S：Working with local communities (Helping solve local issues)

Challenge

• Working with local communities (Helping solve local issues)

Our policy

We will create shared value with local communities and address social issues that we can contribute to through our corporate activities. By utilizing our Group resources and working in open dialogue with stakeholders, we will contribute to environmental conservation, development of the next generation, and community development within the scope of impact of our corporate activities.
Furthermore, at manufacturing bases that are predicted to have a particularly significant environmental impact as we expand our business, we will take a precautionary approach toward this increased risk on the surrounding biodiversity.

Responsible executives (as of April 2026)

• Main local social issues: Senior Corporate Officer and Vice President of Corporate Headquarters
• Main local environmental issues: Senior Corporate Officer and Vice President of Quality Assurance, Environment & Safety Headquarters

Organizational responsibilities (as of April 2026)

Corporate Headquarters and the human resources and general affairs departments of each base work together to lead initiatives.

Reporting systems

• Reporting hotline (whistle-blowing system): For executives, employees and suppliers
• Customer Relations Department: For customers (consumers) and local communities
• Online inquiry form: For customers (consumers), shareholders and investors, and NGOs
• Meetings with non-profit organizations: For local communities, and NPOs

Main resources for promoting activities (2025)

Funding for environmental conservation activities (includes donations from employees to the Toyo Tire Group Environmental Protection Fund.^*1 Japan only): Approx. 23.6 million yen
Funding for developing the next generation (non-consolidated): Approx. 10.2 million yen
Funding for community development (non-consolidated): Approx. 13.4 million yen

• *1 The Toyo Tire Group Environmental Protection Fund
  Toyo Tire Group Environmental Protection Fund: A fund established in 1992 to support non-profit organizations that undertake activities to protect the environment in partnership with Toyo Tire Corporation, domestic affiliated companies that Toyo Tire Corporation, has at least a 50% stake in, and corporate officers and employee of those companies, etc. Gift matching system under which the company contributes the same amount of money donated by employees.

Environmental protection around Group bases

We realize that Group corporate activities have the largest direct environmental impact in the areas around our manufacturing bases. We therefore work to build understanding of and trust in these activities through dialogue and information sharing with stakeholders in the surrounding areas, and engage in environmental conservation. We also promote local biodiversity conservation in recognition that biodiversity both generates direct benefits for local life and leads to sustainable growth.
At the Kuwana Plant, we have been working in partnership with Mie Prefecture, the local town of Toin and the NPO Mori-no Kaze on the “Toyo Tires Midori no Tsunagari Mie” initiative since 2024, which promotes environmental conservation and coexistence with local communities. In 2025, eight events were held from March onward, with a total of 214 employees collecting trash and working on the Green Trail and Green Plaza facilities. In June and December, the families of employees also participated in volunteer activities, with children learning the importance of protecting the environment by planting cherry trees, collecting autumn leaves, climbing trees, and hearing stories about the age rings of trees.
We are continuing our conservation efforts to ensure that the Green Trail can be safely used by local residents, and the Green Plaza adjacent to the local elementary school can be safely used by local children as an outdoor classroom space for environmental education.
Our Sendai Plant has also participated in the Millennium Hope Hills project since 2013. This initiative uses land that became uninhabitable by the tsunami caused by the 2011 earthquake to create parkways between hills that can dampen the force of a future tsunami and serve as evacuation sites.
Employees and their families also joined volunteers from around Japan to plant trees and remove weeds, with a total of 289 people participating over three sessions in 2025.
Medium-height trees like Japanese bay tree and white oak, and shrubs like East Asian eurya and Japanese aralia will grow into a beautiful forest in around 15 to 20 years. This forest shall serve as a kind of “green” tide embankment that dissipates and reduces the force of a tsunami, and contribute to maintaining biodiversity. Our production bases will continue working together with local communities to contribute to their development.

Preserving biodiversity

The Toyo Tire Group has manufacturing bases in Japan, the US, China, Malaysia and Serbia, and we comply with the environmental laws and regulations in each country when conducting operations.
To preserve biodiversity, we are following our long-term road map, conducting a current state assessment and evaluating our dependency and impact on natural capital including biodiversity.

• Click here for information on our long-term road map.

Toyo Tire Group Environmental Protection Fund

Based on employees’ desire to do their part as local citizens and members of society in helping create a better world, we established the Toyo Tire Group Environmental Protection Fund in 1992 to provide financial support for organizations and activities related to environmental conservation both in and outside of Japan. The fund works through a donation matching system where the company contributes an equal amount of money for every voluntary donation made by employees. About 70% of employees participate, and it has become an established way for the Group to engage in environmental conservation.
The fund itself is formed of two types: an in-house fund within the Group, and a foundation fund within the Osaka Community Foundation. The in-house fund is used in several ways, including to provide direct donations and funding to environmental organizations that we select, to cover the costs of providing workforce support through employee volunteers, and to subsidize organizations that have applied through an external selection partner.
We select organizations to visit for observation once per year to understand more about recipients’ activities and exchange ideas with representatives so that we can provide even better support. Our secretariat staff directly participated in the activities of three organizations in fiscal 2025, checking the status of their initiatives and learning more about their issues.
For example, we have aided the Council for Community Development with Millennium Coral by supporting their marine conservation activities of removing crown-of-thorns starfish and other coral-eating shellfish, as well as by developing the next generation of environmental stewards. We also provide funding to NPO Shinaimotsugo Sato-no-Kai to support the eradication of invasive species like the North American black bass and red swamp crayfish in order to help protect the endangered moroco fish (shinai-motsugo in Japanese), as well as the protection of native species like ray-finned fish (Acheilognathus typus). Another example is the Hyogo Prefecture Greening Association, which strives to maintain forests and create greenspaces as common assets of prefectural residents that absorb CO₂ and replenish water resources. The Association encourages prefectural residents to take part in forest maintenance and other greening activities. Hyogo Satoyama Festa 2025, held in Tatsuno City, Hyogo Prefecture, attracted approximately 4,100 people.
Learn more about our plan under the Toyo Tire Group Environmental Protection Fund for 2026.

• Funding Plan under the Toyo Tire Group Environmental Protection Fund (FY2026)

Support for educating the next generation (Career training)

We believe that nurturing the youth who will lead the next generation and the talent who will drive the sustainable growth of the automotive industry is crucial to ensure both business continuity and a society that is bettered through mobility. We have sponsored the Youth Creativity Development and Training Project run by the Osaka Institute of Invention and Innovation, to provide opportunities to open up possibilities for the future and enhance creativity. Moreover, since 2013, we have supported the Kansai Career Education Support Council’s^*2 Jonetsu Kyoshitsu (Class of Passion) using the Toyo Tire Group's resources to organize career talks that foster students' interest in manufacturing and help them develop career awareness from a young age.
In 2025, we held career talks in person at two junior high schools in Osaka.
We led quizzes and group work for students by using cut samples of tires and held workshops for participants to design their own tires, all while getting to see actual tires for themselves. The speakers talked about their own jobs to convey the importance of having passion for work and setting goals. The students held the samples as they were deeply engaged in the quiz, and actively asked many questions. Moving forward, we will continue to offer lessons upon request, and use our resources to communicate the wonder of automobiles and tires to help foster the next generation and drive the continuous growth of the automotive industry.

• *2 An industry-labor organization in the Kansai region that supports career education at elementary, junior high and high schools.

Support for community development

The Toyo Tire Group believes that helping provide a sound education for children of the next generation and proactively tackling various local challenges are vital to the continued development of local communities.
Since 2013, our Malaysian subsidiary has offered scholarship programs to students who are eager to study but, for economic reasons, do not have access to adequate learning environments, as well as to students who may have to give up on further studies because of the impact of inflation on livelihoods. Employees visit each applicant’s home and conduct interviews to select recipients. Since the start of the program, the Undergraduate Scholarship Program has provided financial support to 54 students studying for a degree at a local university (38 of whom have completed their degree), and the Student Education Assistance Program has supported 498 elementary school students in Kamunting and Taiping towns, with a total donation amount of 527,500 US dollars. Scholarship funds are used to help cover living expenses so that students can concentrate on their studies and purchase items needed for classes and assignments.
We also execute financial support programs to help establish school facilities and other infrastructure and to provide educational opportunities. In fiscal 2025, we donated a total of 20,000 US dollars to support two separate facilities.
Meanwhile, roughly 1,200 local residents participated in the Toyo Tires Charity Run, an annual event held since 2018 to support underprivileged communities. Also in fiscal 2025, we supported the construction of public fitness facilities to encourage healthier lifestyles.
Going forward, we remain committed to advancing community development by tailoring support activities to help address local issues.

Interaction with local communities

As a corporate citizen, the Toyo Tire Group is working to deepen its connection with the local communities in which we operate through activities that lead to their revitalization and sustainable development.
We conduct traffic safety awareness activities in the areas around our sites in partnership with local police departments.
In 2025, we participated in the Traffic Safety Festival in Itami for the second year in a row. The event is held in Itami City, Hyogo Prefecture, where our head office is located, during the city’s annual traffic safety campaign, and is designed to reduce the number of local traffic accidents and educate local residents about the importance of adhering to traffic rules and etiquette. Inside the venue, we set up a driving simulator that we developed ourselves and raised safety awareness through hands-on driving experiences. Participants mentioned how the experience helped them realize the impact that tire pressure and tread condition can have on driving and the importance of regular tire inspections.
On the day of the event, Itami City mayor, Shinya Nakata, also took his turn on the driving simulator, praising our traffic safety initiatives by saying, “Toyo Tire’s efforts as a mobility-related company to convey the importance of tire inspections to local citizens are extremely significant in terms of building a safe and secure community.”
Every fall we open our Tire Proving Ground in Hokkaido to the public as a sponsor of the Saroma Harvest Festival. Marking its 27th edition in 2025, the festival offered local specialty products and showcased studless tires that had been tested on our proving ground before being released.
At our Sendai Plant production base, we also held a community fair in 2025. Roughly 1,100 local residents, employee family members and other guests were invited to tour the plant, which is normally closed to the public, and we devised some hands-on experiences, such as handling tires straight off the production line, so that visitors could get a real feel of our manufacturing processes up close. Our various other fair events included the first-ever exhibition of a demo car fitted with our tires.