Sakichi Toyoda was born in Japan 145 years ago today on February 14th, 1867. By all accounts a hard-working entrepreneur, Toyoda's greatest success was building a small business manufacturing ...

Back in 1925, long before the X-Prize foundation even existed, an inventor by the name of Sakichi Toyoda reportedly offered a prize of 1 million yen for the invention of a battery that would ...

One of the rarest Toyotas that you can find in the world is actually a tribute car. The Toyota Classic is a late 1990s homage to the 1936 Toyoda Model AA, the first passenger car built by the ...

Sakichi Toyoda, the story goes, founded a loom-making business on the strength of his ingenuity, his problem solver’s spirit.

Nearly 2,400 years later, Sakichi Toyoda—founder of Toyota—developed the concept of 5 Whys: When a problem occurs in a process, repeatedly ask "why" in order to unearth the root cause of the ...

A Brief History Of 5S 5S originated with Japanese inventor Sakichi Toyoda–the founder of Toyota who is also known as the “father of the Japanese industrial revolution.” ...