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The ordinary general meeting of shareholders for 183th fiscal year was held on June 28, 2022, attended by 198 people, and deliberated on proposals for amendment of the Articles of Incorporation and for the election of directors. As a result, while approval was granted for both proposals, one of the thirteen elected directors resigned after the conclusion of the meeting. Accordingly, the current Board of Directors consists of twelve directors, of which, two are directors who concurrently serve as executive officers and ten are outside directors.
The ordinary general meeting of shareholders for 184th fiscal year was held on June 29, 2023, attended by 346 people, and deliberated on proposals for the election of directors. As a result, while approval was granted for the proposal. Accordingly, the current Board of Directors consists of eleven directors, of which, one is a director who concurrently serve as an executive officer and ten are outside directors.
For ordinary general meetings of shareholders for 181th fiscal year onward, the meeting is streamed live online to allow shareholders who are not physically attending the meeting to view the proceedings.

Toshiba Group strives to communicate with individual shareholders through our shareholder newsletters.

We hold various briefings including those for business results held on the same day as our quarterly business results announcements. During FY2022, all briefings were distributed online due to COVID-19. Our executive officers including the President and CEO have been holding dialogues with major shareholders and major institutional investors from Japan and overseas. The dialogues have been held at the same frequency as before via a video or audio conference.
Outside directors also meet with major shareholders and major institutional investors from Japan and overseas to promote engagement.

On our IR website, we endeavor to provide all investors, including individual investors, with fair, timely and easy-to-understand information disclosure that helps them make investment decisions. In response to requests from investors, we provide video data, including live streaming, of presentations and Q&A sessions during major briefings. Our website also features a questionnaire regarding the content of our website.

Toshiba Group promotes sustainable procurement activities with the aim of improving both corporate value and the value of its customers, while also striving to build sound partnerships with suppliers through fair trading in compliance with procurement-related laws and regulations. We request all our suppliers, who play an important role in the Toshiba Group companies’ production and services, to consent to and put into practice the Toshiba Group Procurement Policy. We perform monitoring of various kinds, strive to understand any issues present and to help implement corrective measures accordingly, work together with our suppliers to fulfil our corporate social responsibilities, and build relationships based on mutual understanding and trust.

Top executives deliver messages to Group employees on the importance of promoting sustainability, improving customer satisfaction, raising quality, ensuring legal compliance, and other key concerns.

Toshiba Group has conducted the employee morale survey (TEAM survey) every year since FY2003, as a way to gain feedback from employees. Through this survey, we periodically monitor the level of understanding among our employees towards the company’s various measures, and how firmly rooted they are. We strive to improve the issues that emerge and leverage them to enhance the corporate culture. The survey assesses employees’ understanding of company measures and whether their working conditions allow them to demonstrate their abilities. There are also questions regarding how the President and CEO and top management are perceived, the status of compliance and other measures, which are subsequently verified.

We conduct the 360-Degree Survey to look at managers and senior management every other year. And we also conduct the Multifaceted Evaluation to look at heads of each organization every year. We examine them from multifaceted perspectives with regard to their day-to-day work performance and activities, with perspectives including those of themselves, as well as of their junior colleagues, peers, and supervisors. The major aims of these initiatives are to encourage the growth of the participants by objectively identifying their strengths and weaknesses on a regular basis, and to enhance their leadership, which will lead to creating a more sound organization and organizational operation.

We hold workplace meetings to discuss various themes, so that managers and the employees they manage can talk and think together at a workplace level, and share feelings and opinions, in order to build a work environment where everyone feels free to discuss any matter. Such themes include verification of compliance awareness and improvement of operational processes. Increasing understanding of differences in individual philosophies among employees helps create a better workplace environment for the future.

In addition to disseminating information about Toshiba Group’s environmental initiatives in a timely manner, primarily through our Environment Website, we are also, in collaboration with local residents, administrative office, educational institutions, businesses, NPOs, and NGOs, promoting communication activities across our global worksites that reflect the age of a new normal.

Toshiba Group actively engages in a range of social contribution activities in addition to business activities toward the realization of a sustainable society. We are also working to contribute through exchange initiatives with local communities in the form of welfare and cleaning activities, etc.

Toshiba Group not only seeks to resolve issues faced by local communities through business, but engages in various activities that are rooted in the area as a member of the local community.

Toshiba actively participates in the activities of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, and other industry organizations to help address various issues such as the realization of a sustainable society and protection of the global environment.

We hold dialogue with NPOs and NGOs active in areas such as the environment, human rights, and social contributions, and are building partnerships leveraging mutual strengths of all parties. We determine which NPOs and NGOs to support and collaborate with based on criteria such as the degree of contribution to solving social problems, relationships with Toshiba Group’s priority business sectors, creativity, pioneer spirit, and relations with local communities.