Toyota to promote Akio Toyoda to top job in June

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Toyoda, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Corp., poses between vehicles at the Toyota Automobile Museum in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture. Toyota has decided to promote Toyoda, a member of the company's founding family, to president in June, marking the first time in 14 years that a member of the family will take the helm of the nation's largest automaker. (Pool photo taken May 2008 by Kyodo News)

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