Toyota confirmed it would put as much as $10 billion into the U.S. over the next five years to boost local operations, after Donald Trump flagged that the carmaker planned such an investment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/13/companies/toyota-us-10-billion-investment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #cars #investments #donaldtrump #batteries #electricvehicles

Elliott Investment Management has been building a large stake in Toyota Industries and has told the group company that its proposed ¥16,300 per share buyout offer is too low, people familiar with the matter said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/11/companies/elliot-toyota-buyout-low/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #elliottinvestmentmanagement #toyotaindustries #toyota #acquisitions

Japanese automakers warned that President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs will cost them billions in lost profits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/08/companies/japan-automakers-billions-tariff-losses/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #cars #carmakers #toyota #honda #nissan #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs

Auto giant Toyota has hiked its operating income and net profit forecasts for the current fiscal year despite the impact of U.S. tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/05/companies/toyota-profit-forecasts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #tariffs #us #manufacturing

Japan's corporate governance reforms are being tested by Toyota's controversial ¥4.7 trillion bid to take its affiliate, Toyota Industries, private. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/05/japan/toyota-buyout-tests-japans-reforms/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #abenomics #tico #toyota #japaneseeconomy #acquisitions #mergers

Toyota Motor has no plans to sweeten a deal involving a proposed ¥4.7 trillion ($31 billion) buyout of Toyota Industries, CEO Koji Sato said, rebuffing widespread criticism of a planned privatization bid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/30/companies/toyota-ceo-toyota-industries-buyout-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #kojisato #toyotaindustries

China’s BYD, the world’s largest EV manufacturer, is hogging the spotlight at the Japan Mobility Show with its electric minivehicle model developed exclusively for the Japanese market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/29/companies/japan-mobility-show/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #carmakers #japanmobilityshow #byd #honda #toyota #nissan #cars #electricvehicles #hybrids

Toyota plans to ship vehicles produced at its U.S. plants to Japan, according to a document on an investment framework between Japan and the United States released by the U.S. government on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/29/companies/toyota-car-imports-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #usjapanrelations #us #cars #toyota #trade

Toyota has managed to achieve overall growth, despite volatility in China and trade tensions brought on by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/27/companies/toyota-global-sales-first-half/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #cars #carmakers

A planned management buyout of auto parts maker Pacific Industrial sparked a backlash from one of its investors, pressuring the Tokyo Stock Exchange to provide more protection for minority shareholders in such deals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/08/companies/toyota-mbo-backlash-investors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #tse #pacificindustrial #stocks

Toyota Motor has amassed a growing after sales and service operation that keeps 150 million of its vehicles on roads around the planet, with the business poised to become the company’s biggest source of profit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/08/companies/toyota-after-service-top/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #carmakers #electricvehicles

Toyota Motor Chairperson Akio Toyoda’s proposal to buy out Toyota Industries for ¥4.7 trillion has been delayed because the approval process under antitrust laws in various countries is taking longer than anticipated. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/07/companies/toyota-industries-delay-buyout/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #akiotoyoda #toyota #carmakers #acquisitions #toyotaindustries

Toyota Motor plans to install 500 more high-speed chargers for electric cars at dealerships in Japan — a goal that falls short of a pledge it made to install 10 times that number. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/30/companies/toyota-more-ev-chargers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #electricvehicles #cars #carmakers

Toyota’s record sales run, including steady growth in China and North America, has lost steam after a sharp drop back home in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/29/toyota-global-sales-slow/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #toyota #cars #carmakers

With more and more Formula One drivers debuting in their teens or early 20s, a rookie in their 30s would seemingly be a pipedream. Don’t tell that to Ryo Hirakawa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/28/more-sports/ryo-hirakawa-chasing-f1-dream/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #ryohirakawa #worldendurancechampionship #toyotagazooracing #toyota #formulaone #haas

Amid a global motorsports boom, the World Endurance Championship on Sunday celebrated its 100th race at Shizuoka Prefecture’s Fuji Speedway. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/28/more-sports/wec-momentum/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #worldendurancechampionship #shizuoka #cars #carmakers #toyota #bmw #tech

Toyota has opened the doors to the first phase of Woven City, its experimental town meant to act as an incubator for technologies from autonomous driving to artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/26/companies/toyota-opens-woven-city/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #wovencity #carmakers #electricvehicles #shizuoka #tech

Nagoya-based GomunoInaki, which supplies rubber components to Toyota and Denso, is betting on an unlikely new growth engine: menstrual cups. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/16/toyota-suppiler-menstrual-cup-prodution/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #gomunoinaki #toyota #menstruation

Toyota Motor has introduced a five-stage internal qualification system for maintaining quality at vehicle certification test sites and developing related human resources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/companies/toyota-qualification-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mlit #toyota #carmakers #fraud

Toyota manufactured and sold a record number of cars in July, stretching the carmaker’s streak to a seventh consecutive month, on strong demand in the U.S. and China despite global trade uncertainties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/28/companies/toyota-record-sales-seven-months/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #toyota #cars