Social Contributions Activities Japan[J-L]

Employee contributions of 291,000 yen were donated to three social welfare organizations in Nomi City. The prize money of 100,000 yen from the First Toshiba "ASHITA" Award was presented to the Nomi City Government to be used for social welfare purposes.

Junior high school students learn about semiconductor production processes and simulate product measuring processes.

The company has sponsored the Ishikawa Reforestation Association since 1998. And many employees participate in the activities.

Clean-up initiative in area around the factory is held more than once a year. This time, 200 employees and their family joined the activity even though it was held on a holiday in the early morning.

In August, 80 children from five local children's home were invited up to the office, where they had a fine view of the Naniwa fireworks display. The noise of the fireworks was piped into the room, adding to the festive atmosphere.

Employees donated 14 headlamps for a fishing event for people with disabilities, which aimed to expand the range of their leisure activities.

Collects and donates used prepaid cards and used postal stamps to the Japan Overseas Christian Medical Cooperative Service to support their purchase of medical equipment.

Since 2006, our young engineers have joined the workshop event hosted by Kawamata-machi as lecturers. A total of 30 to 50 local elementary school children learned about the mechanism of electricity generation and with the assistance of the young engineers tried making motors for Toshiba products. Also since 2001, we have been accepting interns from local junior high and high schools, for training of processing and assembly work in the Production Department for about five days.

Young engineers joined the event hosted by Kawamata City board of educations to teach 30 children from local elementary schools how to build motors.

The company organized a hands-on learning day aimed at helping junior high school students take a step toward their future careers. Students were taught about the importance of hard work and respect for their parents.

The company accepted first-year Kawamata High School students for a one-week internship. The students were given the opportunity to build something with their own hands in a factory̶an experience they could never have in a classroom.

Reported on the company's risk initiatives at a symposium hosted by the Ministry of the Environment.

Toshiba Group Union and the company joined hands to contribute to the activities that support handicapped people in the community for over 10 years. Annual events such as New Year's Mochi Cooking Festival and the Tangerine Picking Event is held. Some employees also support swimming lessons for the mentally challenged children every other week.
The prize money we won last year was donated to two associations of parents with mentally challenged children in Tsurumi-ku.

Provides gym as the venue for the Tsurumi Ward Volleyball Tournament and the field as the venue for a gate ball meet.

We offere plant tours for a total of 300 people every year, including high school students, university students and international trainees.

A total of 370 employees including those who work at Group companies joined the event and weeded the road from the office to the closest train station, including the parks in the neighborhood.

A part of the premises is opened for public as Umishiba Park providing a relaxation spot. More space is opened up in 2006 to support the initiative of Yokohama City Government to increase waterfront public green spaces for its citizens as part of Keihin afforestation.

Sponsored a big summer festival in the area having 1.5 million participants every year. 150 Toshiba Group employees joined one of the dances to make the finale of the event.

Kitakyushu Operations opened its premise to the local community to hold Toshiba Festival. There were live shows on the main stage to entertain the guest. Furthermore, experimental class using LEDs was held for elementary school children. The children were absorbed in the experiments. Approximately 10,000 local residents participated in the festival and enjoyed a day event.

We are cooperating with the “Aluminum can and pull tab collection drive. ” 800kg of pull tabs can buy a wheel chair. So far, we have collected 88.5kg. We are also carrying out “Eco-cap drive” to support the campaign “Send vaccines to the world's children by PET bottle caps.” So far we have collected 443kg of caps (approximately 180,000), which can be exchanged for vaccinations for 221 people.

Decorates the main gate of the factory with illuminations in the Christmas season, and supports people's safety and prevention of crime by illuminating the streets.

Set up a Toshiba booth at the Autumn Traffic Safety Festa in Kitakyushu to exhibit LEDs used for traffic signals, a main product of the Kitakyushu Operations. In addition, 20～40 employees participate in the Traffic Safety parade.

Local junior high school students are invited to visit the Operations, given explanations about the outline of the Operations and its products. They experience a clean room environment and the wafer baking process. They are impressed by the production process and the leading technologies.

We cooperated with the “Kitakyushu Eco-life Stage” hosted by Environment Bureau of Kitakyushu. We exhibited our LED lamps at the event site. Visitors were impressed by the energy-saving effect.

The city government of Kitakyushu has been qualifying excellent experts in Japan as "Kitakyushu Meister" since 2001, and qualified 20 experts until 2004. Production Chief Murakami of the Assembling Production and Technology Division, who was qualified in 2002, passes down the importance and fun of making things through lectures and technical guidance at school. Including the participants in the lecture held at the local junior high school, the total number of participants in the activity of passing down skills conducted by the Kitakyushu Meister exceeded 10,000. At the memorial ceremony held along with the lecture, Production Chief Murakami donated a memorial objet d'art to the school.

The Special Kitashiba Fire Brigade, consisting of 24 employees, works in cooperation with the local fire station. Members of this fire brigade attend regular monthly training sessions in addition to joint training sessions with the local fire station (in which the brigade has been participating in for 21 consecutive years), and goes into action in the company's own fire engine to fight fires in the neighborhood four or five times a year. When a fire broke out near the plant on the evening of June 16, 2006, the fire brigade was the first to arrive on the scene and to fight the fire, while other employees assisted in the rescue of elderly people and traffic control in the surrounding area. There were no injuries and the fire was able to be contained.
In 2007 the Southern Fukushima Fire Department ran not only traditional fire drills, but those related to chemical fires as well. Disaster preparedness among company employees and local residents was also promoted with the help of Fukushima Prefecture's earthquake simulation vehicle.
In 2008, awarded “person of merit” by the fire station

Since 1994, the company has kept the tradition of cleaning the area within a 2 to 3 km radius, including the roads around the factory and the JR Matsukawa train station. Volunteers picked up rubbish and cleaned the windows of the station. This event has been held once or twice a year. A total of 104 people joined the 21st event including the president, the chairman of the labor union, and employees and their families. A total of 100 kg of burnable rubbish, 80 kg of unburnable rubbish and 4 bags of PET bottles were collected.

We invited local children to our Kitashiba Sports Day for tennis lessons.

For the annual fall festival, we provided a space within the premises as the event site and also 4-t trucks and sound systems.

Joined the event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fukushima City, and held a workshop to demonstrate melting metals with electricity. Participating children were surprised to learn about the features of electricity.

Cosponsored local events, such as fire festival in Fukushima City, children's ball game, tanka poems and haiku competition, etc.

Three students from Shoryo Junior High School in Fukushima participated in the Junior High School Hands-On Learning Program. Accompanied by supervisors, they donned safety shoes and observed employees at work, spending a total of five days learning about company operations. The company also donated HDD/DVD recorders to their school.

Guided local junior high school students around the firefighting facilities on the premises at the request of the local fire station.

An employee lectured at a local high school to increase students' awareness of career options.

Collected 55-yen donations in commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the company in cooperation with three other Group companies.Donated 370 nameplates with straps on which names and emergency contact numbers can be written to the local senior citizens club that works to ensure the safety of children traveling on school routes.

In order to enhance the awareness of CSR among employees, a cleaning activity is held once a month around the office.

In celebration of Komukai Operations' 70th anniversary, Operations-wide CSR activity is promoted. All employees participated in one or more themed activities derived from Toshiba's "Five Pillars of CSR". Divided into groups by work sector, seventy-one of the 134 groups participated in community activities such as clean-ups; collection drives for books, plastic bottle caps and other articles; assisting with Miyuki Operations at local festivals; as well as its environmental courses : and transportation courtesy awareness programs.

Komukai Operations shares its athletic facilities with local groups. This year the Operations hosted educational courses such as the fire department's awareness course, a rehabilitation course for the disabled, a local health care center fitness course, and the neighborhood association's baseball course. In all, approximately 3,800 local residents used our facilities.

To commemorate the factory's 70th anniversary, employees clean the neighborhood with the help of other Group companies.

As one of the events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the plant, we have collected PET bottle caps with the cooperation of local residents in order to raise funds for the provision of vaccinations to children all over the world.

578 used prepaid cards and 131 miswritten/unused post cards collected were donated to Kawasaki Citizen Activities Center.

The idle PCs from the Operations are donated to citizen activity centers in Kawasaki city after maintenance.

Participates in an event hosted by the Kawasaki City Government, to exhibit energy-saving products, such as air conditioners, and to introduce energy-saving activities of the Komukai Operations to the public, in cooperation with the Toshiba Carrier Air Conditioning Systems.

Toshiba basketball team coaches students from three neighboring junior high schools at the gym of the Komukai Operations. This has continued for more than 10 years and contributes to promotion of regional sports activities.

Donated a notebook PC and a refrigerator to a Vocational aid center for the people with mental disabilities.

The clean-up activity started from Matsuyama Office is now adopted in other three offices and more employees are cleaning the area voluntarily.

1,000 employees brought unused items from their homes to hold a two-day bazaar within the company building. It was the fourth event this year, and the proceeds of more than 40,000 yen was donated to a social welfare corporation Nishinippon Shimbun Public Welfare Service Organization.

PET bottle caps were collected and donated to the Japan Committee of Vaccination for the World's Children. Through four collecting periods, in total we collected 116,600 caps this year, which is worth 58 vaccines.

Every month, six group companies are cleaning their neighborhood together.

Employees stand at the intersection near the plant and appeal to passers-by about the importance of traffic safety during the Spring/Autumn Nationwide Traffic Safety Campaign periods.

In order to enhance the awareness of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) among employees, we had a donation drive instead of just making a financial contribution from the company's fund. A total of 7,394 yen was donated to Oita Godo Shumbunsha Welfare Organization.

Organizes a fund-raising activity to cooperate with the initiative by Toshiba Oita My Car Club.

The company received a student from Cameroon as an intern. The internship included preparation of product specification, program designing support and individual guidance.

Internships were provided to college and university students from across Oita Prefecture. Recipients received one-on-one instruction and hands-on experience in production-related activities. The interns made presentation on what they have learned on their last day of internship.

The company cleans the area around the office once a month.

Beginning in 2005, an annual flea market fundraiser has been held at Kanuma Plant for the Shimono Newspaper Corporation's Shimono Traffic Accident Victims' Fund. Each employee is asked to donate and buy one item.
Donated the prize money of 100,000 yen which the company had received as the winner of the First Toshiba "ASHITA" Award in 2005, to the Shimotsuke Orphans Scholarship Fund sponsored by the Shimotsuke Shimbun.
In 2007, 85,500 yen was raised, our best year yet.
After that, donates about 60,000 yen every year.

Holds nine plant tours every year to introduce local children the production processes and the history of light bulbs.

Provides baseball field, tennis courts, etc. of the Kanuma Plant for local people to enjoy sports.

We gave a lecture to the students from Chuo College of Technology in the Building Equipment Course about the lamp's mechanism of light generation and the history of Toshiba light bulbs. The lecturer explained the difference between filament lamps, fluorescent lamps, and LED lamps.

We have participated in the exhibition hosted by Morioka Children's Museum of Science and put up panels that show the differences between filament bulbs and florescent bulbs, as well as the energy-saving function of florescent bulbs.

On the 21st of October, the company held a workshop cooperating to Japan Electrical Manufactures'Association. Children who participated brought materials from home, and made their own toys by combining them with six different colored LEDs (ready-to-assemble kit provided) with help from the engineers.

Baseball team of Kanuma Plant gave baseball lessons to young players from local elementary and junior high schools.

In response to a request from Tochigi Prefecture's commerce and industry tourism department, the company supplemented its traditional facilities tour with an event that helped impart upon children the fun of creating through practical science demonstrations and a lecture on lighting.

Clean-ups surrounding the company premise are conducted regularly responding to a request from a concil in the Industrial zone.

The company held a Christmas party inviting the local residents to have mutual friendship. The party featured music from an employee band, an employee talent show, a special stage utilizing devices from Toshiba Lighting Systems and games for all, including bingo.

Every year, the company cafeteria is provided to the festival as a rest station. Financial contributions and drinks are provided by the company.

To mark the creation of the Ibaraki branch of the Wako Electric Corporation’s labor union, management and labor held an evening festival aimed at promoting exchange between local residents, employees and family members. A flea market was also held, with articles donated by employees. The 48,930 yen in proceeds went to the Joso Culture and Sports Promotion Fund.

At the request from the university, we provided a plant tour in the facilities of lighting production for a group of hearing impaired students.

PET bottle caps that can be exchanged for money to send vaccines to children in need around the world were collected in the office. A total of 47.1 kg of caps were collected during the nine months period which is worth vaccines for 47 people.

Used stamps, prepaid cards, meter stamps which were no longer used in the office were collected and donated to relevant organizations.

We collected 200 g worth of pull-tabs for recycling. The proceeds were used to donate wheelchairs to local facilities.

Since 2007, we have been supporting the activities of “Ohori River Cleaning Association.”This year we braved the cold water once again to collect rubbish.

We cleaned the public roads around the Ishikawa Storehouse.

Volunteered employees picked up PET bottles and cigarette butts littered around the establishment of Narita Air Cargo Center.

The company registered as a member of Clean Kawasaki Committee. Participated in their clean-up initiative at the Tama River bank together with partner companies.

Donated 500 CDs to a charity event hosted by the Chiba Trucking Association. The proceeds were used to support traffic accident orphans.

Organizes a rice cake pounding event at a local kindergarten.Then visits a special-needs old people's home in the city with the children to present rice cakes to the residents.They all gain valuable experience by sharing each others time. A total of 170 people participated in 2007.

Participated in the “Send vaccines to the world's children by PET bottle caps” campaign. A total of 142 kg (vaccines for 35 children) were collected.

Pounds rice cakes and gives them away to passers-by in front of the police station to appeal to local people about the importance of traffic safety as part of Oita Prefecture's Year-end Zero Accident Campaign.

Participates in an around-Oita Prefecture relay road race as runners and staff members of the local Kitsuki City Team, winning the race for the fifth time and for the second consecutive year in 2006.

Makes contributions to various local events including a fireworks display, track-and-field events and festivals.

We held a cultural exchange day for local elementary school children with the cooperation from our Chinese apprentices who are working with us on the Japan International Training Cooperation Organization program. The children enjoyed making boiled jiao-zi dumplings and playing bingo with the apprentices. They also performed a series of Chinese folk songs they had prepared for the event.

Thirty four employees and their families and local residents cleaned up the areas in the city that had illegally-dumped waste.

Every year, we invite local elementary schools to our premises as a rest point during their field trip. This year, a total of 270 children from two schools visited us. We gave them a short lecture on environmental issues to promote their understanding on the subject, and also handed to them the Toshiba's original informative leaflet “The little prince and the earth.”

Fukuoka Operations provided a plant tour to 43 Grade 3 students from Miyata-Higashi Elementary School. After viewing the production areas and partaking in a Q&A session, they were given the opportunity to learn about our environmental initiatives.