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To Our Shareholders
I wish to deeply thank our shareholders for your continued strong support.
Our basic corporate mission is based on our total commitment to people and to the future. The Basic
Commitment of the Toshiba Group states that we “are determined to help create a higher quality of life
for all people and to do our part to help ensure that progress continues within the world community.” We
aim to contribute to people’s lives and culture around the world by emphasizing respect for people,
creating new value and contributing to society. Toshiba Group carries out business activities that are
closely connected to people in communities in countries and regions around the world and that
contribute to the building of an enriched society and economic development. At the same time, we intend
to continue to dedicate our all-out corporate efforts to helping to conserve the Earth’s environment.
In addition, we are working on strengthening and enhancing our corporate governance to maximize
corporate value from the point-of-view of our shareholders by improving the efficiency and transparency
of management. Under our management system, the Board of Directors is expected to play the key role in
supervising management.
It has been 10 years this year since Toshiba has shifted to the Company with Committees governance
system. Under this organization structure, management functions are separated: basic management
policy-making as well as the supervision of management are undertaken by the Board of Directors and the
Committees, while business operations are the responsibility of Executive Officers.
Furthermore, on the Board of Directors, an appropriate balance of supervisory and operational
functions is made certain by appointing an equal number of directors who concurrently serve as executive
officers and nonexecutive directors. In addition, half of the directors who are nonexecutive directors are
outside directors so that we can carry out our supervisory functions based on a broad level of expertise
and experience.
Going forward, as Chairman of the Board of Directors, I will endeavor to obtain regular, timely reports
from our executive officers on the state of the business operations they are in charge of by taking various
To Our Shareholders
02 TOSHIBA Annual Report 2013