Tokyo: Eiji Toyoda, who helped steer Toyota Motor Corp's global rise and pioneered the automaker's vaunted production system, died on Tuesday, the Japanese automaker said. He was 100.

Toyoda, cousin of the automaker's founder, died of heart failure in Toyota City, the company said in a statement.
Toyoda, cousin of the automaker's founder, died of heart failure in Toyota City, the company said in a statement.

