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Risaburo Toyoda (豊田 利三郎, Toyoda Risaburō [1], March 5, 1884 – June 3, 1952) was a Japanese entrepreneur. He was the son-in-law of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd founder Sakichi Toyoda, and brother-in-law of Toyota Motor Corporation founder, Kiichiro Toyoda (豊田 喜一郎, Toyoda Kiichirō, June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) His original surname was Kodama (児玉).
On June 3, 1952, a little more than two months after Kiichiro's death, Risaburo Toyoda, the first president of Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., died at the age of 68. Eiji recalls his death: Risaburo was already ill and bedridden at the time of Kiichiro's death and was not able to attend the funeral.
Akio is the great-grandson of company founder Rizaburo Toyoda. Sato had previously run Lexus, Toyota's luxury car brand. The change is set to take effect on April 1, 2023.
Risaburo Toyoda, Sakichi's son-in-law, was named President. Kiichiro Toyoda was Managing Director. As stated in Toyoda Automatic Loom Works' Articles of Incorporation, in addition to the manufacture and marketing of spinning and weaving machinery, a major objective of the company “shall be pursuing related invention and research.”
- 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, 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 manufacturi...
Childhood
Toyoda was born on June 11, 1894, in Yamaguchi in the village of Yoshitsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (currently Yamaguchi, Kosai, Shizuoka), the eldest son of Sakichi Toyodaand Tami Sahara. Before Kiichiro was born, Sakichi stayed in Toyohashi. At the time, Sakichi came to Yoshitsumachi 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...
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 Japan, in December 1922, he married Hatako Iida, the daughter...
He is a key figure in paving the way for the Japanese automobile industry, and without him, today's Japanese automobile industry might have been less developed. The automobile industry plays a very important role in supporting the Japanese economy. The number of automobiles produced in Japan dramatically increased from 70,000 to 11.4 million betwee...
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 hemorrhagecaused by chronic disease. He was 57 years old.
Risaburo Toyoda (born March 5, 1884) was a Japanese entrepreneur. He was the son-in-law of Toyota Industries Co., Ltd founder Sakichi Toyoda, and brother-in-law of Toyota Motor Corporation founder, Kiichiro Toyoda. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University (then Tokyo Koto ShogyoGakko).
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Feb 6, 2007 · The following is an overview of some of those individuals who not only created the Toyota Production System, but the "DNA" that has allowed those ideas to be successfully passed down through the decades. Sakichi Toyoda. Sakichi Toyoda was born in 1867 in the city of Kosai in Shizuoka Prefecture.
