Home > International Directory of Business Biographies > Shoichiro Toyoda Biography

• TOYOTA'S CROWN PRINCE
• SHOICHIRO CHAMPIONS TOTAL QUALITY CONTROL
• TOYOTA'S FIRST GLOBAL MANAGER
• SHOICHIRO'S MANAGEMENT STYLE
• TOYOTA EMERITUS: JAPAN'S GLOBAL CONSCIENCE
• SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Honorary chairman, Toyota Motor Corporation

Nationality: Japanese.

Born: February 17, 1925, in Nagoya, Japan.

Education: Nagoya University, BS, 1947; Tohoku University, PhD, 1955.

Family: Son of Kiichiro Toyoda (founder, Toyota Motor Corporation) and Hatako (maiden name unknown); married Hiroko Mitsui, 1952; children, two.

Career: Toyota Japan Motor Company, 1952–1961,...