Toyota opens new engine factory in Fukuoka Pref.

Toyota opens new engine factory in Fukuoka Pref.

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe (R) shakes hands with Akiyoshi Watanabe, president of Toyota Motor Kyushu Inc. -- a wholly owned unit, after a news conference in Kitakyushu on April 18. K. Watanabe is on a visit to Kitakyushu to commemorate the completion of a new engine factory in Kanda, Fukuoka Prefecture, Toyota's first domestic engine plant in a location other than its home turf of Aichi Prefecture.

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