The automaker's plants and production lines in Japan are scheduled to operate normally for the first time in seven months.

Demand for the popular utility vehicles has outstripped Toyota's capacity to produce them as the Japanese carmaker grapples with supply chain disruptions.

The Toyota Land Cruiser is so big in Japan that Toyota Motor Corp. is telling customers the wait for delivery has stretched to four years.

The new Crown's styling reflects market trends heavily favoring utility vehicles over sedans.

The veteran communications executive is back at the automaker after her shocking 2015 arrest in Japan on suspicion of drug possession, resignation and release 20 days later without being charged.

Toyota's leader is warning the government that its road map to net-zero emissions needs to be better tailored for the nation's economy.

To crack the code of building low-cost electric vehicles, Japan's automakers intend to leverage their skills at tried-and-true lean manufacturing and kaizen.

Newly appointed COO Sinead Kaiya is charged with making growth and sustainability a reality at Toyota Motor's autonomous-driving technology unit.

Japan's automakers are stoking R&D investment to meet mounting demand for a staggering array of technologies. Toyota by far outpaces the pack.

While GM and Hyundai reel from EV recalls, the Japanese automaker is pitching the safety and reliability of its own batteries as it joins the global EV battle with the bZ4X crossover.

Toyota's plans for a mixed-use futuristic city at the base of Mount Fuji include development of the Woven City as a hub for flying cars.

As Toyota prepares to get into the EV game, it expects big results from its move to a new global truck platform.

Toyota is expected to begin selling a Crown sedan in the U.S. this year, replacing the Avalon, and will bring a hybridized SUV to the U.S. under the nameplate in 2023 to replace the Land Cruiser.

The automaker is ready for takeoff in the brand-new world of electric air mobility. But for now, it is skipping further investment in a Japanese startup founded partly by its own engineers in favor of an American aerospace company focused on fast, quiet flying machines.

The Prius put Toyota on the map as green car hero No. 1 when the hybrid arrived in 1997. But with the fifth-generation redesign just around the corner, the Prius' hybrid drivetrain faces a test for relevance.

The company that pioneered the Prius hybrid has drawn criticism for perceived foot-dragging on EVs. But Akio Toyoda wants it known that his company is pursuing carbon neutrality.

Japanese carmaker financials show how the COVID pandemic and the chip shortage continue to challenge them — despite positive fundamentals.

Toyota boss Akio Toyoda had a big hand in testing and vetting his new namesake GR Corolla hot hatch, which will be go on sale this winter in Japan and be available on U.S. dealer lots next year as a 2023 model.

Keeping the flow of new Toyotas and Lexuses coming to U.S. dealers amid dozens of simultaneous threats falls to two executives who manage it all the Toyota way.

The Toyota bZ4X will be superior to anything similar in Toyota's lineup in terms of torque, acceleration, rigidity, interior space, grip, safety and styling — but not sales potential.

The executive who runs Mazda's newest assembly plant says there is lots to learn from Mazda's gargantuan Japanese partner, Toyota.

Toyota and Lexus dealers, who have been getting by for months with some of the leanest inventories in history, will see that trickle of vehicles dry up further.

"We're not trying to catch up" with domestic competitors, says Mike Sweers, the executive chief engineer for the automaker's trucks.

Toyota Motor North America's announced plans to build a battery plant may require the Japanese automaker to build another assembly plant in the U.S.

Akio Toyoda was once called the chief branding officer of Lexus. More recently, he goes by another moniker there: Brand Holder.