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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 Production System. The Toyota Production System (TPS) is an integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its management philosophy and practices. The TPS is a management system [1] that organizes manufacturing and logistics for the automobile manufacturer, including interaction with suppliers and customers.
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 Industries Corporation (株式会社豊田自動織機, Kabushiki gaisha Toyota Jidō Shokki (English "Stock Company Toyota Automatic Loom")) is a Japanese machine maker. Originally, and still actively (as of 2023), a manufacturer of automatic looms, it is the company from which Toyota Motor Corporation developed. It is the world's ...
Toyota Automobile Museum. The Toyota Automobile Museum (トヨタ博物館, Toyota Hakubutsukan) is a large museum showcasing the history of Toyota as an automobile manufacturer. In addition to displaying its own vehicles that Toyota has manufactured over the years, numerous vehicles from other manufacturers of various makes are also being ...