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Why the largest automaker is Toyota and not Toyoda

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Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda. Photo/REUTERS

Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda. Photo/REUTERS 

By Kathryn Westcott   (email the author)
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Posted  Tuesday, March 2  2010 at  00:00

In 1959, the city of Koromo, in the Aichi Prefecture, was renamed Toyota City, after the company that aided its growth in terms of job creation.

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