Akio Toyoda Great-grandparents: Sakichi Toyoda, Tami Sahara
Japanese businessman and current president of Toyota Motor Corporation Akio Toyoda was born on May 3, 1956. He is the great-grandson of Japanese industrialist Sakichi Toyoda and the grandson of Kiichiro Toyoda, the father of Toyota Motors, and Shinshichi Iida, the father of Takashimaya Department Stores. When Katsuaki Watanabe was demoted to Vice-Chairman following the…
Japanese businessman and current president of Toyota Motor Corporation Akio Toyoda was born on May 3, 1956. He is the great-grandson of Japanese industrialist Sakichi Toyoda and the grandson of Kiichiro Toyoda, the father of Toyota Motors, and Shinshichi Iida, the father of Takashimaya Department Stores.
When Katsuaki Watanabe was demoted to Vice-Chairman following the quality control crisis, Akio Toyoda was the leading candidate to take over the family business. After completing his legal studies at Keio University in Japan, Toyoda earned a master’s degree in finance from Babson College in Massachusetts. In 1984, he joined the family business.
Akio Toyoda Great-grandparents: Sakichi Toyoda, Tami Sahara
Sakichi Toyoda is the founder of Toyoda Automatic Loomworks. Ikichi Toyoda is his father. Since the days when Akio Toyoda’s carpenter-farmer great-great-grandfather, Ikichi Toyoda, taught his son fabrication and carpentry, Toyoda’s family line has dominated the upper management of the family businesses. Information about Tami Sahara is not known.
