FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD. Sustainability Report 2018 · FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD. Sustainability...

FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD. Sustainability Report 2018

Currently, the world is facing various social issues encompassing environmentalproblems, such as climate change, environmental damage, poverty, conflicts, andfood crises. To tackle on them, many countries ratified the Paris Agreement aimingto realize a carbon-free society (effective since November 2016) and theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the slogan “no one left behind”(adopted by the United Nations (UN) in September 2015). As such, the entire worldis transforming at an unprecedented rate toward the same goal – solving the socialissues at hand.Based on such a backdrop, toward achieving various goals set forth by SDGs (e.g.health, infrastructure, community, climate change, biodiversity), we at FujitsuLaboratories conduct research and development (R&D) that contribute to realizingsustainable society in a broad range of fields, including advanced materials,computers, ICT systems as well as creation of next-generation solutions, servicesand business models.Additionally, taking the developed technologies further, we combine ICT, thedriving force of creating innovations, with great findings and ideas in the world,and our technologies and experience to create synergic effects through Digital Co-creation. That is our approach to solve the highly-diversified social issues we havein the world.

1. Greetings from the CEO


Fujitsu Group has a history of “making things in harmony with nature.” As a member ofthis group, Fujitsu Laboratories undertakes research and development that ranksenvironmental contributions as a priority item based on the FUJITSU Way – FujitsuGroup’s corporate philosophy – in which “contribute to society and protect the globalenvironment” is a key corporate value.

Kawasaki Laboratories (Head Office) Atsugi Laboratories

Shigeru SasakiCEO and Representative DirectorFUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.

http://www.fujitsu.com/jp/labs/en/about/environment/1/8


3. Green ICT Activities

2. Introduction to Fujitsu Laboratories Offices

■Kawasaki (Head Office)■ Location: 4-1-1 Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa■ Established: 1968■ No. of employees: about 940

■Atsugi■ Location: 10-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa■ Established: 1983■ No. of employees: about 260


■Environmentally Conscious R&D (Promotion of Advanced Green R&D)■ Fujitsu Group formulated the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage VIII), covering environmental

targets for FY 2016 to FY 2018. This action plan consists of two axes of “Our Society: Contributing to Society”and “Our Business: Fujitsu’s own business activities”.

■ Within “Our Society” Fujitsu Laboratories is promoting “advanced green R&D” with the aim of developinginnovative technology toward resolving environmental issues.

■ FY 2017 Performance and Results■ Positioning and highlighting Our Key Green Technologies

• In the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage VIII), we aim at enhancing dissemination ofdeveloped key green technology to outside the group. Accordingly, in FY2017, we appealed theenvironmental value of ICT through media releases, conference presentations, and exhibition presentations.

• In FY 2017, Fujitsu Laboratories announced a total of 25 technologies as shown below, covering “Ensurehealthy lives for all (Goal 3)”, “Building resilient infrastructure (Goal 9)”, “Make cities resilient andsustainable (Goal 11)”, “Combat climate change (Goal 13)”, and “Halt biodiversity loss (Goal 15)” from theviewpoint of SDGs. These technologies have contributed to solving a wide variety of social issues.

• Development Achievements (25 items)(1) April 4, 2017

Fujitsu to Host Fujitsu Forum 2017: fipick, a direct device-to-device communication technology http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0405-01.html

(2) April 17, 2017Fujitsu Releases Six New Enterprise PC and Tablet Models: world's first slide-style palm vein authentication functionhttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0417-01.html

(3) May 16, 2017Fujitsu and 1QBit Collaborate on Quantum Inspired AI Cloud Servicehttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0516-03.html

(4) May 16, 2017Fujitsu Launches AI-Powered Automated Chat Service for Call Centershttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0516-02.html

(5) May 29, 2017Fujitsu Develops High-Voltage Cathode Material for Lithium Iron Phosphate Rechargeable Batterieshttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0529-01.html

(6) June 5, 2017Fujitsu Develops Blockchain-based Software for a Secure Data Exchange Networkhttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0605-01.html


(7) June 9, 2017Technology to embed information into LED lights and receive information through smartphone camerashttp://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2017/06/9.html (Japanese edition)

(8) June 23, 2017Fujitsu Develops AI-Based Technology to Retrieve Similar Disease Cases in CT Inspectionshttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0623-01.html

(9) June 27, 2017Fujitsu Develops Virtual Machine Control Technology to Improve Server Density of Datacenter Rackshttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0627-01.html

(10) July 24, 2017Fujitsu Achieves World's Highest Output Density with Power Amplifier for W-Band GaN Transmittershttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0724-01.html

(11) July 31, 2017Fujitsu Speeds Up Transaction Processing on the Blockchainhttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0731-01.html

(12) August 28, 2017Fujitsu Deep Learning Technology Successfully Estimates Degree of Internal Damage to Bridge Infrastructurehttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0828-01.html

(13) August 30, 2017Fujitsu AI Ideally Matches Children to Daycare Centershttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0830-01.html

(14) September 19, 2017Fujitsu, NEDO and PETRA Develop World's Highest Transmission Density Optical Transceiver and High-Speed Energy Efficient Optical Modulator Technologyhttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0919-03.html

(15) September 19, 2017Fujitsu Partners with WIPO GREEN to Achieve SDGs: GaN-HEMT AC adapterhttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/0919-02.html

(16) October 11, 2017Fujitsu Laboratories Introduces AI Based Automatic Patch Generation Technologyhttp://www.fujitsu.com/us/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/fla-20171011-02.html

(17) November 1, 2017Technology to visualize and analyze municipal characteristics from environmental, social and economic aspects using open datahttp://www.fujitsu.com/jp/group/ssl/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1101.html (Japanese edition)

(18) November 1, 2017Fujitsu Field Trials Ship Performance Estimation Technology with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Ube Shipping & Logisticshttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1101-01.html

(19) November 7, 2017Fujitsu Launches Field Trial of Ultra High-Density Distributed Antenna Systems for 5Ghttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1107-01.html

(20) November 13, 2017Shimadzu, Fujitsu, and Fujitsu Laboratories Announce Results of Collaborative Research: On the Path to Utilize AI in the Processing of Mass Spectrometry Measurement Datahttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1113-01.html

(21) November 15, 2017Fujitsu Develops Security Technology to Safely Connect Blockchainshttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1115-01.html

(22) November 24, 2017Fujitsu in Joint Project Aiming for Tsunami Disaster Risk Reduction Using ICT in Kawasakihttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1124-01.html

(23) December 4, 2017Fujitsu Develops World's Smallest Sensor Device Supporting LPWA Communication, Eliminates Need for Battery Replacementhttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1204-02.html



(24) December 11, 2017Fujitsu Develops WAN Acceleration Technology Utilizing FPGA Acceleratorshttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2017/1211-01.html

(25) March 28, 2018Fujitsu Develops Cloud Operations Technology to Keep Customers' Mission Critical Processes Up and Runninghttp://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/resources/news/press-releases/2018/0328-02.html


■ Contributing to the UN General Assembly’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)• In FY 2017, Fujitsu Laboratories positioned and highlighted its environmental contribution from the SDGs

perspectives, “Ensure healthy lives for all (Goal 3)”, “Building resilient infrastructure (Goal 9)” and “Combatclimate change (Goal 13)”. Some examples are shown below.

• The case of Goal 3 (Ensure healthy lives for all)Fujitsu Develops AI-Based Technology to Retrieve Similar Disease Cases in CT Inspections (Announced June23, 2017)

Technology already exists to retrieve similar cases based on CT images for such diseases as early-stagelung cancer, in which abnormal shadows are concentrated in one place. For diffuse lung diseases likepneumonia, however, in which abnormal shadows are spread throughout the organ in all directions, ithas been necessary for doctors to reconfirm three-dimensional similarities, increasing the time neededto reach a conclusion.Now Fujitsu Laboratories has developed an AI-based technology that can accurately retrieve similarcases in which abnormal shadows have spread in three dimensions from a CT database of previouslytaken images. With this technology, abnormal shadow candidates are first recognized from CT imagesusing machine learning (Figure (a)). Next, by estimating the boundaries of the core and peripherybased on the relatively clear parts of the CT image in succession, the technology divides the lungs intocore and peripheral areas (Figure (b)). Lastly, following the axis of the body up and down, thetechnology creates histograms (Figure (c)) of the number of abnormal shadow candidates located in thecore and peripheral areas, then looks at the three-dimensional spread of abnormal shadows to retrievesimilar cases. This technology is expected to lead to increased efficiency in diagnostic tasks for doctors,and could reduce the time required to identify the correct diagnosis for cases in which identificationpreviously took a great deal of time.

Figure: Newly developed technology to retrieve similar cases


4. Environmental Activities

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* CO2 emissions factor by energy use amount: Ton -CO2/MWhFY 2012 - FY 2015: 0.570 → FY 2016: 0.534


• The case of Goal 9 (Build resilient infrastructure)Fujitsu Speeds Up Transaction Processing on the Blockchain (Announced July 31, 2017)

Blockchain is a technology that creates systems with excellent resistance to falsification while preservinghigh transparency and reliability, all without centralized management. It is expected to haveapplications in a variety of fields, particularly in finance.Now, Fujitsu Laboratories has developed two technologies (differential update state (DUS) functionalityand compound request (CR) functionality) to speed up transaction processing by making the processingof communications between applications and the blockchain platform, which had been the source ofbottlenecks, more efficient. In a trial where this technology was implemented in Hyperledger Fabricv0.6.1(*), it increased transaction performance by approximately 2.7 times compared to the previousmethod. With this technology, it has become possible to apply blockchain technology to onlinetransaction systems, which require high performance.* Hyperledger Fabric v0.6.1:Stable version of the Hyperledger Fabric framework as of July 5, 2017

■Countermeasures to Global Warming■ Reduction of energy use and CO2 emissions

Fujitsu Laboratories promotes energy-savingactivities at each location to reduce of energyuse and CO2 emissions.• Strategic facility investment

→ Introduction of energy-saving pumps→ Changing lights to LEDs

• Thorough elimination of wasteful electricityconsumption→ Turning all lights off during lunch breaks,

turning lights off on an individual basisZoned air conditioning by card reader

• Reduction of impact of outside air on indoorenvironment→ Updating to multi-layer energy-saving

windows• Cool Biz/Warm Biz campaigns

Figure: Example showing the reduced number of communications due to DUS functionality and CR functionality

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5. Social Contribution Activities

6. Biodiversity

41st Volunteer Clean-up (June 2017) 42nd Volunteer Clean-up (November 2017)


■Environmental Social Contributions■ Volunteer Clean-up (Atsugi Location)

Fujitsu Laboratories teams up with three neighboring firms twice a year in the spring and fall to clean up thearea surrounding its offices. As a result of activities over 20 years, the amount of rubbish collected has beenreducing each year. To contribute to beautifying the nature-rich area, Fujitsu Laboratories will continue theseactivities.

■Conservation of Biodiversity■ Preservation of endangered plants (Atsugi Location)

Threatened and near-threatened plants specified by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and prefecturalgovernments, such as golden orchids, Cphalanthera erecta and Calanthe discolor grow wild in the site. FujitsuLaboratories preserves biodiversity by conserving the locations where these plants grow wild by fencing anderecting information panels.

■ Establishment of biotopes (Atsugi Location)Fujitsu Laboratories has established biotopes on its site. At the biotopes, people can observe various forms oflife, such as fish, lotus flowers, water striders, dragonflies, and frogs. Many tadpoles grow into frogs and returnto the woods.

(Photographed in June 2018)

Calanthe discolorGolden Orchid Protected Area display

(Photographed in April 2018) (Photographed in April 2018)

(Photographed in June 2018)


7. Environmental Management System


Kawasaki Location■ 2000:Received ISO14001

certification

Atsugi Location■ 1998:Received ISO14001

certification

Kawasaki/Atsugi Location■ 2004:Received company-wide ISO14001 certification■ 2005:Received global integrated ISO14001 certification■ 2015:Updated global integrated ISO14001 certification

■Environmental Management SystemThe Fujitsu Group engages in environmental activities based on an environmental management system (EMS)conforming to the ISO4001 international standard.As a member of the Fujitsu Group, Fujitsu Laboratories operates an EMS at each of its Kawasaki and Atsugilocations and promotes activities toward the reduction of environmental burden.


8. Environmental Policy


FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.R&D Management Unit4-1-1 Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-kuKawasaki, Kanagawa 211/8588, JapanTEL: +81-44-754-2613

Head of Publication: Shigeru SasakiHead of Editing: Hiroshi UchiyaDate of Publication: October 2018Target Period of Report Content: April 2017 - March 2018Report URL: http://www.fujitsu.com/jp/labs/en/about/environment/

■Environmental Policy (Kawasaki)At its Kawasaki location, Fujitsu Laboratories promotes environmental activities on the basis of the KawasakiPlant Environmental Policy*.

* Please refer to the “Kawasaki Research and Manufacturing Facilities Sustainability Report” for details on theEnvironmental Policy.http://www.fujitsu.com/jp/about/resources/reports/sustainabilityreport/group/ (Japanese edition)

■Environmental Policy (Atsugi)As an independent site, Fujitsu Laboratories at Atsugi embodies the basic philosophy of “preserving the globalenvironment and contributing to the sustainable development of society” as set forth in the Fujitsu GroupEnvironmental Policy* and has established the following principles as a basis for conducting its activities as anR&D hub centered on ICT-related equipment, devices and materials.(1) Observe laws, regulations and agreements related to the environment and the Fujitsu Group Environmental

Policy.(2) Operate an environmental management system that conforms to ISO14001 and make ongoing

improvements in conjunction with changes in business activities to reduce environmental load and preventpollution.

(3) Develop innovative technology for the resolution of environmental issues.(4) Promote reductions in environmental load directly related to Fujitsu’s own business activities.

• Energy : Promote reduced use of energy through energy rationalization• Waste : Maintain zero waste emission and keep down the total volume of generated waste• Chemical materials : Intensify management of chemical materials and preventive measures against

pollution(5) Promote environmental social contributions and the conservation of biodiversity using regional

characteristics.(6) Specify clear environmental objectives, environmental targets, and action items to put these principles into

practice and periodically review them to promote good environmental management activities.(7) Ensure that this environmental policy is well known to all employees of Fujitsu Laboratories at Atsugi and is

released to the general public as well.

* Fujitsu Group Environmental Policy : http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/environment/approach/policy/

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