One lesson became very important to him: Americans, he discovered, wanted Japanese quality--especially Toyota quality.
Jin Ho Cho was born August 16, 1975.
Jin Ho Cho is 6 feet tall. He weighs 175 pounds. He bats right and throws right.
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John Cho
Fujio Cho was born on 1937-02-02.
Japanese
Fujio Cho
http://www.toyota.com
Toyota Motor Corporation
Dr. Taiichi Ohno, who would dramatically change the destinies of both Cho and Toyota.
Toyota Motor Corporation, 1 Toyota-cho, Toyota, Aichi 471, Japan
President and chief executive officer, Toyota Motor Corporation
Tokyo University, law degree, 1960
Cho was much more affable, personable, and low-key than the blunt-spoken Okuda.
In 1999 Okuda retired, and Cho became the second consecutive nonfamily Toyota president.
From Okuda, Cho would learn that cars needed to be designed more quickly and with more freedom given to the designers at the production stage. Toyota was too centralized a company