Toyobo was founded in 1882 as Osaka Boseki, the company's predecessor, by Eiichi Shibusawa, who was called the father of the Japanese modern industry. For over 120 years since then, Toyobo has experienced many business restructurings starting from the textile business and developed new business domains such as the film business, the highly-functional materials business and the bioscience and medical business, by taking advantage of its own core technologies of polymerization, modif ication, processing and bioscience.
Now in the 21st century, Toyobo faces a major change in the circumstances surrounding people's life and economy. The Toyobo Group aims to be a manufacturer of high-tech materials that combines and deepens these own technologies to continue creation of the new values demanded by the age. Shibusawa's personal motto, "Junrisokuyu" was that listening to reasons will lead to prosperity, which is consistent with the current corporate principle of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR*), compliance with legal regulations and corporate governance. This principle is still being inherited traditionally as a manufacturer of high-tech materials shifting from an all-round textile manufacturer. * CSR : Corporate Social Responsibility
