time. Blood is essential to support the treatment of patients who require blood transfusions.
The Group cooperates actively with the Japanese Red Cross in blood donation activities at each site, including our head offices. Outside Japan, employees at Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Indonesia’s Bandung Plant* and Taiwan Tanabe Seiyaku voluntarily participate in blood donation activities.
In fiscal 2025, 559 employees donated blood in Japan and overseas.
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Indonesia changed its name to Tanabe Pharma Indonesia in October 2026.
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Indonesia*
(Bandung Plant)
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- Taiwan Tanabe Seiyaku
(Hsinchu Industrial Park)
On the third Thursday of every month, we hold direct sales of freshly baked bread and confectionary made at welfare facilities catering to people with disabilities at our headquarters. Each carefully made, these baked goods are a favorite of our employees and sell out every time. The welfare facilities appreciate these sales as an opportunity to receive feedback from their customers directly. We will continue to support their efforts by purchasing from them.
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- Sales of freshly baked bread and confectionary
TFT is a social contribution activity that originated in Japan. It is aimed at simultaneously resolving the problems of hunger in developing countries and the problems of obesity and lifestyle-related diseases in industrially developed countries. At the employee cafeterias, when employees eat low-calorie meals that help prevent obesity, through TABLE FOR TWO International, 20 yen of the price is allocated to the cost of school meals in developing countries, such as countries in Africa and Asia. Twenty yen is the amount of money needed to provide one meal in a developing country.
In 2014, we introduced the TFT Program at the employee cafeteria at the headquarters office. Also, at offices, we have installed TFT vending machines, and a portion of the sales of drinks purchased from these machines is used to provide meals for children in developing countries. Employees have given high evaluations to this initiative, in which they can readily participate, and which enables children in developing countries and employees to improve their health at the same time. In fiscal 2025, 46,681 yen was donated, and the cumulative total donated since the start of the activity reached 1,640,000 yen.
The school meals that are provided through donations are expected not only to help solve hunger among children but also to increase school attendance rates and grades, lead to gains in the children’s fundamental strength, and help prevent disease. In this way, these meals are playing an important role in helping to eliminate poverty. Moving forward, we will continue this initiative to help solve hunger and poverty among children in developing countries.
Fiscal 2025 meals contributed through participation in the TABLE FOR TWO program (Converted at 20 yen per meal)
|
Contributions from the TFT menu |
Contributions from TFT vending machines |
Total |
|
35,020 yen (1,751 meals) |
36,560 yen (1,828 meals) |
71,580 yen (3,579 meals) |
Participating in Onigiri Action 2025
Onigiri Action is a campaign of social contribution held every year on October 16 in conjunction with World Food Day. Themed around the concept of changing the world with Japanese cuisine, this campaign seeks to provide hot lunches to children in Africa and Asia through onigiri (rice balls), a typical Japanese food. Under the Onigiri Action system, five hot meals are distributed to children in these areas for every post of an onigiri photo on social media and other dedicated websites.
On October 22, 2025, the Group held Onigiri Action events at four locations simultaneously: company headquarters and our Yokohama, Yoshitomi, and Onoda offices. With the cooperation of the cafeterias at each location in this campaign, we provided onigiri containing slightly different ingredients to those normally used and special lunches for the event. Each office came up with its own creative ideas, such as preparing cute onigiri-themed point-of-purchase items for commemorative photos. Many employees participated by taking pictures of onigiri and posting them to social media and the dedicated Onigiri Action website.
This event gave each employee a personal perspective on global food and health issues, and provided an opportunity to start from small acts of support.
Onigiri Action（https://onigiri-action.com/en/）
The Group has been participating in vaccine support activities for children in developing countries since 2014. Through this program, unneeded books, CDs, and DVDs are donated, and the proceeds from their sale are donated to Authorized NPO Japan Committee Vaccines for the World’s Children.
Through this international contribution activity, those donations are used to deliver vaccines to children in developing countries, such as vaccines for six major infectious diseases. The price of a polio vaccine is only 20 yen per person. One book that is sitting on a shelf can protect two children from polio.
In fiscal 2025, a total of 144,042 yen, equivalent to polio vaccines for 7,202 children, was raised from employee donations and matching gifts from the Company. Since the start of these activities, total donations were about 3.13 million yen, equivalent to about 156,500 polio vaccines.
As part of our support for access to healthcare, we will continue these activities as we aim for a future in which children in developing countries live healthy and happy lives.
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- In-house posters and scenes from participating offices
Fiscal 2025 contributions resulting from participation in vaccine support activities for children in developing countries
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Amount of contributions |
Polio vaccine (estimate) |
|
|
Employees |
72,021 yen |
3,601 doses |
|
Company matching |
72,021 yen |
3,601 doses |
|
Total |
144,042 yen |
7,202 doses |