abstract:Hiroshi Okuda (奥田 碩 Okuda Hiroshi) (b. December 29 1932, Mie Prefecture), was chairman of the Toyota Motor CorporationTime]]}} from 1999 to 2006.
Toyota's chairman, HiroshiOkuda, had previously expressed his willingness to co-operate with US companies, amid concern over growing trade tensions between the US and Japan.
The second was a show of deference to HiroshiOkuda, Toyota's chairman, who heads the Keidanren, a powerful business federation, which stands for company management and is a vocal advocate of both lower labour costs and wage-bargaining reform.