update：July 17, 2024

As the Toyota Foundation commemorates the 50th year anniversary since its foundation, it has created a dedicated website for its 50th year anniversary projects, chronicling the foundation’s half-a-century history and providing information about a commemorative grant program to be publicly called for in October 2024.

The page titled “Now and Future: 10 Years Since Grant Reception” presents interview articles about some grant recipients of the past projects, telling stories of how such grant-awarded projects have since evolved further to play a role in underpinning our society today. 

In the second part of this interview series, Mr. Yuichi Watanabe, Secretary General of specified non-profit corporation The Laboratory for Global Dialogue, Mr. Atsushi Kadowaki, Representative Director of Community Art Laboratory, and Ms. Makiko Nakagawa, Director of The Laboratory for Global Dialogue were interviewed for an article about their projects granted under the category of the International Grant Program in fiscal 2017–"Community art project between afflicted areas of Japan and Aceh" and 2020-"Creating "New culture" through community art projects by Indonesian workers and local people in rural Japan".

This article can be viewed on the dedicated website for the 50th year anniversary projects.

The Toyota Foundation