As boss of Toyota, Okuda was an enthusiastic advocate for the pioneering hybrid.

Hiroshi Okuda, who has died aged 93, was the Toyota executive responsible for the launch of the hybrid Prius, which took the ...

Hiroshi Okuda moved the Prius timeline up by a year, doubled Toyota's U.S. sales, and changed the auto industry forever.

Hiroshi Okuda, the former chief executive of Toyota, who led the Japanese automaker’s stellar rise in global markets, has ...

As the car company’s president, he made decisions quickly and shook things up, expanding overseas manufacturing and ...

Okuda became president of Toyota in 1995, the same year the Prius debuted as a low-emission gas/electric hybrid concept at ...

Hiroshi Okuda, who served as president and then chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died. He was 93.

Toyota's governance model of appointing nonfamily executives continued for three successive administrations, starting with ...

Hiroshi Okuda is often credited with turning Toyota into a global titan of automakers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

TOKYO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Former Toyota Motor Corp Chairman Hiroshi Okuda, who has died aged 93 according to Kyodo News, was a rare outsider at the top of a firm more often run by a founding-family ...

Hiroshi Okuda, who led Toyota Motor Corp. as president and chairman during a period of global expansion in the late 1990s and early 2000s, died Tuesday, according to Japan's Kyodo News. He was 93.

Hiroshi Okuda, who served as president and then chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died.