COMPANY PROFILE

Company name Toyota Konpon Research Institute Inc.
Established June 11, 1996
Capital JPY 100 million
Location Nishi-ku, Nagoya City
Inside the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology
Representative
Director 		Soichiro Okudaira
President Noboru Kikuchi
Directors Hiroyasu Watanabe
Tetsuro Toyoda
Hiroyuki Wakabayashi
Mamoru Oshita
Hirofumi Inoue
Audit & Supervisory Board Member Takahiro Takeda
Takashi Shimazu
Business details
  1. Research, investigation, and provision of technical information regarding future social predictions
  2. Research, testing, and investigation of humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, and comprehensive technologies based on those sciences
  3. Research, testing, and investigation regarding the development and use of science and technology, and the resulting effects and impacts
  4. Research, testing, surveys, and the training and development of researchers and engineers conducted through mutual contracting or jointly with countries, administrative agencies, organizations, and research institutions
Shareholders Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota Industries Corporation
Aisin Corporation
Denso Corporation
Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.
Aichi Steel Corporation
JTEKT Corporation
Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.
Toyota Tsusho Corporation
Toyota Boshoku Corporation
Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc.
Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
History
June 1996

Established the Genesis Research Institute in the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nishi-ku, Nagoya

May 1997

Opened the East Tokyo Laboratory in the Cluster Research Laboratory of the Toyota
Technological Institute, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture

March 2023

Closed the East Tokyo Laboratory

July 2023

Changed the company name to Toyota Konpon Research Institute with the aim of becoming a research institute where the world’s top diverse researchers gather

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