Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda was elected Tuesday to head the Automobile Business Association of Japan amid hopes ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Takeshi Uchiyamada, the "father of the Prius," will step down as an executive fellow following the general shareholders meeting in June and become a senior adviser, Toyota Motor ...

Takeshi Uchiyamada, chairman of the Board of Directors of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), has highlighted the significance of Crown Prince Salman's state visit to Japan, adding that the royal visit ...

On January 23rd, 2000, the episode "Lesson 18: How to Dine and Dash" [1] of Great Teacher Onizuka aired in Japan. In the episode, the character Hiroshi Uchiyamada drives his new car, a Cresta, as he ...

Toyota Canada Newsroom Releases Toyota Chairman Uchiyamada, Father of the Prius, Foresees Long Run for Hybrids Every effort has been made to ensure the product specifications, equipment, and content ...

According to two senior executives, the possible appointment is a boardroom shuffle that should do little to lessen president Akio Toyoda's grip. A final decision to appoint Takeshi Uchiyamada (66) to ...

Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada served as the “trigger” in the decision by Akio Toyoda to step down as company president and hand over the baton to a much younger executive.

Toyota Motor Corporation announced Thursday that current president and CEO Akio Toyoda will step aside and become chairman as part of a leadership shakeup. In a statement, the company said ...

The man in charge of G21 was engineer Takeshi Uchiyamada, now chairman of the entire Toyota Motor Corporation. Today, Uchiyamada is sitting in a brown-tinged boardroom high up in Toyota's Nagoya ...

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Automakers will be hard-pressed to make money if the world moves too fast toward electric vehicles, Toyota Motor Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada suggests. Toyota and such ...

Battery-powered cars with a long range are very expensive and it takes a long time to charge them,” Takeshi Uchiyamada was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel. “Such cars do not fit in our program.” ...