Toshiba marked its 150th anniversary last year, a remarkable milestone made possible by the enduring support of countless individuals over the years. The company’s roots trace back to two visionary founders: Hisashige Tanaka, an inventor who established Tanaka Engineering Works and boldly declared, “We welcome orders for inventions of all types of machinery,” and Dr. Ichisuke Fujioka, who, guided by his principle of “Shizen,” highest virtue, founded Hakunetsu-sha. These founding philosophies have shaped Toshiba’s identity and continue to sustain its legacy.
Toshiba has constantly embraced challenges, drawing on its unique wisdom and technological capabilities to realize innovations and apply them to the advance of society. This challenging spirit and a dedication to contributing to social progress are deeply aligned with our enduring basic commitment, “Committed to People, Committed to the Future.”
Society expects companies to bring a long-term perspective to tackling increasingly complex and serious social challenges, and to address them through their business activities. Our efforts to do this, and to contribute to people’s well-being and the realization of a sustainable global environment, also enhance corporate value.
The world has seen dramatic changes in recent years. Most notable of all is the rapid advance of AI, which has made its way into many areas, including power, industrial equipment, robotics, and infrastructure. This major trend is reshaping entire industries. Geopolitical risk is also increasing worldwide, which makes strengthening supply chains and cybersecurity more important than ever, alongside efforts to reinforce defense capabilities. This is also an age of increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters, with a heightened need for more resilient infrastructure.
These changes confront society with new challenges—but they also present Toshiba Group with significant opportunities to channel the technologies and expertise cultivated over many years into new levels of value creation. We are determined to seize opportunities and achieve growth, and will act fast and decisively to realize our ambitions.
Toshiba Group, guided by the venture spirit that has been passed down since our founding, brings together the creativity and technological expertise of its people to realize our vision of an ideal world, a “society where people and nature coexist in harmony,” and a “safe and secure society.” By leveraging our strengths in energy, digital infrastructure, and devices & technology, together with digital technologies such as generative AI, we actively promote sustainability management and aim to build an economy that addresses social issues from the perspectives of “regeneration” and “circulation” for nature and society. Through these efforts, and together with a wide range of stakeholders, Toshiba will “turn on the promise of a new day.” Building on Toshiba Group's strengths, including the quantum technologies we have cultivated over many years, we will pioneer innovations that shape the future.
We ensure sustained enhancement of corporate value by continuing to place life, safety and compliance above all other management priorities, and are strongly aware that we must do all we can to avoid actions that undermine the healthy relationship of trust with our stakeholders, and act accordingly. As a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact, we are also strengthening our environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts to reinforce our foundations of ethical and transparent management.
Committed to People, Committed to the Future.
Taro SHIMADA
Representative Director
Corporate Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer
Toshiba Corporation