Activities of the Rohm Music Foundation and ROHM

ROHM engages in a variety of activities to support music culture with the aim of continuously contributing its spread and development together with "Rohm Music Foundation", a public interest incorporated foundation, was established in 1991 by the founder (Kenichiro Sato).
By FY2023, we have supported 540 scholarship students and regularly hold Scholarship Concerts where the scholarship recipients perform.
We also organize the Kyoto International Music Students Festival to promote international exchange and foster young musicians, the ROHM Music Seminar to foster professional musicians who are active in the world, and support performances and research related to music.

Photo: Tatsuo Sasaki

ROHM Theatre Kyoto as the Production Base for the Education Project "Seiji Ozawa Music Academy"

We support the “Seiji Ozawa Music Academy”, a project by world-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa to nurture young musicians. This is an unparalleled program in which young Asian musicians selected in auditions perform with top singers under the guidance of world-renowned musicians.Since 2015, we have also been presenting "Opera for Children" in the hope that children will experience the wonder of music and develop an interest in it. More than 18,000 elementary school students in Kyoto have been invited to attend performances at the Rohm Theatre Kyoto.

Photo: Michiharu Okubo、Masatoshi Uenaka

An Event Overflowing with Music "ROHM Music Festival"

In 2016, we started the "ROHM Music Festival", held at ROHM Theatre Kyoto.
In the festival, performances are held by members of the "Rohm Music Friends", who were supported by ROHM and the Rohm Music Foundation as the musician support activities and are currently active as professionals at home and abroad (4,914 persons as of March 2024), and by junior and senior high school students from Kansai area. During the festival, the whole area is filled with music and the festival is enjoyed by many people.

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

Collaboration for "SS Challenge" at Ritsumeikan High School

ROHM has been offering workshop classes to Ritsumeikan High School since FY2020.
ROHM agrees with the school's main goals of "making students aware of the appeal of science and technology" and "providing opportunities for students to think and learn on their own”, and has participated in the SS Challenge project, in which research institutes, universities, and companies conduct classes as part of their career education.
The theme of the class was "Let's change society with semiconductor technology!". In order for the students to learn more about ROHM's technology, engineers gave a lecture on sensor technology, one of ROHM's technologies, and introduced it through video demonstrations.
In the workshop after that, each group considered ideas to solve problems using various sensors with the theme of Let’s think about solving social issues using sensors!
Through these educational support activities, we will meet the expectations of educational institutions, create the next generation of human resources, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.

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.