is a Japanese retired business executive who served as

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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...

between 1992–1999,Toyota
Honorary Chairman
as well as chairman of the influential beginning in May 1994 through May 1998. Under Toyoda's supervision, Toyota approved the development of the Lexus brand and the Prius hybrid.

Toyota

Son to the company founder, Toyoda, in 1952, joined his father's business at Toyota Motors. In ten years, he had risen to the position of managing director. He was promoted to senior managing director in 1967, executive vice president in 1972, and president of the Company's marketing organization in 1981.MCADCafé
"Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda To Receive SAE Foundation's 2005 Manufacturing Leadership Award,"

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. March 15, 2005. The merger of the sales and production organizations in 1982 produced Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyoda became the new entity's first president. The disparate nature of the two distinct corporate cultures required his attention, and the extent to which the "oil and water" of these two Toyota groups were merged successfully was attributed in large part to his leadership. He served as chairman from 1992 to 1999; and he became honorary chairman in 1999. Toyoda's leadership would be integral to the global introduction into popular culture of the Lexus brand of luxury automobiles and environmentally focused Prius engine electric hybrids.

Professional recognition

* 1980 – Deming Prize, Japan. * 1993 – International

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* 2000 – FISITA Medal of the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies * 2005 – Society of Automotive Engineers Foundation's Manufacturing Leadership Award,

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. * 2007 – Induction into the Automotive Hall of Fame, Detroit, MI, USA

National honours (Japan)

* 1972 –

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(Dark Blue Ribbon) * November 1984 –

(Blue Ribbon).Toyota Chairmen: honours and decorations
/ref> * 1984, 1985 –

(Dark Blue Ribbon). * April 1995 – Grand Cordon of the

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. * April 2002 –

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. * November 2007 – Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers

Other national honours and decorations

* May 1986 – Grand Cross of the Order of Antonio Jose de Sucre of Venezuela * September 1990 – Knight Commander of the

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* April 1991 – Commander of the Order of Leopold of Belgium * December 1991 – Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit of Colombia * 1993 – Economic Medal First Class of Taiwan * March 1995 –

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(KBE), UK. * September 1995 – Grand Cross of the

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. (Commander: October 1988) * March 1996 – Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul,

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. * February 1998 –

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. * June 1999 – Companion of the

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(AC) * November 1999 – ''Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Star'' for Services to the Republic of Austria. * March 2000 – Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic,

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. * May 2001 – Commander's Cross of the

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. * April 2004 – Commander's Cross with Star of the

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. * December 2004 – Knight Grand Cordon of the

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, First Class,

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. * March 2005 – Grand Officer of the

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of France. (Commander: April 1998 ) * May 2005 – Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Portugal (GCM) * August 2005 – Grand Cross of the Order of Juan Mora Fernandez, Placa de Plata of Costa Rica * September 2005 – Commander of the

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of Gabon * October 2007 – Knight Grand Cross with the Grand Collar of the

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. (Grand Officer: June 1998 ) * April 2010 – Grand Collar of the

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of the Philippines

Early life and education

Grandson to the founder of Toyoda Automatic Loomworks, and son to the Toyota Motors founder, Shoichiro Toyoda was born in Nagoya on February 17, 1925,International Directory of Business Biographies
Shoichiro Toyoda
/ref> to Kiichiro Toyoda and Hatako née Shinshichi Toyoda, the daughter of the Takashimaya department store chain co-founder, Iida Shinshichi. He attended the Tokyo First Middle School (

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) and First High School(

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), and graduated from Nagoya Imperial University (

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) in 1947 with a degree in Engineering BS. He would be awarded a PhD, by Tohoku University, in 1955. At the height of the pacific theater of World War II, the Toyoda family was affected on both family business and home fronts. Shoichiro's education would be delayed by his own conscription into civil service, and his father's business warrant to manufacture trucks for the imperial Japanese Army, of which his family's firm was spared destruction in the days before the Japanese government's surrender.

Family tree

Notes

References

* Basu, Shankar. (1999)
''Corporate Purpose: Why it Matters More Than Strategy.''
London: Taylor & Francis. * Hino, Satoshi and Andrew Dillon. (2006)
''Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth.''
Productivity Press.
OCLC 62127859

External links

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