Yoshio Ishizaka
Advisor, Toyota Motor Corporation
Yoshio Ishizaka joined Toyota in 1964 on earning a degree in law from Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University. His career has centered on overseas business, and he has served two extended stints at Toyota operations outside Japan: six years in Australia in the late 1970s and four years in the United States in the late 1980s.
Mr. Ishizaka served as senior vice president and chief coordinating officer of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. from 1986 to 1990, while helping to develop the special project that became the Lexus Division. He then became general manager of the Europe division at Toyota in 1990. In that position, he supervised accelerating efforts to build an integrated, local organization in Europe to support expanded manufacturing, marketing, and product development there |
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