Sakichi Toyoda was a Japanese inventor and industrialist. He was born in Kosai, Shizuoka. The son of a farmer and sought-after carpenter, he started the Toyoda family companies. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, would later establish Japan's largest automaker, Toyota. Toyoda is referred to as the "King of Japanese Inventors".
Sakichi Toyoda
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, producing about 10 million vehicles per year.
Headquarters in Toyota, Japan
The mass-produced Toyoda automated loom, displayed at Toyota Museum in Aichi-gun, Japan
The 1936 Toyota AA, the first vehicle produced by the company while it was still a department of Toyota Industries
Toyopet Crown, the first vehicle fully designed and built by Toyota