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Contents
1 Top Messages
1 Chairman’s Message Fujio Cho, Chairman
2 President’s Message Akio Toyoda, President
4 Message from the Executive Vice President Yoichiro Ichimaru, Executive Vice President
7 Toyota Management Team
8 Performance Overview
10 The Right Way Forward
Toyota is dedicated to excellence in manufacturing in order to provide high-quality
at affordable prices based on our commitment to the Customer First
and
genchi genbutsu (on-site, hands-on experience) philosophies.
We will continue to focus on the challenge of making even better cars
that are appealing to customers around the world.
17 Business Overview
The Year in Review / Automotive Operations / Financial Services Operations /
Other Business Operations / Motorsports Activities
25 Management & Corporate Information
Corporate Philosophy / Corporate Governance / Risk Factors / R&D and Intellectual Property /
R&D Organization / Production Sites / Overseas Manufacturing Companies / Toyota Milestones
41 Financial Section
108 Investor Information
Cautionary Statement with Respect
to Forward-Looking Statements
This annual report contains forward-looking statements that reflect
Toyota’s plans and expectations. These forward-looking statements
are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
Toyota’s actual results, performance, achievements or financial
position to be materially different from any future results,
performance, achievements or financial position expressed or
implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include:
(i) changes in economic conditions and market demand affecting,
and the competitive environment in, the automotive markets in
Japan, North America, Europe, Asia and other markets in which
Toyota operates; (ii) fluctuations in currency exchange rates,
particularly with respect to the value of the Japanese yen, the U.S.
dollar, the euro, the Australian dollar, the Canadian dollar and the
British pound; (iii) Toyota’s ability to realize production efficiencies
and to implement capital expenditures at the levels and times
planned by management; (iv) changes in the laws, regulations and
government policies in the markets in which Toyota operates that
affect Toyota’s automotive operations, particularly laws, regulations
and government policies relating to trade, environmental protection,
vehicle emissions, vehicle fuel economy and vehicle safety, as well as
changes in laws, regulations and government policies that affect
Toyota’s other operations, including the outcome of future litigation
and other legal proceedings; (v) political instability in the markets in
which Toyota operates; (vi) Toyota’s ability to timely develop and
achieve market acceptance of new products; and (vii) fuel shortages
or interruptions in transportation systems, labor strikes, work
stoppages or other interruptions to, or difficulties in, the employment
of labor in the major markets where Toyota purchases materials,
components and supplies for the production of its products or where
its products are produced, distributed or sold.
A discussion of these and other factors which may affect Toyota’s
actual results, performance, achievements or financial position is
contained in Toyota’s annual report on Form 20-F, which is on file
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Redesigned Prius (May 2009)