Marriage of Japanese giants: The fifth-generation "Prince" of the Toyota family married Japan's "Little Hepburn"

Many people must remember such an advertising slogan "There must be a road in front of the mountain, and there is a Toyota car when there is a road". The reason why Toyota can have such a domineering advertising slogan is because it is supported by the Toyota family, a wealthy family. The Toyota family has been inherited for five generations, and has accompanied Toyota in its ups and downs for more than 80 years. The Toyota family is proud of Toyota, and Toyota has given the Toyota family a place in the ranks of Japanese giants. In order to unite the powerful and expand their careers, Japanese giants pay attention to generations of marriages. The Toyota family is no exception. This is true from the first to the fifth generation. In particular, it has been married for several generations with the Japanese giants of the Mitsui family. Now, the fifth-generation "Prince" of the Toyota family has married the wealthy eldest "Little Hepburn" Xing Lantong. Although this "Little Hepburn" is not from the Mitsui family, the family strength is not ordinary in Japan.

Audrey Hepburn's Star Orchid Hitomi

The career development of the Toyota family

The rise of a family is inseparable from the appearance of an outstanding person. This extraordinary figure in the Toyota family is named Toyota Sakichi . This person is extremely intelligent, creative, innovative, and inventing. In the 19th century, Sakichi Toyoda became a famous "inventor" in Japan. One of his best inventions was the creation of the weaving machine, which was patented. Subsequently, he single-handedly created a cotton mill with tens of thousands of employees. These employees are quite loyal to the Toyota family, conscientious and hardworking, without any selfishness. This is mainly influenced by Mikawa Samurai culture. The Toyota family is located in Aichi Prefecture (formerly Mikawa). Tokugawa Ieyasu, the general who finally won the world during the Warring States Period, came from the famous Mikawa Samurai in Japan. The samurai culture here places particular emphasis on absolute loyalty to the family.The loyal cultural thought of has always been rooted in the brains of the local people, and the Toyota family that stretches here is inevitably influenced by this culture.

Toyoda Sakichi

Because the employees are absolutely loyal, and the members of the Toyota family are also absolutely responsible for these employees, the cotton spinning mill is developing in full swing, and the business is quite booming, showing a thriving scene. At this time, Sakichi Toyoda's only hope was to continue to develop and expand his cotton mill. However, after his son Kiichiro Toyoda returned from a study tour in Europe and the United States, Sakichi Toyoda and his son had new ideas.

The textile machine developed by Sakichi Toyoda

Kiichiro Toyoda was born in 1894. After graduating from university, he came to his own "Toyota Boshoku Co., Ltd." as a mechanic. Father Sakichi Toyoda would never let his son be a mechanic for life. He has his own ideas: first, let the son who graduated from college hone and hone more; second, he is familiar with the operation process of the cotton spinning factory through personal experience.

Kiichiro Toyoda

Kiichiro Toyoda lived up to his father's expectations. With his knowledge and hard work, he quickly met his father's expectations. In order to further enhance his son's knowledge and ability, Sakichi Toyoda sent his son to Europe and the United States to inspect the textile machine business. Unexpectedly, the foreign textile machine did not arouse the interest of Kiichiro Toyoda, but attracted another object. When he saw cars running on the streets of foreign countries, he was instantly stunned by the sight, and a bold idea came to his mind.

After the Cadillac

of the 1920s and 1930s returned to China, Kiichiro Toyoda told his father Sakichi Toyoda that the car must be an important means of transportation in the future, and he should seize the opportunity to produce "Made in Japan" cars.Toyoda Sakichi listened to his son's advice, and also aroused his love of innovation and invention, he decided to go all out to support his son. Of course, he also has an ideal: the Toyota family makes the Japanese's own cars. This is an epoch-making event, which will bring the Toyota family to a higher level and will surely go down in history. At that time, with the strength of the Toyota family, it was still difficult to invest in the new industry of research and manufacture of automobiles. At this time, in order to complete this ideal as soon as possible, Toyoda Sakichi thought of the Mitsui family who had been helping him.

Takayoshi Masuda, the chairman of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., who has been helping Toyota Sakichi.

At the beginning, the Mitsui family not only invested in Toyota Sakichi's cotton textile factory, but also brought their children into the Toyota family. Formerly known as Kodama). Toyoda Toyosaburo is not only the son-in-law of Toyoda Sakichi, but also his adopted son. Therefore, Toyoda Toyosaburo has become a member of the Toyota family and is greatly appreciated by his father-in-law. With the close relationship between the Toyota family and the Mitsui family, as the largest trading and investment company that ruled Japan at that time, it was only natural for the wealthy Mitsui family to invest in the Toyota family's auto industry. At the same time, the wife of Kiichiro Toyoda is the daughter of the president of high-end department store Takashimaya. Kiichiro Toyoda received another investment from his father-in-law. As long as there is money, it is just around the corner for Kiichiro Toyoda to make Toyota cars. Because, he inherited his father's gift of invention and creation, and will devote himself to the research and manufacture of automobiles.

Toyota Toshiaburo

At this time, Toyoda Sakichi was very old, but he was very pleased: his son Kiichiro Toyoda was good at invention and his son-in-law Toyoda Toyosaburo was good at business management. The son and son-in-law join forces, from the manufacture of Toyota cars to the operation and management of the enterprise, there will be no worries.In 1930, when the 63-year-old Sakichi Toyoda was dying, he called his son Kiichiro Toyoda and his son-in-law Toyosaburo Toyoda, and told them to work hard to make Japanese cars. Unexpectedly, he did not entrust the power of the family business to his biological son Kiichiro Toyoda, but to his son-in-law Toshiaburo Toyoda. He knows that when it comes to inventions and creations, a son-in-law is not as good as a son, but when it comes to running a business, a son is not as good as a son-in-law. For the long-term development of the company, Sakichi Toyota handed over the baton to his son-in-law.

Toyota Sakichi Memorial Hall

When Toyoda Sakichi was alive, he was in charge, and there was no major conflict between his son and his son-in-law. When Sakichi Toyoda passed away and his son-in-law took the position of the company's president, although as his father-in-law had expected, this man was indeed a good businessman and a well-informed entrepreneur, he was often self-righteous and short-tempered. As a result, he and his brother-in-law Kiichiro Toyoda have different opinions on many issues. In 1933, at the repeated request of Kiichiro Toyoda, brother-in-law Tosaburo Toyoda agreed to set up the Toyota Loom Automobile Department in the company for free. As can be seen from the name, Toyota Motor at this time was also affiliated with the Toyota Boshoku Airport founded by Toyota Sakichi. The research and development site of the Toyota Loom Automotive Division is located in a simple factory warehouse in Kariya City, Aichi Prefecture.

The research and development site of Toyota Loom's Automotive Department.

In April of the same year, Kiichiro Toyoda quietly bought a new Chevrolet car from the United States. His automotive team took the car to pieces and immersed itself in . It only took two years, and by 1935, the automobile department completed the trial production of manned cars and trucks respectively. He believes that "poor Japan needs cheaper cars. It is his responsibility to produce cheap cars."

Toyota Trucks

In 1937, the automobile department became independent, and Toyota Motor Industry Co., Ltd. was officially established. As the company's president, Toyoda Toyoda Rizaburo naturally became the first president of Toyota Motor, but the real management of the automobile department was still the elder brother Kiichiro Toyoda. Therefore, after the death of his brother-in-law Tosaburo Toyoda, Kiichiro Toyoda naturally served as the second president of the Toyota Motor Company founded by him. Sakichi Toyoda is known as the first generation of Toyota people, his son Kiichiro Toyoda and his son-in-law Toyoda Rizaburo is known as the second generation of Toyota people, that is, in the hands of the second generation of Toyota people, the huge Toyota automobile empire was officially established. The surname Mitsui is the most closely related to it.The chaebol ruled by the Mitsui family ranks first among the four monopoly chaebols in Japan, and its strength is quite strong, and its history can be traced back to the 17th century.When Japanese people talk about their own enterprises, they always say it casually. "Mitsubishi Mitsui". Because they invest not only in many companies, but also very famous. Toyota is no exception. As we said above, there is investment from Mitsui & Co. , and even Toyota Sakichi's cotton spinning factory also has funds from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Support.

The business cooperation between the two families has also promoted the marriage of the two families. The younger brother of Kazuzao Kodama, the manager of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Furuya branch, joined the Toyota family and married the eldest daughter of Sakichi Toyoda as his wife. Changed his name to "Toyota Tosaburo" and served as the first president of Toyota Motor. After Toyoda Tosaburo died, his elder brother Kiichiro Toyoda became the second president of Toyota. The relationship between the Toyota family and the Mitsui family did not have the slightest because of Toyoda Tosaburo's death. The two families still maintain a close relationship in career and marriage.

The spectacular Mitsui Main Building in Tokyo, Japan

In 1950, after Toyota's second president, Kiichiro Toyoda, retired, Toyota was taken over by Ishida Takusan of the Toyota Automatic Loom Factory, and Mitsui Bank dispatched Fujio Nakagawa as a special manager. When Ishida retired, the handover baton from Toyota Motor Corporation passed to Nakagawa Fukiman. He is the second Mitsui person to sit on the throne of Toyota president after the first president Toyosaburo Toyoda, and he also becomes the fourth president of Toyota.

Until 1967, Toyoda Sakichi's nephew and Toyoda Kiichiro's cousin Toyoda Eiji served as the fifth president. In 1982, the third generation of Toyota people officially returned, and Toyoda Kiichiro's eldest son, Toyoichiro Toyoda, served as Toyota's sixth president. Shoichiro Toyoda is handsome and compelling, and he married Hiroko Mitsui, the daughter of the former chairman of Mitsui Bank, Mitsui Takacho. This is the second marriage between the three generations of the Toyota family and the Mitsui family.

Toyota's fifth president Eiji Toyoda

After the daughter of the Mitsui family married Shoichiro Toyoda, the son of the Toyota family, the two had a pair of children. His son's name is Akio Toyoda, who is now the president of Toyota. Akio Toyoda's wife is also from the Mitsui family. She is Yuko, the daughter of former Mitsui & Co. Vice President Tian Yuanshou. Akio Toyoda became the link between the Toyota family and the Mitsui family in business and marriage, and his identity was extremely special. Therefore, it is reasonable for him to take back the power of Toyota in the hands of foreigners. As the fourth generation of Toyota, Akio Toyoda returns to the family business. The Japanese media at the time raved about what they saw as the return of Japan's most iconic business to orthodoxy. The media even used the words "return to the great policy" . In 2009, Akio Toyoda, 53, was appointed as Toyota's eleventh president.

Toyoda Shoichiro's mother (first from the left) is Takashimaya daughter, his wife is Hiroko Mitsui (first from the right), with a pair of children

Although the Toyota family members only have 2% of the shares in the company. But the powerful marriage between the Toyota family and the Japanese giants makes it very influential. The wife of Kiichiro Toyoda is the daughter of the president of Takashimaya, a high-end department store in Japan, the wife of Akio Toyoda is the daughter of the former director of Mitsui Bank, and the wife of Akio Toyoda is the daughter of the former vice president of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. This marriage between the rich and powerful has consolidated the status and strength of the Toyota family. At the same time, the members of the Toyota family are not only shrewd and capable, but also inherit the family culture of low-key, hard-working and economical. As a Toyota employee commented: "Toyota people must be better than ordinary people." Because the Toyota family owns only a small stake in the company, the world trusts them. " I admire the Toyota family, and I hope so. Even if I don't have any shares, people will still say Cao Dewang, you should be the chairman, then I will be really happy. This is a kind of charisma, no matter how much gold is exchanged. Things that don't come."

Cao Dewang

The marriage of the fifth generation "Prince" of the Toyota family

Like other Japanese families, Toyota also implements the "primogenous inheritance system", that is, most of the family's property is passed on to the eldest son . Although the eldest son has various responsibilities to the younger brothers and can arrange for the younger brother to work in the enterprise, he must not share part of the property with them by virtue of blood relationship.

Akio Toyoda not only inherited the property of his father Akio Toyoda, but also became the eleventh president of Toyota. In 2009, Akio Toyoda, 53, became the president of Toyota. Twelve years later, he is 65 years old.Although, he is still in charge of Toyota, but his age is not forgiving and his energy is limited. Therefore, the issue of successor has also been put on the agenda. In the more than 80 years of ups and downs that Toyota has gone through, the power has been alternated in the hands of Toyota family members and foreigners, but as the current head of Toyota, Toyoda Akio still hopes that his family can take control of Toyota.

Akio Toyoda

His goal has long been selected, but it has always been cultivated in secret. This person is his son, Toyota's "Prince" Daisuke Toyota. Akio Toyoda and his wife Yuko have a son and a daughter, but the two children have kept a low profile and have not appeared. It was only last year that a real-life photo of the prince appeared. He and his father Akio Toyoda were both sitting in the racing car, and they were very similar in terms of eyebrows, expressions and movements. As you can see from the photos, Daisuke Toyota loves racing cars as much as his father. 's father, Akio Toyoda, loved racing cars all his life. It is said that only in the strong roar of the racing engine can he completely relax his body and mind, find a sense of freedom, and temporarily forget his identity as the fourth-generation eldest son of the Toyota family.

Father and son who love racing

In the summer of 2009, in the 24-hour Nurburgring in Germany, one of the world's top rallying competitions, Akio Toyoda, then 53 years old, wore a black racing suit and was extremely stable. Sitting in a pearl black Lexus IS300. At the beginning of the race, he moved quickly and skillfully, constantly adjusting the steering wheel, pressing the clutch left and the accelerator right, galloping on the track, throwing his opponent behind.

Akio Toyoda and his beloved racing car

The so-called tiger father has no dog son, and the blue is better than the blue. Daisuke Toyota, 32, not only loves racing like his father, but also formed his own racing team to participate in the Japanese Super Enduro. And Akio Toyoda not only cultivated his son Daisuke Toyota's interest in cars, but also built his son's education path according to his own trajectory. Akio Toyoda graduated from the famous Japanese school Keio University , and then studied in the United States. Received an MBA from Bapson University in Boston in 1982 and worked as an investment banker and consultant in New York and London. Likewise, Daisuke Toyota is almost following in his father's footsteps. He also went to the United States after graduating from Keio University, where he graduated from Bapson University in Boston, and then worked in the United States for a while. Akio Toyoda's intention is obvious, that is, he wants to train his son into a future successor.

Toyota Daisuke's speech

Toyota Daisuke is better than his father Akio Toyoda. Fortunately, his father returned to Toyota from the United States at the age of 27. He started from the bottom as a trainee and spent 26 years in Toyota before he sat down. Take the number one spot for Toyota. Now 32-year-old Toyota Daisuke has served as the senior vice president of Toyota's TRI-AD, focusing on artificial intelligence and autonomous driving research and development. Although has its own abilities and ambitions, the more important thing is that my father cultivated it intentionally.

The handsome Daisuke Toyota

After Akio Toyoda became the president, he focused on reducing corporate costs and re-advocated a frugal corporate culture at Toyota. He made it clear that Toyota executives are not allowed to travel in first class when traveling in Japan and business class when traveling overseas. Now, unlike in the past, after Daisuke Toyota took office as senior vice president, his office in Tokyo is located in a place where land is expensive. It is full of robots, AI, and autonomous driving, as if to usher in a new era. Inside, employees and bosses travel by scooters.

Toyota Daisuke and employees

In addition to Toyota's identity as "Prince" and "future successor", which has attracted great attention from the outside world, the marriage of Toyota Daisuke has made the media even more curious. Many people speculate that Daisuke Toyota's marriage should also be related to the Mitsui family like his predecessors, which once again created the myth of the marriage between the Toyota family and the Mitsui family. However, as a new generation of Toyota people, Toyota Daisuke did not follow the old path of his ancestors in terms of marriage. He did not intend to marry the daughter of the Mitsui family, but unexpectedly walked with a female star. This makes many people puzzled. Could it be that the "Prince" of the Toyota family has abandoned the tradition of combining powerful families and marriage between giants. Some media quickly pointed out that this is not an ordinary story of a rich man marrying a female star. Because, the identity of this female star is not ordinary.

Actress

This person is called Xing Lantong, and the media calls her " Takarazuka actress". Because Hitomi Xing Lan was admitted to Takarazuka Music School in 2013 and received training here. Takarazuka Music School is the pinnacle of Japanese music performance schools. It has a very high admission threshold and a very low admission rate. Only 40 new students are admitted each year. Xinglan Hitomi not only entered the Takarazuka Music School, but also entered the Takarazuka Theater. Entering the Takarazuka Theater is not only much more difficult than entering the Takarazuka Music School, but the tuition fees are not affordable for ordinary families.

Xing Lantong's cool dress

After Xing Lantong entered the troupe, she had a thin body, a small face, deep eyes, a high nose bridge, an elegant temperament, and a bit of mixed-race appearance. She was very similar to Audrey Hepburn. attracted the attention of many people. After , she was called the Little Hepburn of the Takarazuka Theater. With her own efforts and unique temperament and appearance, was promoted to starring three years later. In the Japanese drama "Qian Duan Qing Begins", he partnered with the famous movie star Haruma Miura and played his ex-girlfriend.

Xing Lantong's slender figure

As Xing Lantong continues to appear in TV dramas, she often shoots on the street. Her life experience and life moments were quickly exposed by the media. She started in kindergarten and studied at Gakushuin in both junior and senior high schools. Gakushuin is not an ordinary school. That's where the Japanese royal family studied, from princes to princesses graduated from there. Therefore, the rich are also scrambling to send their children in. There is a tuition fee of at least 1 million yen per year. Xing Lantong was sent here by her family to study, and she was a classmate with Japanese princess Kako for 14 years. This kind of child who has followed the route of the rich family eldest since childhood, it can be seen that Xing Lantong's family background is definitely not ordinary.

The super cute Xing Lantong

Afterwards, Xing Lantong's residence was also revealed. She lives in the Tokyo port area, which is a place where the rich gather, known as the platinum area. Since the Japanese giants pay attention to the right match, some people say that the people of the port area only marry the people of the port area. Just when the media tried to dig further into the life experience of this "Takarazuka Little Hepburn", suddenly, Xing Lantong announced his withdrawal from the Takarazuka Theater. This made many people puzzled, because Xing Lantong was only 26 years old, and it was the stage of career advancement, and the Takarazuka Theater was the best place to cultivate stars. The old goddess Tenkai Yuki , Dadi Maou, Kuroki Hitomi, Liangfeng Maji and Yiyi Mahui are all from Takarazuka Theater.

Tian Haiyouxi

The reason for Xing Lantong's withdrawal from the group was quickly revealed. It turned out that it was all for love. Her other half is Daisuke Toyoda, the "Prince" of the Toyota family, and only a man with this status is worthy of Xing Lan Hitomi's choice to quit the Takarazuka Theater, which everyone admires. Daisuke Toyota and Hitomi Xinglan met in February last year. At that time, he went to see the Takarazuka stage play starring Hitomi Xing Lan with his friends. Offstage, after a private chat, the two learned that they were both very interested in cars.Because of the same interests, the two also had a topic of communication, and soon began to formally communicate. After 8 months of acquaintance, Xing Lantong announced his official withdrawal from the group. Subsequently, Toyota Motor officials announced the marriage. So far, many people still do not believe that the "Prince" of the Toyota family, Daisuke Toyoda, will simply marry a female star. The curiosity of netizens allowed them to further dig into the life experience of the female star. In the end, they found out that Hitomi Xing Lan's real name is Yoshihara Mayu, who is suspected to be a family member of Idemitsu Sazo, the founder of "Idemitsu Kosan", who is also the eldest lady of Japan's second largest oil company.

Toyota Daisuke and Xinglan Hitomi

At this time, netizens realized that the Toyota family did not jump out of the circle of wealthy marriages and powerful alliances. The fifth-generation "Prince" of the Toyota family will marry the wealthy eldest "Little Hepburn", which will once again stage the integration of the Japanese chaebols. The Toyota family is often referred to as another Japanese royal family, and to be able to marry such a royal family is destined to pay attention to the right match and equal strength.