Rugby Training
Every Sunday, about 100 youngsters head for the grounds of Toshiba Fuchu Complex where former members of the Toshiba Fuchu Rugby Team give training sessions. These rugby veterans have been nurturing aspiring young rugby players for the past 22 years. Current team members also promote good relations with the local community by providing lessons to school students.
Soft Tennis Classes
Toshiba Himeji Soft Tennis Club provides soft tennis classes targeted at junior and high school students.
Baseball Coaching
Toshiba Baseball Team provides baseball classes for children.
Basketball Lessons
Toshiba Brave Thunders, which plays in The basketball JBL Super League provides basketball lessons for citizens at Komukai Operations.
Festivals
Toshiba frequently opens up company grounds to hold various events for local residents. Many look forward to these events in which Toshiba Group employees are involved. Festivals at Toshiba are now a big seasonal draw in numerous areas.
In order to support the creativity of all artists by providing an opportunity to show the potential of the young generation, from kindergarten children to university students, the Thai Toshiba Group has held an art exhibition entitled "Brings Good Things to Life" for 17 years, starting in 1989. The art exhibition consists of an art contest and exhibition, for which an average of 3,200 paintings are entered each year, and in total, more than 60,000 young people have participated. The opening ceremony in November 2004, to which Princess Sirindhorn was invited, was held in grand style, with the participation of 400 guests and 200 students.
Project to Disassemble and Restore the Perpetual Clock (in 2004)
The key to the
Perpetual Clock is
handed to the
director of the National
Science MuseumIn cooperation with the Inventions in the Edo Period-a project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to investigate the origins of workmanship in Japan-Toshiba is supporting research on the disassembly, reconstruction, and reproduction of the Perpetual Clock, a clock created by Toshiba founder Hisashige Tanaka that is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese clockmaking. Toshiba has loaned the clock to the Naitonal Science Museum and provided Corporate R&D Center engineers to serve as project advisors.
10-Year Great Walk on China Great Wall
Employees participate
in the opening
ceremonyToshiba co-sponsors this event which was launched in 2003 and will run for 10 years. Entrance fees are donated to support repair work to preserve the Great Wall, a World Heritage site. Toshiba has also donated desks for use by students at a school in the Huairou District of Beijing.
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