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Panasonic Headquarters & offices · Kadoma, Japan
Panasonic · Kadoma, Japan
On the Kadoma site where it has been based since 1933, Panasonic now runs an eight-storey lab built around a four-storey atrium of plants, mist and 40 channels of nature sound.
The new Technology CUBE, a faithful copy of the 1933 head office, the benefits in Japan and every head-office move since a rented two-storey house in Osaka — then the business. Every number from Panasonic's own website, newsroom, human-capital data and Annual Securities Report, plus the architect's project page.
- 42,094 m²Technology CUBE floor area (≈ 453,100 sq ft), completed 2025
- ≈ 1,400Technology Division staff brought together from three sites
- 25 daysannual paid leave granted in Japan; 21.4 taken on average, FY2026
- 89%of men in Japan took childcare leave, FY2026
Sources: Panasonic HD news release, Mar 9, 2026 · Technology Division highlight, Sep 15, 2026 · Panasonic Group human capital management data (2026)
Companies / Japan / Electronics / Panasonic
THE NEWEST BUILDING ON THE HEAD-OFFICE SITE · TECHNOLOGY CUBE · 2025
An eight-storey lab built so any office can become a lab
Technology CUBE, at the head-office address 1006 Kadoma, is the first R&D hub newly built there in about 30 years. Research sits on the 8th floor, development in the middle and production engineering below; a 900 mm grid and a steel grid ceiling let any office be turned into a lab. On the 5th floor, the “Nature Square” atrium rises four storeys: plants are misted with water and wind, 40 channels of sound play nature through the space, and the skylight changes colour temperature with the time of day. The 5th and 8th floors are co-creation floors open to universities, start-ups and partners, and every floor has a kitchen area, with self-build kitchens on the 6th and 7th floors. Tables and benches are made from thinned wood and factory scraps.
- 42,094 m² (≈ 453,100 sq ft), 8 floors
- 4-storey “Nature Square” atrium
- WELL Platinum (5th & 8th floors)
- CASBEE S
- Design: Takenaka Corporation
- Nikkei New Office Award 2026
The Nature Square atrium
On the 5th floor a four-storey atrium is misted with water and wind, plays nature sounds through 40 channels, and its skylight changes colour temperature with the time of day.
Floors that can become labs
A 900 mm grid and a steel grid ceiling let any office be turned into a lab; research sits on the 8th floor, development in the middle and production engineering below.
The building
Takenaka Corporation designed and built the 42,094 m² Technology CUBE on the head-office site at 1006 Kadoma.
Facts: Panasonic HD news release (Mar 9, 2026) · Panasonic Design story “Technology CUBE” · Technology Division highlight (Sep 15, 2026) · Takenaka Corporation project page “Technology CUBE”.
The Kadoma site: head office, new lab and museum
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Head office (Panasonic Holdings) | 1006 Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8501, Japan |
| Technology CUBE (R&D hub, 2025) | 1006-1 Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka, Japan |
| Panasonic Museum (incl. Konosuke Matsushita Museum) | 1006 Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8501, Japan |
Source: Panasonic HD corporate profile · news release, Mar 9, 2026 · Takenaka Corporation project page · Panasonic Museum facility guide · See them on the map ↓
Source: Takenaka Corporation project page “Technology CUBE” · Panasonic HD news release, Mar 9, 2026 · Osaka Prefecture award page (FY2025) · Technology Division highlight, Sep 15, 2026
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Benefits (Japan)
Granted each year; employees in Japan took 21.4 days on average in FY2026 (85.5%).
Work that doesn't assume coming in; 19.6% of employees in Japan worked remotely at least half the days in a month (April 2026).
Choose your own start and end times; 44,273 employees in Japan use flexible hours.
A selective four-day workweek; 133 people used it in FY2026.
Rent subsidy for your own lease (capped), or company housing and singles' dormitories where you pay 20–35%.
Spend points on childcare, nursing care, housework help, courses, books, health checks, gyms or company products.
A year, for a child's illness, vaccinations or school events.
Leave to live with a spouse who is posted overseas.
Source: Panasonic Group careers site, Benefits page (2026) · Panasonic Group human capital management data (FY2026). Plans may differ by operating company.
Why people stay: what Panasonic itself reports
3,470 applications in Japan in FY2026; 5,236 transfers over the four years FY2023–FY2026.
Excluding mandatory retirement; 5.8% for mid-career hires. Including all reasons, 10.7% for both.
89% of eligible men took childcare leave in FY2026, up from 76% in FY2024.
Share of employees who feel encouraged and see no big barriers to taking on challenges; the target is 60% by FY2029 and 70% by FY2032.
512 people used the outside side-job system in FY2026; a “Multiple Internal Roles” system lets people help another department while keeping their own job.
The Panasonic Museum in Kadoma passes on Konosuke Matsushita's words and the company's products and spirit to the next generations.
Source: Panasonic Group human capital management data (FY ended Mar 31, 2026) · Panasonic Museum page
Who works here
employees worldwide (Mar 31, 2026)
work in Japan; 16% in North America
hired in Japan in FY2026 (1,516 graduates, 544 mid-career)
of managers in Japan are women (Apr 2026)
Source: Annual Securities Report FY2026 (employees) · Panasonic Group human capital management data, 2026 (region, jobs, gender, hiring, managers)
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Office history: from a rented house in Osaka to 93 years in Kadoma
- 1918 A rented two-storey house in Ohiraki-cho, Osaka
On March 7, 1918, Konosuke Matsushita moved from a cramped home in Ikaino to a larger rented two-storey house in Ohiraki-cho (today Ohiraki 2-chome, Fukushima-ku) and founded Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works. Three ground-floor rooms became the workshop, with two hand-operated presses and a staff of three: Konosuke, his wife Mumeno and her brother Toshio Iue. By the end of the year there were 20 people.
Source: Panasonic Group History, 1918 (English and Japanese pages)
Monument to Konosuke Matsushita's founding, Ohiraki Park, Osaka, 2016 · Pityuu3 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1922 The first head office and factory, designed by the founder
Production outgrew the house and the neighbouring one. Matsushita leased a site of about 230 m² nearby, designed the factory and office himself, and they were completed in July 1922; by the end of the year more than 50 people worked there. A second head office and factory followed in the same Ohiraki area.
Source: Panasonic Group History, 1922 · Konosuke Matsushita Museum, “Places associated with Konosuke” (Ohiraki)
Founding monument on the site of the second head office and factory, Ohiraki, Osaka, 2007 · Inoue-hiro / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1933 The third head office: a 70,000 m² complex in rural Kadoma
With more than 1,200 employees and 200 products, Matsushita built a new head office and factory complex on land in Kadoma, northeast of Osaka, first bought for an employee training school. The company moved into the 70,000 m² facility in 1933 and introduced its divisional system the same year. The head office had French roof tiles on the ground floor, Spanish tiles above and a ship's wheel bought in Kobe as a symbol of steering the company.
Source: Panasonic Group History, 1933 · History of Panasonic Holdings (May 1933) · Konosuke Matsushita Museum, “About the building”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1935 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
The business was incorporated on December 15, 1935, with ¥10 million in capital.
Source: History of Panasonic Holdings Corporation
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2008 The name becomes Panasonic Corporation
In October 2008 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. was renamed Panasonic Corporation.
Source: History of Panasonic Holdings Corporation
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2018 The 1933 head office, rebuilt as a museum
For the 100th anniversary, the Konosuke Matsushita Museum on the Kadoma site was built as a faithful recreation of the 1933 head office. The original 1933 stained glass, kept in the old museum since 1968, was moved into it in March 2018.
Source: Konosuke Matsushita Museum page (Panasonic Museum)
Inside the Konosuke Matsushita Museum, 2022 · Mio0222mio / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2022 Panasonic Holdings, still at 1006 Kadoma
In April 2022 the company became a holding company, Panasonic Holdings Corporation, and moved its businesses into operating companies. The head office stayed at 1006 Kadoma, Kadoma City.
Source: History of Panasonic Holdings Corporation · corporate profile
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 Technology CUBE opens on the head-office site
Completed in August 2025 and in full operation from April 2026, the eight-storey R&D hub brought together about 1,400 Technology Division employees and labs from three sites in Moriguchi, Nishi-Kadoma and Kita-Kadoma.
Source: Panasonic HD news release, Mar 9, 2026 · Technology Division highlight, Sep 15, 2026
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Map: how the headquarters moved
From a rented house in Osaka's Fukushima ward to Kadoma, about 11 km to the northeast. Panasonic has kept its head office there since 1933 — and still builds on the same site.
- 1 · 1918Ohiraki-cho, Fukushima-ku, Osaka — The founding house (district-level location)
- 2 · 1922Ohiraki, Fukushima-ku, Osaka — First head office and factory, nearby (district-level location)
- 3 · 1933Kadoma, Osaka — Third head office and factory complex (city-level location)
- 4 · 20261006 Kadoma, Kadoma City — Today's head office, Technology CUBE and Panasonic Museum
Addresses and places: Panasonic Group History (1918, 1922, 1933) · Konosuke Matsushita Museum pages · Panasonic HD corporate profile
What Panasonic does
Panasonic began in 1918 making attachment plugs and two-way sockets in a rented house in Osaka. Today the group of 447 companies calls itself a comprehensive electronics manufacturer: business systems and software, building and lighting products, air conditioning, batteries, industrial devices and home appliances.
Six reportable segments since January 2026: Connect, Electric Works, HVAC & CC, Energy, Industry and Smart Life.
Where the money came from · Sales by segment · FY2026 (year to Mar 31, 2026)
Source: Annual Securities Report FY2026 (English translation), Description of Business and Operating Results by Segment
Source: Annual Securities Report FY2026 (English translation)
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥8.00T → ¥8.05T
271,869 → 183,685
Fiscal years end March 31. Net sales and employees (consolidated, IFRS): Annual Securities Reports for FY2023 (FY2019–FY2021) and FY2026 (FY2022–FY2026). Employee numbers fell as businesses such as automotive left the group. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Joined in 1989 after a master's in engineering at Kyoto University; CEO from April 2021, Representative Director and President from June 2021, Group CEO since October 2021.
Founder: Konosuke Matsushita, who started the business in 1918 with his wife Mumeno and her brother Toshio Iue.
Source: Panasonic HD executive profile of Yuki Kusumi · news release, Apr 1, 2021 · Panasonic Group History, 1918
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Panasonic: questions people ask
Where is Panasonic's headquarters?
At 1006 Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8501, Japan — the site where Panasonic has had its head office since 1933. For map searches Panasonic suggests 3-1 Yagumo Nakamachi, Moriguchi City.
Source: Panasonic HD corporate profile · History of Panasonic Holdings
Can you visit Panasonic's headquarters?
The Panasonic Museum on the head-office site is open to the public free of charge, 10:00–17:00 on weekdays (closed weekends, holidays and company holidays; closed on Saturdays since April 2026). It is about a 2-minute walk from Nishisanso Station on the Keihan Line.
Source: Panasonic Museum facility guide
What is Technology CUBE?
Panasonic Holdings' core R&D hub on the Kadoma head-office site: eight storeys and 42,094 m² (≈ 453,100 sq ft), completed in August 2025 and in full operation from April 2026. The March 2026 release said about 1,000 people from AI, materials, devices and production engineering would work there; a September 2026 update said about 1,400 Technology Division employees moved in from three sites.
Source: Panasonic HD news release, Mar 9, 2026 · Technology Division highlight, Sep 15, 2026
Who designed Panasonic's new Technology CUBE building?
Takenaka Corporation's Osaka design office. The building won the Osaka Governor's Prize in the FY2025 Osaka Environmentally Friendly Architecture Award and a 2026 Nikkei New Office Award (Creative Office Award).
Source: Takenaka Corporation project page · Osaka Prefecture award page · Technology Division highlight, Sep 15, 2026
What is the Konosuke Matsushita Museum?
A faithful recreation of Panasonic's third head office, built in Kadoma in 1933, with the original stained glass and a replica of the ship's wheel the founder bought in Kobe. Inside, a full-scale recreation of the 1918 workshop and seven chapters on Konosuke Matsushita's 94 years.
Source: Konosuke Matsushita Museum page
What benefits does Panasonic offer in Japan?
25 days of paid leave a year, flextime, remote work, an optional four-day week, rent subsidies of 50–65% (capped) or company housing, a points-based cafeteria plan, 5 days of family support leave a year and up to 5 years' leave to live with a spouse posted abroad. Plans may differ by operating company.
Source: Panasonic Group careers site, Benefits page · human capital management data
Does Panasonic allow remote work?
Yes. The group has a remote work system that does not assume coming to the office; in April 2026, 19.6% of employees in Japan worked remotely at least half the days of the month, and 89.7% used flexible working hours.
Source: Panasonic Group careers site · human capital management data (2026)
How many people work at Panasonic?
183,685 employees on a consolidated basis at March 31, 2026; 38% of them work in Japan.
Source: Annual Securities Report FY2026 · human capital management data
Where was Panasonic founded?
In a rented two-storey house in Ohiraki-cho, now Ohiraki 2-chome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, on March 7, 1918.
Source: Panasonic Group History, 1918
Who is Panasonic's CEO?
Yuki Kusumi, Representative Director, President and Group CEO of Panasonic Holdings. He became CEO in April 2021.
Source: Panasonic HD executive profile · news release, Apr 1, 2021
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