Japanese businessman and engineer who redirected his family's automatic loom manufacturing business into automobile production, founding what became Toyota Motor Corporation and establishing Japan's first major mass-production car manufacturer. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founded the automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works that became Toyota Motor Corporation in 1937.
Source Wikipedia: Kiichiro Toyoda
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His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacturing into automobile manufacturing created what later became Toyota.
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