BookTitleToyota Tsusho 70-Year History

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Toyota Tsusho 70-Year History

firms of the Toyota Group competed to plan a conversion to using the materialsand technologies they possessed to meet civilian demand and established manysubsidiary companies. To meet civilian demand, Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. madebicycle pumps and electric stove tops and stoves; Kariya Machine Works (laterToyoda Machine Works and currently JTEKT Corp.) made hand-turned mills; andKariya Shatai Co., Ltd. (currently Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.) produced metaland wood products for the occupation forces. Subsidiaries established includedthe zinc mining company Hoei Tangyo, the woodworking company KokkaWoodworks, and the retail company Hoyu Shoji.Toyota Sangyo decided on and implemented the following policies to ensure theprocurement of raw materials and to develop the sales channels necessary for theproductionandsaleofciviliangoods:- The organization will be made up of four departments, General Affairs,Accounting, Sales, and Overseas. They will have branch offices in Tokyo,Osaka,andKyoto.- The Sales Department will be the responsibility of Managing Director TojiroOkamoto, who will also be in charge of the sales, development, and materialsdepartment. To enhance sales, Kiichiro Toyoda, Hisayoshi Akai, Taizo Ishida,RisaburoOshima,andTakatoshiKanwillserveassalesadvisors.- Automobiles and spinning and loom machinery will be marketed by ToyotaMotor Co., Ltd. and Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, but the Sales Departmentof Toyota Sangyo will market the new products of both of those companies aswell as those of Toyota Steel Works, Toyoda Machine Works, Tokai Hikoki,and Kariya Shatai.Based on this, items such as (1) Manufacture, sales, and import of generalproducts and (2) Broker, agent, and wholesale, etc., were added to ToyotaSangyo’s Articles of Incorporation.Electric stove top made by Toyota Motor Co.,Ltd. Kariya Minami plant around 1946Hand-turned food grinder made by KariyaMachine Works (currently JTEKT Corp.) around19484 Change of DirectorsFrom November 1945 into 1946, there was an exchange of officers at ToyotaSangyo. On November 30, 1945, Kiichiro Toyoda became a part-time director andAuditor Tomiyasu Kambara resigned to take up a position at Aichi Steel (renamedfrom Toyota Steel Works). On December 10, Hisayoshi Akai passed awayToyota Steel Works (currently, Aichi Steel) Kariya plantHistory43