TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors, meeting today, has provisionally decided to pay a year-end dividend of 6.50 Japanese yen per share for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2007. As a result, the planned annual dividend per share for FY2006 will be 11.00 Japanese yen.

Basic Policy on Profit Distribution
Toshiba, while giving full consideration to such factors as the strategic investments necessary to secure medium- to long-term growth, seeks to achieve continuous increases in its actual dividend payments, in line with a payout ratio in the region of 30 percent, on a consolidated basis.