Menicon Co., Ltd. (Head Office: 21-19 Aoi 3, Naka-ku, Nagoya; Director, President and CEO: Koji Kawaura) celebrates its 75th anniversary in February 2026 and will implement various initiatives over the one-year period from February 8, 2026 to February 5, 2027.
75th Anniversary Logo and Key Visual
By designating February 8, 1951 as the Founding Day when our founder Kyoichi Tanaka successfully commercialized a corneal contact lens, Menicon now celebrates its 75th anniversary. We have cherished each quarter-century (25-year) milestone since our founding. In anticipation of our 100th year anniversary, we position this 75th year and next quarter century as a pivotal period in which we will create new possibilities and continue to challenge ourselves in this ever-changing global landscape.
Given the increase in the myopic population worldwide, we established the Menicon Malaysia Plant to reinforce our supply capacity and held an opening ceremony on February 5, 2026. This is a crucial new step to strengthen our global production system and provide superior visual correction to our customers around the world, thereby helping facilitate Menicon’s international growth.
Our 75th anniversary project theme is “Winds of Progress.” At Menicon we will create a new standard of ‘Miru (sharing enjoyment and joy through the five senses)’ and pass it on to our 100th anniversary. For our MTMP (medium-term management plan) ‘Vision2030’ we use the slogan “New Vision of ‘Miru’ to the world.” Through this anniversary project, we will continue to strive towards the future. Furthermore, refining our founding spirit of Creation, Originality, and Challenge to enhance our efforts to suppress the progression of myopia as a global issue.
Under our corporate slogan “Contributing to society by providing superior visual correction” that we have treasured since its establishment, Menicon will continue to focus on technological innovation, global development, sustainability and will continue to move toward our 100th anniversary while aiming to be a company that enriches the lives of all people.
■ The Winds of Progress
In Japanese, we often speak of the ‘wind’ as an invisible current that carries creativity, change, and challenge.
As we mark our 75th anniversary, Menicon sets a new wind in motion, one that begins with each individual and grows in strength.
Layer upon layer, the wind gathers momentum, carrying forward and renewing the spirit of Creation, Originality, and Challenge that has defined Menicon since its founding, and carries it toward new horizons around the world.
Looking ahead to our 100th year, driven by this rich and powerful Winds of Progress, Menicon will deliver a new vision of ‘Miru’ to the world.
■ Concept of the 75th Anniversary Logo
The three-arch motif symbolizes the “wind” while also abstracting the form of a contact lens and the cornea. It also expresses Menicon’s stance as a global company expanding its impact around the world. The logo uses three colors featured in the Menicon brand identity: Passion Red, symbolizing passion and innovation; Techno Green, representing safety and sustainability; and Black, conveying universality and trust.
Together, these colors create a logo which embodies the strength, flexibility, and stability needed to open a new era.
■ 75th Anniversary Special Website
[English website] https://www.menicon.com/75th-anniversary
This website systematically introduces the history and topics at each milestone since the founding of Menicon and shows our journey over 75 years and the challenges for the future beyond accumulated achievements.
In addition to the evolution of products and technologies, we show Menicon’s current status, including overseas development and the expansion of various businesses in a comprehensive, three-dimensional manner.
■The 75th Anniversary Video
The 75th Anniversary Video was created with the structure of “feeling” our history rather than “reading” it. Initially, we carefully communicated our beliefs at the time of founding and our thoughts from which we began our business. From the middle to the latter half, we emotionally express the present global expansion, starting from the preciseness rooted in Japanese manufacturing and the challenges for the future.
■ Message from Koji Kawaura, Director, President and CEO (excerpt)
Winds of Progress toward Our 100th Year — New Vision of “Miru” to the World
We are pleased to celebrate our 75th anniversary in February 2026.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our customers, people engaged in medical care, research, production, distribution, and local community members for their support that they have provided to us for many years.
The spirit of Creation, Originality, and Challenge is the origin of Menicon, through which our founder Kyoichi Tanaka created the first corneal contact lenses in Japan. With this spirit in mind, we will continue to deliver a new vision of “Miru” to the world while squarely tackling the global issue of the rising prevalence and earlier onset of myopia.
The 75th anniversary project theme is “Winds of Progress.” Leading the Winds of Progress that has been blowing since its founding toward our 100th year, Menicon will continue to contribute to society by providing superior visual correction.
<Company Profile>
Menicon Co., Ltd., based in Nagoya, Japan, is a global contact lens manufacturer committed to monozukuri - a tradition of craftsmanship that values precision, quality, and continuous improvement. Since introducing Japan’s first corneal contact lenses in 1951, Menicon has upheld its corporate slogan, “Contributing to society by providing superior visual correction.” The company continues to prioritize eye safety, advanced research and development, and innovative manufacturing technologies. Today, Menicon operates in more than 80 countries, offering a comprehensive portfolio that includes lens materials, specialty lens designs, care solutions, and long-term eye health programs such as the MELS Plan.
https://www.menicon.co.jp/company/