Shoichiro Toyoda, the honorary chairman who made Toyota Motor Corporation one of the world's leading automakers, has passed away.
he was 97 years old.
Mr. Shoichiro Toyoda is the eldest son of Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation.
In the following year, the so-called "manufacturing and sales merger" of the manufacturing division and the sales division, which had been separated due to the postwar financial crisis, was realized.
After that, as the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, which was born through a merger, he decided to build a plant in Kentucky, the United States, which was Toyota's first independent plant. developed.
Since becoming chairman of Toyota in 1992, he has also devoted himself to activities in the business world, serving as chairman of Keidanren for four years from 1994.
In 1999, he became the honorary chairman of Toyota and retired from the front line of management, but supported his eldest son, Akio, who became the president of Toyota.