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For play and sport we were born. Born for jesting and laughter, no doubt. For when I hear the voices of children playing, even my body begins to swing.

This poem from an anthology complied in Japan around 1180 expresses just how much children’s smiles and laughter are a treasure that empowers those around them. It reminds me that the feelings parents have for their children—regardless of social status, wealth, nationality or race, down through the ages—are all underpinned by the sole wish for their children’s happiness. Through play, children learn many things and acquire the fortitude to live. Wishing for healthy emotional and physical growth of children, we at the TOMY Group are committed to contributing to society through toys. Heading now toward our 90th anniversary, we have set clear targets with the goal of becoming one of the top three toy companies in the world, and have made a major shift in course in the direction of globalization. By globalization, I mean that the toys provided by the TOMY Group and everything that we do are intended to bring big smiles to the faces of children throughout the world. And their smiles will spread to the adults around those children. That is why we are building a strong sales network which will enable the TOMY Group’s outstanding products to excite the world’s markets.
We are committed to doing everything we can to ensure that children’s toys can be enjoyed safely and without worry. And most important of all is our determination to make toys that, once in a child’s hands, will allow that child to play with absorbing interest and eyes aglow. Therefore, I want TOMY to be the kind of company where its employees, as toy makers, are filled with genuine excitement. Trust in the TOMY brand by as many people as possible is, I believe, the sure path toward becoming a truly global toy company.
Right now, we are in the midst of great change. And change begets great opportunities. We will move forward toward those opportunities with a steady stride, one step at a time, believing that the pathway will not fail to open for us as we do.