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One of the recipients of the donations under our “Social Contribution Points Program” is International MedicalSociety▎ Corporate Citizenship Activities
Corporate Citizenship Activities

Sysmex contributes to the creation of a healthy society and the establishment of a vibrant community by practicing

the Sysmex Way and engaging in activities based on its “Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities and Philanthropy”.

Volunteers Japan Heart, an incorporated nonprofit organization. In support of their “SmileSmilePROJECT,” ouremployees provide assistance to pediatric cancer patients and their families through volunteer activities. In fiscal 2022,
our employees voluntarily participated in several events, such as an invitation event at KidZania Koshien and a coffee
seminar for children and parents. Our volunteers accompanied the children and their families and took photographs forthem.
The employees of each business office planned corporate citizenship activities, which included donating used goods
and clothes to NPOs.

▶ Corporate Philosophy▶ Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities and Philanthropy

Our Group-wide Contributions to Healthcare
Based on our “Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities and Philanthropy”, Sysmex actively engages in corporate

citizenship activities that lead to the creation of a prosperous, healthy society and vibrant communities, and promotes
corporate citizenship activities undertaken by employees independently. In fiscal 2022, we offered our Group-wide
program, the Sysmex Gives Back Campaign, twice, from June to September and from October to January. As part ofthese programs, in addition to blood donations and environmental activities, we also conducted corporate citizenshipactivities related to health and medical care, development of the next generation, disaster aid, and the like. A total ofmore than 7,000 employees worldwide participated in our corporate citizenship activities through these programs. We

SmileSmilePROJECT(Invitation event at KidZania Koshien in Japan)

Coffee seminar for children and parents (Japan)

will continue our Groupwide efforts to promote a healthy and fulfilling society.

Our Contributions to Healthcare through Blood Donation Campaigns
Sysmex Corporation registered as a “Blood Donation Supporter Company” in fiscal 2014 and has

actively led blood donation campaigns since.

Visiting Lectures in Collaboration with the Kobe City Board of Education
As part of its contribution to the local community, Sysmex Corporation has been working to expand local school
education. Since fiscal 2022, it has delivered visiting lectures to elementary school students in collaboration with theKobe City Board of Education, with the aim of promoting health education.

We also conduct regular blood donation campaigns in other parts of the world, and about 600
employees throughout the Group donated blood during fiscal 2022.

Sysmex has created original content that provides opportunities for students to become interested in the human bodyand think about the importance of health through learning about the functions of blood. We have also delivered lectures
together with our employees who have registered for the voluntary Partnership System. In fiscal 2022, we visited 17Social Contribution Point Program

elementary schools in Kobe and presented lectures to a total of 1,176 students.

Sysmex has declared its support for employee volunteer activities in our “Policy on Corporate Citizenship Activities

and Philanthropy” and established a volunteer leave system. It has also introduced a program to encourage employees

By leveraging our characteristics of carrying out business in the healthcare field, we will continuously contribute to therealization of a vibrant local community through the education of children who will lead the next generation.

to participate in volunteer activities on their own initiative.

Under this program, employees earn points for social contribution activities in local communities, as well as social
contribution events sponsored by the company, and we make donations based on the number of points accumulated. In
fiscal 2022, around 965 employees of Japanese Group companies (24.4% of the total) participated in this program.

Visiting lectures (Japan)

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GovernanceContributing to Biodiversity Preservation through the “Sysmex Forest”

As part of the “Enlist the Participation of All Citizens in Creating Woodland” project promoted by the Hyogo Prefectural

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Activity
・Providing support for costs of medical treatment for patients requiring

Government, Sysmex Corporation took responsibility for a two-hectare portion of the 17-hectare Kawai Kaiteki Forest

near our reagent factory in the city of Ono, Hyogo Prefecture. We dubbed this portion the “Sysmex Forest” and aim toSocietyHealthcaremake it a place of tranquility for people and wildlife, through employee volunteer activities including tree thinning.
※ In this report, “Sysmex” refers to the Sysmex Group as a whole. “Sysmex Corporation” refers to the Company on a stand-alone basis.

treatment and economically challenged patients through sports
charity events
・Supporting diabetes patients through charity events・Making donations to projects supporting medical care of cancer patients

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Thailand, New Zealand,
United Arab Emirates, andMalaysia

・Participating in “Onigiri Action,” a food support activity for needy children
・Providing support for school meals for indigenous children
・Donating personal computers to villages in Sri Lanka

Welfareto foster
the next
eneration

・Donating to an association that supports teenage girls

・Spending time with children in an orphanage and providing dinners

and movies
・Holding an event to provide dinner to orphans and single mothers
・Donating daily living necessities and food to orphanages
・Donating of books
・Manufacturing bicycles for children
・Donating to children’s hospices

Japan, Ghana, Turkey,
Malaysia, Thailand, andNew Zealand・Donating to support organizations for homeless people
・Donating to day care centers

・Donating furniture to refugee facilities

・Donating goods and items to facilities for low-income workers

Sysmex Forest (forest maintenance activities in Japan)

・Holding charity events to support the independence of homelessWelfare

Corporate Citizenship Activities in Other Countries
ThemeActivity

Country/Region・Supporting cancer centers and pediatric cancer research throughcharity events

・Donating prosthetic hands for patients・Blood donation activities

・Making donations to blood donation institutions
・Providing COVID-19 vaccines to communities
・Making donations to medical school funds

・Providing massages in cooperation with a visually impaired people’s

Japan, the United States,
Germany, Poland,
Switzerland, Austria,
Turkey, Ghana, Taiwan,
South Korea, Australia,
India, and Indonesia

Disasterrecoveryassistanceassociation

Healthcare

・Holding and participating in events to support breast cancer patients

・Installing vending machines on Company premises to enable

donations to be made for malaria elimination, and promoting their use
among employees

・Donating virus transportation media (VTM) and thermometers tohospitals

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・Making donations to activities to support recovery from the Turkey-Syria earthquake

・Making donations to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without

・Tree planting

・Neighborhood cleaning activities
・Activities to reduce food lossJapan

The United States,
Germany, Belgium,
Netherlands, New
Zealand, France, andRepublic of South AfricaJapanTheenvironment

・Promoting environmentally friendly means of transportation
・Participating in events to interact with living things

・Reducing the use of plastics by distributing reusable stainless steel

bottles・Environmental conservation activities
・Providing support and making donations to environmental
conservation organizations
Localcommunities

Japan, the United States,and Europe

Borders) in Ukraine

・Recycling activities

・Collecting used clothes and old post cards and exchanging them formoney, which is donated to developing countries to cover the cost of
vaccinations
・Collecting goods and exchanging them for money, which is donatedfor community medicine (use-first pay-later drug) businesses in Africa

women and children
・Participating in volunteer activities to provide free meals
・Constructing houses for people in need by raising donations
・Donating daily necessities to retired military personnel
・Donating goods and items to Ronald McDonald House, where familiesof hospitalized persons live
・Conducting education to eradicate sexual discrimination inworkplaces

Countries around theworld including Japan,
the United States,
Germany, France, Brazil,
Mexico, Chile, Colombia,
India, and the United
Arab Emirates

・Supporting the safety of communities by participating in police events

Taiwan60Countries around theworld including Japan,
the United States,
Germany, Spain,
Portugal, Switzerland,
Malaysia, Turkey, Slovak,
Australia, Austria, theRepublic of South Africa,
Burkina Faso, the United
Arab Emirates, China,
Ghana, and the Czech
Republic
Malaysia

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Participating in charity events to support cancer research (theUnited States)

Participating in charity events to support patients (Thailand)

Donating prosthetic hands (Australia)

Making donations to children in orphanages (Ghana)

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Charity events to raise awareness of breast cancer (South Africa)

Expenditures for corporate citizenship activities

Unit: billion yen

Fiscal 2020

Fiscal 2021

3.03 ѲѲѲѲѲ

Fiscal 2022

7.8 ѲѲѲѲѲ 2.89

Scope: Sysmex Corporation

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Environmental Management

63

Resource circulation in Product Life Cycle

69

Reduction in Environmental Burden through Business Activities

7462