Tatsuro Toyoda, former head of Toyota, dies at 88

Tatsuro Toyoda, the former Toyota Motor Corp. president who led the company’s climb to become one of the world’s top automakers, died Dec. 30. He was 88. The cause was pneumonia, the Japanese automaker said. Other details were not disclosed. Mr. Toyoda, the automaker’s seventh president and son of the company’s founder, stepped down from the position in 1995, while continuing in other posts, such as adviser, a title he held until his death.

​Source: Washington Post