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Sakichi Toyoda. Kiichiro Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田 喜一郎 とよだ きいちろう, Hepburn: Toyoda Kiichirō, June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) was a Japanese businessman and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing created what ...
Feb 14, 2023 · TOKYO (AP) — Shoichiro Toyoda, who as a son of the company’s founder oversaw Toyota’s expansion into international markets, has died. He was 97. Toyoda, the company’s honorary chairman ...
- Toyoda Loom Works and Toyota Motor Corporation
- Early Life
- Expanding to Automotive Industry
- Toyota Motor Corporation and War
- Retirement and Death
Kiichiro Toyoda persuaded his father, who was responsible as head of the family business, to invest in the expansion of Toyoda Loom Works into a concept automobiles division; of which was considered a risk to the family business at the time. Shortly before Sakichi Toyoda died, he encouraged his son to follow his dream and pursue automobile manufact...
Childhood
Toyoda was born on June 11, 1894, in Yamaguchi in the village of Yo*su in Shizuoka Prefecture, *an (currently Yamaguchi, Kosai, Shizuoka), the eldest son of Sakichi Toyoda and Tami Sahara. Before Kiichiro was born, Sakichi stayed in Toyohashi. At the time, Sakichi came to Yo*sumachi to give a name to Kiichiro. However, after Sakichi named Kiichiro, he soon returned to Toyohashi. Also, less than two months after his mother, Tami, gave birth to him, she left him and her husband. She did so beca...
After graduating university
After graduating, Toyoda returned to his hometown, Nagoya, and joined Toyota Boshoku, which was founded by his father, Sakichi, in 1918 (Sakichi served as company president since then). From July 1921 to February 1922, Kiichirō visited San Francisco, London, Oldham (a large town in Greater Manchester, England), etc. to learn about the spinning and weaving industry and then returned from Marseille via Shanghai. After he returned to *an, in December 1922, he married Hatako Iida, the daughter of...
He is a key figure in paving the way for the *anese automobile industry, and without him, today's *anese automobile industry might have been less developed. The automobile industry plays a very important role in supporting the *anese economy. The number of automobiles produced in *an dramatically increased from 70,000 to 11.4:million between 1955 a...
Labor dispute
Despite the strong promotion of management rationalization measures, the company's business performance never recovered. The reason is, on October 25, 1949, GHQ issued a "Memorandum on the total removal of restrictions on the production and sale of automobiles". As a result, the production and sale of automobiles became free in principle, but about the supply of production materials, the allocation and distribution system by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry remained, and the p...
After retiring from the role of president, he created a laboratory at his home in Okamoto, Setagaya, Tokyo, and worked every day to design a small helicopter. On March 27, 1952, Toyoda died after suffering a fall resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage caused by chronic disease. He was 57 years old.
Feb 14, 2023 · TOKYO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Shoichiro Toyoda, the son of Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) founder and father of current chief executive Akio Toyoda, died on Tuesday of heart failure, the company said. He ...
Our founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, inherited the spirit of being studious and creative from his father Sakichi. At the beginning of the Showa Period (1926-1989), when Japan was poor, wanting to make the country prosperous like the United States and Europe through conscientious manufacturing was a desire common among many that can be said to reflect the spirit of the times.
Kiichiro Toyoda – A Chronicle. Chapter 1: From the time of his birth, to his school days. Chapter 2: Spinning looms research and development. Chapter 3: Beginning research into automobile manufacturing. Chapter 4: Stepping stones towards entering the auto industry.
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Feb 14, 2023 · Shoichiro Toyoda, former President of the Toyota Motor Corporation and Honorary Chairman, reportedly died on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. According to Toyota, the cause of death was heart failure. He was 97 years old. Dr. Toyoda was the son of the company’s founder, Kiichiro Toyoda. He led the company into United States automotive manufacturing and…
