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Re: Once again, is this coming through
"Hachiroku ??????" <Trueno@AE86.gts> wrote in message
news:2218h.2570$mM1.1784@trndny08...[color=blue]
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:47:37 -0600, n5hsr wrote:[/color]
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> In 1937, the department was spun off and became an independent company
> inside the group, which continues to make textile machinery. The name of
> the new company was changed from Toyoda to Toyota - one you will probably
> hear if you go on one of the plant tours. The name "Toyota" for the
> company instead of the family name "Toyoda" for several reasons. First,
> Kiichiro Toyoda wanted to make a distinction between his family (private
> life) and his company (public life). In Japan, people count the number of
> strokes it takes to write kanji, hiragana or katakana. In katakana, it
> takes 10 strokes to write "Toyoda" and 8 strikes to write "Toyota". In
> Japanese, eight is a good number because the kanji used to write eight
> also has the meaning of "infinity".
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> [url]http://www.tundrasolutions.com/photopost/data/500/medium/toyotalogo2.JPG[/url][/color]
Besides automotive-related businesses, Toyota also imports wine from CA to
Japan for sale on passenger trains and carpet and building materials for use
in their pre-fabricated housing division. Toyota has a machine-tool
division, textile machine division that makes automatic looms, sewing
machines, and embroidery machines, and they used to be the Cessna
distributor in China.
--
Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)
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