Domestic Activities

Students attending the class

The Nikon Chair of Optical Engineering was established at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo in November 2006. Its ultimate goal is to have an optical technology that directly links to industry, take root in the university and develop superior human resources to lead the future optical industry in Japan.
The Advanced Course of Optical Engineering for graduated students offers tuition in a wide range of subjects that are in demand by the optical industry, including geometric optics and aberration theory which are not so much focused on in a university education, lens design with practice work, the latest super resolution optical technologies and image-processing technologies. The Project Professor Hiroshi Ooki, General Manager of Research and Development Headquarters of Core Technology Center in Nikon, teaches students in the course. Moreover, Nikon's active lens designers instruct students in the practice of lens design.
In 2008 the Advanced Course of Optical Engineering was offered at Hongo Campus. Nikon also participated in Coral (Consortium on Education and Research on Advanced Laser Science) to conduct a short-term class and practice lens designing class at Hongo Campus. Two Photography Workshops were held as a special class at Komaba Research Campus with cooperation of Nikon Imaging Japan Inc. Both workshops were popular and attracted a larger number of applicants than student capacity.

Students attending the class

Nikon offers its sponsored course in intelligence and innovation strategy, which started in April 2009, at the Open Education Center of Waseda University. The aim of the course is to promote university-business alliance in the fields of intellectual property strategy and research and development strategy and provide our results to the public.
The course includes protection and exploitation of intellectual property resulting from research and development and necessary strategies to create innovations which will change the social and economic system considerably. The course also covers policy for science and technology, exploit of intellectual property, and new strategy for them.
With the course, Nikon expects that students will understand intellectual property strategy of domestic and overseas business and that future leaders of Japan's industry will be fostered.

Lesson on taking pictures with a digital camera

For three days from July 28 to 30, 2008, Nikon Corporation accepted some teachers as trainees at the company in cooperation with Nikon Imaging Japan and Nikon TEC. This training program is implemented by the Keizai Koho Center to give teachers the opportunity to learn about corporate ideas and activities and utilize what they have learned in educating children and school management. Nikon Corporation participated in the program for the first time and accepted a total of five teachers (two elementary school teachers and three junior high school teachers from the board of education of Kokubunji City) as trainees.
We provided the teachers with training that would be useful in their school activities, including a practical lesson on how to take pictures skillfully with a digital camera and a lecture on emergency measures in the event of a large-scale earthquake. Participating teachers commented, "I was able to think and act proactively in most of the training, which was great," and "I would like to use what I have learned through the training to help children develop into next-generation leaders, with self-confidence and pride in Japanese technologies."
Through these opportunities, we will continue to have close relations with local communities, while contributing to them through our technologies and know-how.