Social Contribution Activities

Purpose:
Aiming to solve social issues in each country and region and on a global scale, the TOTO Group is committed to working on social contribution activities that respect the living environment, culture and history of each region as well as its business activities, by effectively using its management resources.

Policies:
1. To realize the corporate philosophy, we will work on the activities to make people’s lives clean, comfortable and healthy.
2. To realize a sustainable society, we will work on the activities to protect the environment in the region and on a global scale.
3. As a good corporate citizen, we value relationships with people and make positive contribution to the community and society.

To realize the corporate philosophy, we will work on the activities to make people’s lives clean, comfortable and Wellness.

･TOTO Water Environment Fund

Through the TOTO Water Environment Fund, the Company supports organizations that engage in activities to improve unsanitary living environments around the world. In past activities, we supported a project to revive old wells in drought-hit areas for securing drinking water. This project freed residents from the labor of collecting water that involved long distances and many hours of walking. In another project, new facilities, such as toilets, were installed at elementary schools with poor sanitary conditions, improving the educational and sanitary environment for children.

･TOTO Museum

TOTO Museum

The TOTO Museum was founded as part of the commemorative project to celebrate the Group’s one-hundredth anniversary in 2017. It showcases the history of our efforts to create comfort and culture in everyday life and the spirit of manufacturing that has been passed down to the current generation. The Group aims for the museum to be an attractive facility that serves as both an interface with stakeholders and as a landmark that transmitting the TOTO brand from Kokura, the place where it was born, to the rest of the world. In 2024, about 72 thousand people visited this museum.
＞TOTO Museum

･TOTO GALLERY · MA

TOTO Publishing
Kazuo Shinohara: Carving eternity into space - 100 questions for the 100th anniversary of his birth

The TOTO Gallery Ma, a gallery specializing in architecture and design, has showcased philosophy and works of architects and designers since its opening in 1985. Its activities are expanding inside and outside Japan and conduct lectures for students studying architecture and those engaged in architectural business around Japan, as well as having exhibitions and lectures in cooperation with TOTO Group's overseas " business sites.
＞TOTO Gallery・MA

･TOTO Publishing 

TOTO Publishing

Since its founding in 1989, it has been publishing books with unique perspectives on architecture, design and lifestyles. From 1995, it has been publishing books linked to TOTO GALLERY · MA to present multifaceted concepts by different architects and designers.
＞TOTO Publishing

The TOTO Group contributes to the resolution of local community issues and sustainable development through "water environment conservation" and "carbon neutral initiatives" as activities to protect the "environment" on a regional and global scale toward the realization of a sustainable society.

To that end, we established the TOTO Water Environment Fund to support the activities of organizations that are working to preserve the global environment and create sanitary and comfortable living environments. Through this fund and other measures, we are contributing to the resolution of issues in local communities as well as their sustainable development.

The TOTO Acorn Reforestation Project

This activity started in fiscal 2006 and employees of all Group companies participate in it. They pick up acorns, grow them at their workplaces and homes, and plant seedlings in the original forest. With the cooperation of local communities, good care is taken of even after planting, including mowing.

Environmental activities at overseas business sites

Employees at all TOTO business sites participate in environmental activities with close ties to the locality.

Water conservation classes for elementary school students

We provide environmental education by visiting local elementary schools to have students learn how saving water in their daily lives can reduce CO2 emissions in addition to preserving the global environment and water resources.

As a good corporate citizen, we value relationships with people and make positive contribution to the community and society.

TOTO Group Summer Festival
The TOTO Group Summer Festival has been held at 13 plants across Japan since 1984. Our goal is to express our gratitude to the local people who take care of us on a daily basis and to deepen exchanges with the local community.

Promotion for Arts and Sports Kitakyushu International Music Festival
TOTO, which has its headquarters in Kitakyushu, has been a special supporter of this festival since it was first held in 1988 as we endorse the goal of the city of Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, which is to "develop a city redolent with culture." Every year, the festival brings in major artists from Japan and other countries and provides large numbers of visitors with an opportunity for musical appreciation. We have also continually provided an educational program that gives children from pre-school age through to junior high school age the opportunity to feel the joy of music by experiencing a full-scale concert. 

Theater of the Heart (Kokoro no Gekijo)
The TOTO Group supports the Theater of the Heart, a project of the Performing Arts Center (Butaigeijutu Center) and the Shiki Theatre Company to bring the excitement of a theatrical performance to children throughout Japan. This project holds 400 performances in about 140 cities, from Rishiri Island in Hokkaido in the north to Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture in the south, each year. In each part of Japan, a school is invited free of charge and the students enjoy the performance. Employees of the TOTO Group participate in the project as volunteers to support the operation of the project.

Giravanz Kitakyush
Giravanz Kitakyushu is a soccer team based in Kitakyushu, and TOTO is the main sponsor of Giravanz Kitakyushu, which is supported by the entire city of Kitakyushu, as a local company.

Comfort for senior citizens' facilities
Our domestic and overseas offices conduct community-based social welfare activities, such as consolations at senior citizen facilities and donations to child welfare facilities.

･Supporting Disaster-Affected Areas

In the event of heavy rainstorms, earthquakes or other large-scale disasters, the TOTO Group and its employees will combine forces to support the affected areas.

As part of support activities, we offer free inspections of TOTO products installed in the houses of our customers affected by the disaster.

In addition, the employees donate through the TOTO Group Fundraising System and are actively involved in physical work in the affected areas, such as removing the debris and restoring farmland as volunteer activities to support reconstruction of such areas.

Based on the "TOTO Group Policy for Social Contribution and Coexistence with Local Communities," the PDCA cycle is used to promote effective and efficient activities.

PDCA Cycle for Social Contribution and Local Community Harmony Activities

Progress：
Amount spent on social contribution in FY2024 : 1.23 billion yen

Amount spent on social contribution (total)

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The TOTO Group encourages its employees to participate in volunteer activities and donations.

The Group provides a variety of opportunities that make it easy for its employees to actively participate in volunteer activities with their families and business partners. In addition to the activities sponsored by organizations that receive grants from the TOTO Water Environment Fund and other environmental activities, such as community cleanups, each business site engages in a wide variety of community-based activities. Through these volunteer activities, we interact with local residents and further expand the scope of our activities. From fiscal 2024, we are encouraging employees to participate in donation in addition to volunteering. We are developing a corporate culture in which each employee feels a sense of ownership over various social issues through these activities and addresses them voluntarily.

Progress：
FY2024 Number of Volunteer participants ; 48,100 persons

Number of Volunteer Activity participant (total)

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※cumulative total number of employees and stakeholders involvend in and after 2010

･Volunteer activity leave program
We have launched a program that allows employees to take leave so that they can go out and do volunteer work. The program allows each employee to take a special paid leave for a maximum of five days per year or accumulate the maximum allotment of annual paid of 30 days that may only be used for designated purposes, such as volunteer activities.

･Matching Gift Program*, an Add-on to Employees’ Donation
When a major disaster strikes, the TOTO Group collects donations from its employees. As a matching gift*, TOTO contributes the same amount of these donations to provide more support for the victims. 

* A matching gift program is a method for companies and organizations to collect donations and relief money for social contribution purposes and add a certain percentage to the amount collected to increase the total amount to be donated.