TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Toshiba Corp forecast on Friday a hefty 63% rise in annual operating profit after pandemic-induced pain in the last year and as restructuring measures bear fruit. The conglomerate, under much scrutiny amid calls for a strategic review after it dismissed a $20 billion buyout bid, said it is projecting 170 billion yen ($1.6 billion) in operating profit for the year to end-March. That compares with a consensus estimate of 179 billion yen drawn from 13 analysts polled by Refinitiv. For the year just ended, Toshiba posted an 20% slide in operating profit to 104.4 billion yen. ($1 = 109.5200 yen) Reporting by Makiko Yamazaki; Editing by Edwina Gibbs Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.