update：May 14, 2025

As the Toyota Foundation commemorates the 50th year anniversary since its foundation, it has created a dedicated website for its 50th year anniversary projects.

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 first part of this interview series, Ms. Shiori Sakai was interviewed for an article about her projects granted under the category of the Research Grant Program in fiscal 2017–"A Phenomenological Research Toward the Formation of New Concepts to Understand the Experience of Chronic Illness: A different perspective from medical cure or management".

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

The Toyota Foundation