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 ...

The city where these developments will take place is named in honor of Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota. Toyoda originally invented an automatic loom to make the weaving process easier for ...

He used to attend every year the annual ceremony to celebrate the achievements of Sakichi Toyoda, his grandfather and founder of Toyota Group. The ceremony is held on Oct. 30, the anniversary of ...

Toyota’s beginnings were humble. Shoichiro Toyoda ’s grandfather, Sakichi Toyoda, invented the automatic loom in a backyard shed, mainly because he wanted to help his mother, who often was ...