Toshiba International Foundation

Supported the symposium on "Millennium of Genji monogatari in Japanese culture" in Poland, held at the Warsaw University.

Helped the museum of Fine Arts, Boston to digitalize books from the Edo era.

Donated Japanese books to two national universities in Uzbekistan.

Helped the short-term program of the National University of Singapore to study Japanese language and culture in Japan.

Supported the international symposium on the Genji Monogatari in Paris, held at the Institut National des Langue et Civilisation Orientales (INALCO).

Helped the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to digitalize books from the Edo era.

Donated Japanese books and language textbooks to two national universities in Uzbekistan.

Helped the internship program of the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand to send students to have internship at Toshiba.

Mori Ogai Memorial Hall

The foundation provided financial and materiel support for the collection and cataloguing of research data at the Mori Ogai Memorial Hall in Berlin, Germany.

TIFO provided support for the "Toshiba Symposium," a series of lectures on modern Japan at Depauw University, Illinois.

The foundation provided support for the Galung Foundation, an NPO that provides Japanese language education to young people in Indonesia.

To facilitate mutual understanding between Japanese and Koreans, support was provided for an international exchange camp for Japanese and Korean high school students.

The foundation provided support for workshops for the teaching methodology of Japanese literature for the faculty of Japanese literature at Delhi University in India.

Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) supported "Kabuki Actors on Osaka Stage" exhibition at the British Museum. (June - Sept. 2005)

Since 2003, the foundation has been providing support for the holding of "Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art" organized by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in the U.K.

Toshiba invited students from Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the U.S., and other countries for summer programs on Japanese culture in Japanese universities.

Since 1991, the foundation has been providing support for the production of museum guides in foreign languages successively for national museums in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara and Kyushu.

Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) donated teaching and learning materials to the Japanese- Khmer Friendship Language School in Cambodia for training of Japanese teachers and for students who wish to learn Japanese.

TIFO is supporting the conservation project of Mazarin Chest, a superb Japanese lacquer ware owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. Japanese experts have been dispatched for a four-year period to transfer the conservation skills.

In September 2004, TIFO, in cooperation with Toshiba Corp., held an international symposium for young people titled "What will become of the world and yourself in 2015" to mark its 15th anniversary.

TIFO sponsored a Japanese pop culture related symposium at University of Kansas in Nov. 2004 titled“In Godzillas Footsteps: Japanese Pop Icons on the Global Stage”.

TIFO donated approximately 300 Japanese books to Toshiba Library in Dalian University Library in China. TIFO has continued to support promotion of Japanese language education and Japanese studies in China since 1989.

A Production Technology Seminar was conducted for 20 member companies of the Federation of Thai Industries.Toshiba engineers gave lectures to provide knowledge on production technology.

As part of its efforts to promote international understanding, Toshiba provided support for a symposium held in July 2003 entitled "Examination of the Political, Economic, Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Relationship between Indonesia and Japan over Thirty Years (1970 to 2000)," More than 200 researchers, government officials, and journalists participated.

Toshiba provides continuing support for the production of foreign-language leaflets for the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Tokyo National Museum, and the Nara National Museum.

In October 2003, Toshiba Group dispatched three instructors to Thailand to conduct a Production Technology Course for business managers, factory managers, and production managers.

The British Association for Japanese Studies promotes research on Japan and fosters researchers in Great Britain. Each year Toshiba confers the Toshiba International Foundation Award to honor the most outstanding research paper published in the Association's Japan Forum publication. The recipient of the award for 2003 was Dr. Penny Francks of University of Leeds.