Akio Toyoda safeguards family’s legacy while looking to Toyota’s future

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda stands in a suit in an office lobby with his hand on a loom and a car in the background. — Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda, next to the Type G loom in the automaker's Tokyo office March 25, credits the 1925 start of mass production for the weaving machine as a key turning point for Toyota's automaking empire. (HANS GREIMEL/AUTOMOTIVE NEWS)

April 27, 2025 10:00 AM

TOKYO — To hear Chairman Akio Toyoda tell it, the year 1925 was just as special for the Japanese juggernaut Toyota Motor Corp. as it was for Automotive News.

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