NAGOYA -- Toyota Motor's honorary chairman and former president Shoichiro Toyoda died of heart failure on Tuesday, the Japanese automaker announced. He was 97 years old.
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Shoichiro Toyoda led the company for a long time when Japanese cars were a critical issue of Japan-U.S. trade frictions. (File photo by Reuters)
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