Toyota Motor Corporation was founded on 28 August 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as an independent company, after starting as an automobile division of his father Sakichi Toyoda's loom manufacturer, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. It is based in the city of Toyota, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. After the Second World War the company developed the Toyota Production System, a method of reducing waste and improving quality, which became known as lean manufacturing and was studied around the world. Toyota grew into one of the largest carmakers, with models like the Corolla and Camry, and pioneered hybrid vehicles with the Prius, launched in 1997. It became a leading global automaker, rivaled only by a few other manufacturers.
Before and after
- from July 1937 to April 1945Construction of Buchenwald concentration camp
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 September 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 July 1937Marco Polo Bridge incident
- 20 July 1937Death of Guglielmo Marconi
- 28 August 1937Founding of Toyota
- 8 September 1937Bloudan Conference
- 21 September 1937Publication of The Hobbit
- 11 October 1937Birth of Bobby Charlton
- 19 October 1937Death of Ernest Rutherford
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