Thanks for reading Hyperdrive, Bloomberg’s newsletter on the future of the auto world. Koji Sato weathered many ups and downs during his first year as Toyota chief executive officer.

Toyota Motor Corp. is seeing its best performance ever in the first year under a new chief executive, since Koji Sato took the reins last April. Shares of the world’s largest automaker have ...

Koji Sato, the new president of Toyota Motor Corp., was a car nut from the word go. He was obsessed with cars as a child and majored in mechanical engineering at Tokyo’s Waseda University.

The Highlander is reportedly moving to an all-electric configuration, which will lead to a Lexus variant called the TZ.

Koji Sato, a 53-year-old who is also president of Toyota's luxury brand Lexus, will become the new CEO, the company said. The current chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada will drop his chairman title but ...

Toyota is a leader in hybrids, which have both a gasoline engine and electric motor, and Sato stressed that different markets have varying powertrain needs, with emerging markets being slower to ...

Toyota CEO Koji Sato visited the North Carolina General Assembly Thursday to celebrate the Japanese automaker’s ongoing construction of a battery manufacturing plant at the Greensboro-Randolph ...

The number of koji spore factories, meanwhile, has shrunk by a third over the last 100 years. Sato blames a shrinking market caused by the country's shift to a Western diet as well as the issue ...