Activities of the Rohm Music Foundation and ROHM

ROHM has been engaged in a variety of activities to support music culture with the aim of contributing to the promotion and development of music culture in collaboration with Rohm Music Foundation, a public interest incorporated foundation, which was established in 1991 with the company's founder, Kenichiro Sato. We place particular emphasis on nurturing young musicians, and by FY2024, we have supported 557 scholarship students and held Scholarship Concerts featuring performances by the scholarship recipients.

ROHM also organizes the Kyoto International Music Students Festival, which aims to promote international exchange and foster young musicians, and the ROHM Music Seminar, which the purpose of fostering musicians who will be active on the world stage. ROHM also provides grants for music-related performances and research.

Photo: Tatsuo Sasaki

An Event Overflowing with Music "ROHM Music Festival"

In 2016, we started the ROHM Music Festival, a music festival held exclusively at ROHM Theatre Kyoto. This festival features performances by the members of ROHM Music Friends musicians who are currently active in Japan and overseas thanks to ROHM and the ROHM Music Foundation's musician support program (5,040 members as of April 2025), as well as performances by high school students from the Kansai region of Japan. During the festival, music fills the entire area, bringing enjoyment to many people.

Global Educational Project with Kazuki Yamada, Japan's Leading Conductor

Together with Kazuki Yamada, one of ROHM Music Friends and a conductor with positions around the world, we are running the RMF & Kazuki Yamada Global Project, which aims to create a future in which Japanese musicians can play an even more active role on the world stage. We select Japanese musicians to be guest members or assistant conductors for overseas orchestras conducted by Kazuki Yamada, providing them with a rare opportunity to gain practical experience overseas.

Japan Super Science Fair

The Japan Super Science Fair (JSSF) is an initiative sponsored by Ritsumeikan High School, where science high school students from every country in the world interact on the subject of science in Kyoto, and ROHM has participated continuously since 2013.

The purpose of this class is to allow students to experience the joy of manufacturing by working together as a team while overcoming language barriers.

ROHM employees visited Ritsumeikan High School to give a "Science Talk" lecture. After explaining the functions of electronic components and circuits to the students, they created an electronic circuit on paper using a conductive ink pen (Circuit Marker) and conducted an experiment to light up a chip LED, one of ROHM's own products. Then, as an advanced part of the program, group work was conducted to design electronic circuits freely, and poster presentations, voting, and awards were held for each group's work.

From here on, through these kinds of activities, ROHM will continue to support those students aiming to become the next generation's engineers.

JSSF held in FY2023

Monozukuri (manufacturing) Lessons for Elementary School Students in Kyoto City

At ROHM, we endorse the initiative of the Kyoto City Board of Education, and in order to increase children's interest in Monozukuri and provide them with an opportunity to think about their path to the future and their dreams, from the 2010FY we are holding a display of a booth using our company products and providing Monozukuri lessons at the "Kyoto Manabi-no Machi Ikikata Tankyu Museum".

In the lesson, through the creation of a circuit combining a resistor, which has been a product manufactured by ROHM ever since its establishment, and LEDs that shine in three colors, we were able to make the students think about the three primary colors and the energy saving result of the LEDs, as well as the enjoyment of Monozukuri and their own futures.

The children listened attentively to the teachers who had come from our company, with comment such as "That's how a circuit works", "All the different colors shining are beautiful", and they were absorbed in the LED circuits they themselves had created.

From here on, in order to provide an opportunity for many children to experience the enjoyment of Monozukuri and have them imagine their future jobs, we will continue to carry out Monozukuri lessons.

Events in the Biotope Area

Since FY2021, ROHM has been conducting biological surveys in cooperation with outside experts to obtain information on the habitat and growth of living organisms on the ROHM Head Office grounds for the purpose of conservation and restoration.

In addition, we hold guided tours of living creatures for our employees, where they can walk around with expert guides and experience the plants and animals that live on our grounds, with the aim of reminding our employees of the importance of biodiversity. This event has also been held for elementary school students in the neighborhood since FY2023 as part of a cooperative program with Kyoto City regarding coexistence with nature. The biotope area is regularly opened to employees and their families, as well as to nearby elementary and nursery schools, in order to provide an opportunity for children to become familiar with nature at an early age and learn the importance of environmental conservation. In June, employees and their families plant potato seedlings and rice in the biotope area, and in October, they harvest the planted potatoes and rice.

Food Drive Activities

ROHM conducts in-house food drives.

A food drive is an activity in which surplus food is collected from each household and donated to specialized organizations or local welfare facilities to be delivered to children, single-parent families, and needy households in need of food support.

Employees bring food items such as rice, retort pouch foods, canned foods, and snacks, and the collected food items are donated to the Food Bank, a specified nonprofit corporation, for delivery to those in need.