Toyota's Tatsuro Toyoda, DEAD @ 88

Created the Toyota Motor Corporation and led Toyota’s Global Expansion including building the first plant in the United States.  American educated, he brought an egalitarian company environment, to that point unheard of in the US, to automotive manufacturing.  His first US plant was a joint venture with General Motors and in partnership with the United Auto Workers Union (UAW). 

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