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The French-German TV channel Arte showed a documentary titled Alt in Japan (literal translation: "Old in Japan") on 6 November 2006 dealing with older workers in Japan. In 2008, karoshi again made headlines: a death back in 2006 of a key Toyota engineer who averaged over 80 hours overtime each month was ruled the result of overwork. His family ...
Toyota was also forced to pay a total of $66.2 million in fines to the Department of Transportation for failing to handle recalls properly and $25.5 million to Toyota shareholders whose stock lost value due to recalls. Nearly 400 wrongful-death and personal injury cases were also privately settled by Toyota as a result of unintended acceleration.
Toyota is recalling thousands of older model vehicles over a potentially deadly issue that can cause the airbags to explode. The affected models include the 2003-2004 Corolla and Corolla Matrix ...
Toyota said it was recalling another 19,000 vehicles over a software problem that means “the rearview image may not display within the period of time required by certain US safety regulations ...
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]
In 1950, Toyota was split into Toyota Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Sales Co. (sales arm of Toyota); the two companies merged in 1982 to create one unified company, with then-Toyota Motor Co. President Eiji Toyoda becoming chairman. Chairmen listed prior to 1982 below were for the pre-merger Toyota Motor Co. only. [114] [115] Rizaburo Toyoda (1937 ...
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Shoichiro Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田 章一郞, Hepburn: Toyoda Shōichirō, February 27, 1925 – February 14, 2023) was a Japanese business executive who served as chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation from 1992 to 1999, [1] as well as chairman of the influential Japan Business Federation (日本経済団体連合会, Nippon Keidanren) [2] from 1994 to 1998. [3]