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    Eiji Toyoda (豊田 英二, Toyoda Eiji, 12 September 1913 – 17 September 2013) [1] was a Japanese industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman. [2] He was succeeded as the president of Toyota by Shoichiro Toyoda .

  2. Sep 17, 2013 · Sept. 17, 2013. TOKYO — Eiji Toyoda, who as a member of Toyota Motor’s founding family and an architect of its “lean manufacturing” method helped turn the automaker into a global ...

  3. Born in 1913 in Nagoya, Japan, Toyoda attended the University of Tokyo and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1936. After graduation, he began working for his cousin Kiichiro at the family company, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. Kiichiro had recently established an automotive division within the company, and transferred Eiji to ...

  4. Sep 18, 2013 · A giant of the auto business died yesterday, a few days after he turned 100. Eiji Toyoda was president and later chairman of Toyota. The family name is T-O-Y-O-D-A. Toyoda played a key role in the ...

  5. May 17, 2018 · Eiji Toyoda. Eiji Toyoda (born 1913) was a former chairman of Toyota Motor Company. His family-run business made revolutionary changes in the way automobiles were made. Eiji Toyoda, the man who was in the driver's seat of the Toyota Motor Company for over 25 years, is virtually unknown outside of Japan's Toyota City, headquarters of "the ...

  6. Sep 17, 2013 · TOKYO (AP) — Eiji Toyoda, a member of Toyota's founding family who helped create the super-efficient "Toyota Way" production method, has died. He was 100. Toyoda, a cousin of the Japanese automaker's founder Kiichiro Toyoda, died Tuesday of heart failure at Toyota Memorial Hospital in Toyota city, central Japan, Toyota said in a statement. Eiji Toyoda served as president from 1967 to 1982 ...

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  8. Sep 17, 2013 · He was 100. Toyoda, a cousin of Toyota's founder, Kiichiro Toyoda, died Tuesday of heart failure at Toyota Memorial Hospital in Toyota city, central Japan, Toyota said in a statement. Eiji Toyoda ...

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