
Business / Corporate | Taking the Lead Apr 15, 2018
Hands-on Toyota exec passes down monozukuri spirit
by Shusuke Murai
Mitsuru Kawai drops by a bathhouse for factory workers at Toyota Motor's headquarters in Aichi Prefecture each day before work. After washing, the 70-year-old executive dons a helmet and heads for its noisy forging plant instead of his corporate office suite. There, he passes on ...