Rizaburo Toyoda
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was a Japanese entrepreneur. He was the son-in-law of
Toyota is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is the List of manuf ...
Industries Co., Ltd founder
Sakichi Toyoda was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (later Toyota Industries). The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later establis ...
, and brother-in-law of
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is the List of manuf ...
founder, His original surname was Kodama (児玉). He graduated from
Kobe University , also known in the Kansai region as , is a public research university located in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. The university was established in 1949, but the academic origins of Kobe University trace back to the establishment of Kobe Higher Commercia ...
(then ''Kobe Koto Shogyo Gakko'') and
Hitotsubashi University , formerly known as , is a national university, national research university in Tokyo, Japan. Often regarded as Japan’s foremost institution for the study of the social sciences, particularly commerce, economics, law, political science, sociolog ...
(then ''Tokyo Koto Shogyo Gakko'') .In 1939, he became the first president of the Toyota Motor Corporation.豊田利三郎 とよだ りさぶろう デジタル版 日本人名大辞典+Plusの解説
Japanese) He died at the age of 68 in 1952.


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Sakichi Toyoda was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (later Toyota Industries). The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later establis ...
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Kiichiro Toyoda 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 later became Toyota. Toyoda Loom Works and ...
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Shoichiro Toyoda was a Japanese business executive who served as chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation from 1992 to 1999,ToyotaHonorary Chairman as well as chairman of the influential from 1994 to 1998. Under Toyoda's leadership, Toyota started manufacturing ...


References

# Shirouzu, Norihiko. "Toyota Family Member Vies for the Top Job," ''Wall Street Journal.'' December 24, 2008. # International Directory of Business Biographies: Shoichiro Toyoda # Shirouzu, Norihiko and John Murphy. "Toyota to Change Leader Amid Global Sales Slump." ''Wall Street Journal.'' December 24, 2008. # Kubo, Nobuhiro and Chang-Ran Kim. "Toyota confirms Akio Toyoda as New President," Reuters. June 23, 2009. 1884 births 1952 deaths 20th-century Japanese businesspeople Rizaburo Toyota people Hitotsubashi University alumni Mukoyōshi {{Japan-business-bio-stub