Who We Are
Toi is a non-profit Social Bridge Fund working at the intersection of culture, education,welfare, and mental health—areas that shape human dignity.
We address the friction that arises between people, practice, research, and systems.
Through catalytic funding and long-term partnership, we reconnect cycles that too often break.
Since 2025, our primary focus has been preventive mental health, beginning within educational settings.
Our Purpose
Toi exists so that people do not have to stop moving forward—even when facing uncertainty or hardship.
We connect research evidence, lived practice, and institutional systems, and design the conditions that allow courageous initiatives to continue and grow.
The Problem
Every day, many people confront difficult realities. Yet some barriers cannot be removed by individual effort alone.
In Japan’s educational landscape:
Approximately 350,000 elementary and junior high school students are chronically absent (FY2024, MEXT; rising for 12 consecutive years)
529 students across elementary, junior high, and high school died by suicide in 2024 (MHLW / National Police Agency)
More than 7,000 teachers take leave annually due to mental health conditions (FY2024, MEXT)
Knowledge exists. Effort exists.
What remains insufficient are the pathways that carry insight into practice.
In an age where information and decisions move at unprecedented speed, space for trial-and-error—and for pause—continues to shrink. Stress accumulates in the body and in the fabric of relationships.
What goes unheard today shapes parent-child relationships three years from now. The social climate of today determines the choices available to children ten years from now.
Surface-level responses do not create lasting change.
Perception. Relationship. Body.
Only when these foundations are aligned can support begin to sustain itself.
What We Support
1. Aligning perception
Making the sources of friction visible. When we can see it, we can work with it.
2. Redesigning relationships
Translating research into the language of the field— and building mechanisms that help relationships move.
3. Stabilizing the body
Recognizing reactive patterns and cultivating the capacity to pause. When the body stabilizes, the quality of choice improves.
4. Sustaining conditions
Through funding and partnership, we help these cycles keep operating in the field.
Our Vision
Reweaving the relationship between people and society— toward a world where we can truly “be” together.
News
2026年
April 19 (Sun) 10:00 AM (JST)
April 18 (Sat) 9:00 PM (ET, New York)
EASE Program Online Study Session
Learn WHO/UNICEF’s preventive mental health program with Prof. Adam Brown (The New School, NY).
