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Shoichiro Toyoda

1925-2023

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Shoichiro Toyoda was a Japanese automotive executive and son of Toyota Motors founder Kiichiro Toyoda. He is credited with the success of Toyota’s modern global expansion. 

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God longs to restore life to those lost in death because death is not his purpose for mankind. His purpose is everlasting life.

As a Toyota owner, I must say I love that car. Our deepest condolences to the family. We pray that God continues to strengthen and comfort the family during this difficult time.

Your legacy will live on around the world.

Made the Toyota company a success around the world.

Born in 1925 to a family of Japanese business titans, Shoichiro Toyoda joined his father’s growing automotive firm in 1952. The analytically-minded “Dr. Toyoda” – a nickname acknowledging Toyoda’s doctoral thesis on fuel injection – quickly rose through the ranks. When the company’s production and sales organizations merged in 1982, Toyoda was named as the first president of the new Toyota Motor Corporation, a title he held until 1992. Toyoda remained active in the company’s executive...

I offer my sincere condolences to the family of Mr Toyoda. What a beautiful legacy he has left for the world. May you have peace and comfort in your time of sorrow.

My Condolences to the family Mr. Shoichiro Toyoda

Heartfelt sympathies to the Toyoda family, may God help you all.

Thank you, Shoichiro. Blessing is deserved to those that follow your wisdom. My father, with glove factories in Fayette and in neighboring Moss Point, MS, my boss when he died at 102 in 2001, also ran his companies under Shoichiro's belief in "genchi genbutsu," or, the importance of seeing things firsthand. After his death, the sale of his glove business to Showa of Japan, has resulted in a continuation and expansion of American jobs, under management tied to his genchi genbutsu principals.