*anese businessman Hiroshi Okuda in 2005

Hiroshi Okuda (奥田 碩 Okuda Hiroshi) (born December 29, 1932, Mie Prefecture), is the former chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation from 1999 to 2006.

Overview

with Yasuo *uda (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on May 26, 2008)

He became president of Toyota in 1995 and has worked at the corporation for 50 years. In 1998, Okuda was selected as a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Strategy Council of *an and became chairman of the *an Federation of Employers' *ociations in 1999. He has also held the position of chairman of the *an Automobile Manufacturers *ociation since 2000. Okuda holds a 4th dan black belt in Judo and graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1955.

Okuda is credited with seeing the need for hybrid cars early and pushing Toyota towards quickly bringing them to market.

References

Joint ventures and
shareholdings

• KDDI & BT Global Solutions
• Natasha, Inc.
• Unity

Services

• au one net
• hikari one
• LISMO

Other

• Kazuo Inamori
• KDDI Building
• KDDI Designing Studio
• Hiroshi Okuda

• Category
• Commons