
Business / Corporate Oct 5, 2018
Twenty years in the making: The backstory behind the new Toyota-SoftBank joint venture
by Cory Baird
Appearing together at news conference on Thursday in Tokyo, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda and SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son recounted an episode 20 years prior that put the two at loggerheads over a proposed business venture. Fast forward 20 years and the ...