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European Cars Seek China Jumpstart
Apr 20th, 2009 - Forbes
Scarred European carmakers are looking for a remedy to boost falling demand, and China may be it. Auto chief executives at the Shangai auto show highlighted on Monday the country’s crucial role as a market to drive a recovery in sales.

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Tokyo Motor Show 2007 Interview Katsuaki Watanabe, Toyota (by UPTV)
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Market Report - Toyota Temporarily Closes Plants
, already plans a shutdown of domestic plants for three days this month. President Katsuaki Watanabe told Reuters Tuesday at a New Year's party that Toyota is just adapting to current global conditions. [Katsuaki Watanabe, President ...
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Toyota iReal Demonstration
Trio of iReal personal electric mobility devices demonstrated at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, including video of Toyota president Katsuaki Watanabe. ... ev electric toyota tokyo watanabe ireal i-real
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The New Luxury Lexus: DigInfo
Tech news from Japan. Toyota released their fourth generation Lexus (LS), focusing on emotively engaging the driver, at the New National Theatre Tokyo on the 19th of September 2006.We spoke to Toyota Motor Corporation President, Katsuaki Watanabe and Chief Engineer Moritaka Yoshida ...

Katsuaki Watanabe from WikiPedia:

Katsuaki Watanabe (????, Watanabe Katsuaki?) (born February 13, 1942) is vice chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. He was president and CEO of the company before Akio Toyoda assumed those positions on June 23, 2009.

Watanabe, who earned a degree in economics from Tokyo's Keio University, joined Toyota upon graduating from that university in 1964. He has gained experience in a broad range of activities at Toyota, primarily in corporate planning and administrative affairs. Watanabe became the general manager of the secretarial division in 1988 and moved to the Corporate Planning division as general manager in 1989.

In his work as general manager of the Corporate Planning division, Watanabe participated in charting and articulating a common, long-term vision for Toyota operations around the world. Named to the Board of Directors in 1992, he continued to supervise work in production control, including supervising Toyota's Motomachi Plant, which makes passenger cars. In 1999, Watanabe was appointed senior managing director, after which he assumed the position of executive vice-president in 2001. In June 2005 he became president and CEO of TMC, succeeding Fujio Cho.