Encouraging Younger Generations to Build the Future

The Nikon Group implements a range of activities aimed at identifying and cultivating the industrial, artistic, and cultural talent of the future.

People Participating in Nikon Group Initiatives for Identifying and Cultivating Human Talent 10,239 people
  • 4 Quality education
  • 9 Industry, innovation, infrastructure
The Nikon Photo Contest has been held every other year. “Radiance,” the photo shown here, was the Grand Prize winner of the photo competition in the 2020 - 2021 Contest.

Nikon Photo Contest

Nikon has sponsored the Nikon Photo Contest, an international photography contest, since 1969 to contribute to the development of photographic culture. Through a divisional structure that aligns with the trends of the times, the contest continues to provide opportunities for creators to share the message they wish to convey, regardless of age, nationality, experience, or manufacturer of photographic equipment.

Eriko Miyata's photo exhibition, disguise, was held at Nikon Salon from November 29, 2022 to December 12, 2022.

Nikon Salon

Nikon Imaging Japan operates the Nikon Salon, a photography exhibition space established in 1968 to popularize and strengthen photographic culture. The Nikon Salon is a venue for exhibiting outstanding works in all fields, breaking down barriers between professional and amateur photographers, independent of corporate strategies. The Jun Miki Award, founded in 1999, has been given to the most outstanding exhibition of work by an up-and-coming photographer at the Nikon Salon.

The Daum Junior Award photo contest selects one Grand Prize winner and nine Excellence Award winners. The Grand Prize winner also receives an additional prize from Nikon Imaging Korea.

Sponsorship of the Daum Junior Photo Festival

Since 2008, Nikon Imaging Korea Co., Ltd. has sponsored the annual Daum Junior Photo Festival, organized by the Parkgeonhi Foundation, supporting the festival to help develop the talents of young people interested in photography. The Daum Junior Photo Festival provides young people selected through a photo contest with an opportunity to participate in a camp to learn media literacy as artists, to present their work, and to plan group exhibitions on their own.

In addition to lectures at the endowed research lab, Nikon cooperates in lectures at the Consortium on Education and Research on Advanced Laser Science, a graduate education overseen by the University of Tokyo.

Nikon Optical and Precision Frontier Endowed Program

Nikon cooperates in the development of engineers who will lead the next generation of the optical industry through the Nikon Chair of Imaging Science at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science.

Panel Discussion for 35 High School Students (Left) Three Morf3D employees served as lecturers at UCI, while other employees (technicians) assisted students with their graduate studies online for 18 weeks.

Supporting High School Students Interested in Studying Engineering and Technology

Morf3D Inc., a U.S. additive manufacturing designer and production company, sponsors lectures on additive manufacturing for engineering students at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The company also provides research assistance to students who choose additive manufacturing as the topic of their graduate research. The company also sponsors panel discussions for high school students to learn about engineering career development.

We established the scholarship at a university in Savannakhet Province, as that is where Nikon Lao Co., Ltd. operates. The photo shows a Japanese conversation class at Savannakhet University.

Nikon-JICA Scholarship

Nikon and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have collaborated to administer the Nikon-JICA Scholarship at Savannakhet University since 2014. Nikon provides scholarships to 40 students each year and has supported a total of 320 students to date. To foster industrial human resources in Laos, in 2018, we began giving preference to students in the Japanese language department through scholarships and employment support for teaching assistants to address the shortage of educational personnel in the Japanese language department.

Pick UpEstablished scholarships for students of national colleges of technology

In fiscal year 2022, Nikon established a scholarship for students of national colleges of technology in cooperation with the National Institute of Technology, and began accepting applications for the first phase of scholarships in FY2023. With the hope of nurturing a growing number of next-generation individuals who will contribute to building our Vision 2030, a society where humans and machines co-create. Nikon will continue to support the development of science and engineering talent who will form the foundation of Japan's future industries.