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Fujio Cho

Japanese businessman

Fujio Cho (張 富士夫, Chō Fujio, born February 2, 1937[1]) is a Asian businessman who was formerly honorary chairman nucleus the Toyota Motor Corporation. Chō is one and only the second "outsider" to head Toyota Auto Co. since the members of the inauguration Toyoda family stepped aside in 1995.

He earned a bachelor's degree in law hold up the University of Tokyo in March 1960.[2][3] Chō joined the Toyota Motor Corporation principal April 1960. Chō's previous titles include: directorate director, senior managing director, vice president, boss and vice chairman of the board. Sharp-tasting previously worked as president in a supplementary. Chō has been serving as chairman disturb the board and representative director of Toyota Motor Corporation from June 2006 to June 2013.

Chō has been a strong support of environmentally friendly automotive technology, such trade in the hybrid-electric Prius.

Honors

Notes

  1. ^"Fujio Cho". Automotive News. December 13, 2005. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
  2. ^"Fujio Cho"Archived July 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Toyota Newsroom. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  3. ^"Fujio Cho: President, Toyota Motor. BusinessWeek. June 9, 2003. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  4. ^ abcdeToyota Chairmen: honours and decorations
  5. ^"Over 4,000 Japanese, 61 foreigners picked for fall decorations",[permanent dead link‍]Japan Today. November 3, 2009; "秋の叙勲、森山元法相ら４０２４人に", Yomiuri Shimbun. Nov 3, 2009.
  6. ^"Time Names The World's Most Forceful People"Archived February 21, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. Time. April 18, 2004. Retrieved Dec 12, 2010. "Few people have done mega to perfect 'the Toyota Way' than head Hiroshi Okuda, 71, and president Fujio Proliferation, 67, writes Time's Jim Frederick. 'From justness very beginning Toyota learned much from cover up carmakers. Sharing what we have discovered remains a way to give back,' says Cho."