Panasonic Newsroom Global publishes Feature Stories that amplify the real voices of people and key figures from our business, and share insight into our efforts in sustainability, products, solutions and sponsorship initiatives. The following are key quotes and numbers extracted from our Feature Stories published from April to June 2023 related to Panasonic’s impact on the world.
Says Yoichiro Masuda, NICOBO Project Leader at Panasonic Entertainment & Communication Co., Ltd. Strong robots like cleaning robots or autonomous vehicles perform tasks unaided, so users feel no sense of involvement, connectedness or skill improvement with such inventions. NICOBO is like a pet or a baby than a practical machine, but that’s where its value lies. Weak robots need people to accomplish a task. By being vulnerable, it can foster a sense of attachment in owners and promote their well-being by cultivating happiness.
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Number of food industry partners and course options offered by “foodable,” an industry-first subscription-based service by Panasonic in Japan that pairs kitchen appliance rentals with carefully selected foods to support better eating habits and promote well-being through food. Hiroyoshi Ohmiya of Panasonic’s Kitchen Space Division wanted to bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to the kitchen. He was joined by mobile internet services expert Tomoko Seki, whose, and partner company Kuriya Co., Ltd., a rice sommelier in Japan that helps foodable subscribers savor the intricacies of multiple flavors of rice.
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Says Yoshihiro Morii, Panasonic’s Executive Officer in charge of Brand Strategy and Communications during a dialogue with Mizuki Hashimoto, who oversees Shiseido’s luxury skincare and makeup brand, Clé de Peau Beauté. Both Panasonic and Shiseido brands have a long history of bringing products that offer high value to consumers in Japan and the world for more than a century, embracing Panasonic founder Konosuke Matsushita’s conviction that the brand is the foundation of a business and the source of its value, and some aspects of value are permanent and unchanging, but others must be updated as times change.
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Results of Panasonic’s ECO RELAY, a global CSR initiative for the environment. Community-based activities include ocean and river clean-ups and other conservation efforts. This year, leading up to Earth Day 2023 on April 22, several regional offices and companies took on ECO RELAY activities in their respective regions. “It was really a wonderful day where I got to meet many people who are new to me,” said one of the employees at Panasonic North America who participated in an event. “It definitely made me feel happy and proud to work at Panasonic.”
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Says Yukihiro Kaneko of Panasonic’s Technology Division. In collaboration with Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), the company has developed the world’s highest efficiency for a perovskite module of its size, at 17.9%. Panasonic aims to commercialize perovskite panels in the next five years in order to realize Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), where ordinary architectural glass could be combined with perovskite cells to generate energy. The perovskite technology for BIPV is part of Panasonic GREEN IMPACT, an initiative to reduce emissions across the Panasonic value chain and achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2030.
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