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This list shows the richest Japanese citizens by net worth, based on the list published by Forbes annually. 2022 ... Toyoda family: US$1 billion: Toyota Motor ...
Shoichiro Toyoda. Akio Toyoda (豊田 章男, Toyoda Akio, born 3 May 1956) is a Japanese business executive who is the chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. He was previously the company's president and chief executive officer (CEO). [ 1 ] Toyoda is a great-grandson of the industrialist, Sakichi Toyoda, and a grandson of both the founder of ...
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 ...
Toyota Motor Corporation (Japanese: トヨタ自動車株式会社, Hepburn: Toyota Jidōsha kabushikigaisha, IPA: [toꜜjota], English: / tɔɪˈjoʊtə /, commonly known as simply Toyota) is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August ...
Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉, Toyoda Sakichi, March 19 (the 14th of the 2nd month in East Asian Lunar Calendar), 1867 – October 30, 1930) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist. He was born in Kosai, Shizuoka. The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later ...
Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent and separate company in 1937. Although the founding family's name was written in the Kanji "豊田" (rendered as "Toyoda"), the company name was changed to a similar word in katakana - トヨタ (rendered as "Toyota") because the latter has 8 strokes which is regarded as a lucky number in East Asian culture. [3]
Kyoho kai group – Auto parts company – 211 companies. Kyouei kai group – Logistic/facility company – 123 companies. KDDI (Toyota owns 11.09% of the company); Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Toyota owns 34.6% and is the largest single shareholder in the company; 36.9% of the stock are directly and indirectly (through TV Asahi Holdings Corporation) owned by the Asahi Shimbun Company, making ...
Fujio Cho. Fujio Cho (張 富士夫, Chō Fujio, born February 2, 1937[ 1 ]) is a Japanese businessman who was formerly honorary chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation. Chō is only the second "outsider" to head Toyota Motor Co. since the members of the founding Toyoda family stepped aside in 1995. He earned a bachelor's degree in law from ...