Nikon Healthcare Microscope Business Unit Marks 100th Anniversary
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
MELVILLE, N.Y., July 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Nikon Instruments celebrates the 100th anniversary of its Nikon Healthcare Business Unit marked by the launch of the JOICO microscope in 1925, a milestone product that laid the foundation for Nikon's microscope business. Nikon's microscopes employ optical technology to reveal the microscopic world, and are widely used in advanced research and industrial inspection across scientific, medical, and industrial fields. With the goal of improving people's quality of life, Nikon will continue to pursue even further advancement in its healthcare business over the next 100 years.
On this centennial milestone in its microscope business, Nikon established a logo and key message encapsulating its aspirations and vision for the next 100 years. Today, July 1, 2025, Nikon is unveiling the key visual and statement to celebrate the anniversary alongside the launch of a special 100th Anniversary Microscope Business webpage.
Nikon's Aspirations and Determination Reflected in the 100(th) Anniversary Visual and Statement
Over the past 100 years, Nikon has harnessed optical technology to advance its microscopes in response to innovations in science, what scientists strive to discover and observe, and to advance human knowledge. That desire for understanding has been the very origin of our endeavors and the driving force behind our evolution. By visualizing life phenomena occurring in the microscopic world -- phenomena that cannot be captured by the naked eye -- we have continuously contributed to the progress of science and medicine.
Today, Nikon microscopes are widely employed across diverse fields throughout the world. In research environments at companies and educational institutions, they facilitate new discoveries in medical and environmental investigative settings and enable more precise inspections and analyses, thereby supporting people's health and enriching their lives.
Our aim is to make the unseen visible so that the unknown becomes known. With this purpose, we continue to take on the challenge of using optical technology to bring the invisible world to light. We believe this challenge will lead to a healthier and brighter future for people around the globe, and we will persist in taking on new challenges to better understand the microscopic world.
We have infused these sentiments and our commitment to the future in the logo, key message, statement, and key visual for this occasion.
Nikon Microscope 100th Anniversary Webpage:
Details of our 100th anniversary initiatives can be found on the special webpage.
100(th) Anniversary Webpage URL: https://www.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com/joico-100th
Upcoming Activities
This year, to commemorate the Nikon Healthcare Microscope Business's 100th anniversary, we will be holding a variety of activities worldwide, including exhibition events and seminars. Further details will be announced on the special webpage and on social media as they become available.
Location Period Title
Overview
California Science Center May 1, 2023 to Nikon Small World Exhibition of Nikon Small World
June and
30, 2027 Museum Exhibition Small World in Motion Annual
Award-
(Los Angeles, California) Winning Collection
ARTIS-Micropia Museum March 15, 2025 to Magnified Exhibition of microscopes and
Nikon
January 30, 2026 Small World Award-winning works
(Amsterdam, the
Netherlands)
Nikon Solutions Co., Ltd. From April 1, 2025 JOICO 100th
Anniversary Exhibition of NIKON JOICO AWARD-
Tokyo Showroom - NIKON JOICO AWARD winning works, and message board
Exhibition posted on the 100th Anniversary
of
(Tokyo, Japan) Microscope Business panel
Seoul Science Center April 19, 2025 to Nikon Small World Exhibition of Nikon Small World
May 2024
3, 2026 Exhibition Award-winning works
(Seoul, South Korea)
Webinar + Nikon Friday, July 4, Special Program for
2025 the NIKON JOICO AWARD Series Webinar
Solutions Co., Ltd. Tokyo JOICO 100th
Anniversary - Dr. Masatsugu Toyoda (Saitama
Showroom - "Where Are the University)
Awardees Now?"
(Tokyo, Japan)
Nikon Global Thursday, July 10, Commemorative Lecture
Keynote Lectures
Headquarters Atrium 2025 for the JOICO 100th
Anniversary Shigeo Okabe M.D., Ph.D.
(University
(Tokyo, Japan) of Tokyo)
Nobutaka Hattori M.D., Ph.D.
(Juntendo University)
Nikon Global Tuesday, July 29, JOICO 100th
Anniversary Hands-on Microscope Event for
Headquarters 2025 Event: "Explore the Children
Microscopic World!"
(Tokyo, Japan)
Nikon Solutions Co., Ltd. Friday, August 1, NIKON JOICO AWARD - Awarding microscope images of
Tokyo Showroom 2025 Children's Invitation various samples for their
scientific and
Event artistic value.
(Tokyo, Japan)
Webinar Friday, August 22, Special Program for
the NIKON JOICO AWARD Series Webinar
2025 JOICO 100th
Anniversary - Tomoe Ishikawa Ph.D.
- "Where Are the (Massachusetts Institute of
Awardees Now?" Technology)
Webinar Wednesday, October Special Program for
the NIKON JOICO AWARD Series Webinar
8, 2025 JOICO 100th
Anniversary - Tetsuo Hasegawa M.D., Ph.D.
- "Where Are the (University of Cambridge)
Awardees Now?"
Webinar Friday, December Special Program for
12, the NIKON JOICO AWARD Series Webinar
2025 JOICO 100th - Aiko Sada Ph.D. (Kyushu
Anniversary University)
- "Where Are the
Awardees Now?"
This year the Nikon Healthcare Business Unit marks its 100th anniversary since the launch of the JOICO microscope in 1925. Throughout this century of microscope development, we have leveraged our optical and image-analysis technologies to continually pursue the creation of new value in life sciences and medical fields.
In recent years, our advanced imaging technologies, built on our expertise in cell observation, have supported cutting-edge research and development, drug discovery support, pathological diagnostics, and in vitro fertilization. We are also taking on new challenges, such as developing AI-powered diagnostic support systems, and offering contract cell manufacturing solutions aimed at realizing novel therapies for intractable diseases.
As we reach this significant centennial milestone, we will continue to build on our accumulated technologies and experience, proactively adopt new innovations, and deliver groundbreaking solutions in both hardware and software. Through these efforts, we remain committed to advancing science and medicine. Looking forward to the next 100 years, we will pursue evolution and challenge to continue contributing to enhancing people's quality of life around the world.
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