Toyota Chief's Tears
Win Support In Japan
TOKYO, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Toyota Motor
Corp. President Akio Toyoda's tearful public
appearances during and after his
Congressional testimony in the U.S. won
sympathetic votes in Japan on Friday as
images and sound bites of the media-shy
executive continue to monopolize headlines.
Following Toyoda's Congressional hearing at
which he apologized and assumed full
responsibility for the series of events and
lapses in judgment that led to the recall of
8.5 million vehicles globally, a tearful
Toyoda addressed local Toyota employees.
"For me, when the cars are damaged, it is as
though I am as well, he said," his voice
shaky and full of remorse.
"At the hearing, I was not alone. You and
your colleagues across America and around
the world were with me," he said with tears
welling in his eyes.
It was this image the Yomiuri Shimbun,
Japan's top newspaper by circulation, used
on the front page of their evening edition.
Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda (C) testifies at a
hearing before the U.S. House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol
Hill in Washington D.C., capital of the
United States, Feb. 24, 2010. Akio Toyoda
apologized Wednesday before a U.S. Congress
committee investigating Toyota's deadly
flaws that sparked the recall of 8.5 million
cars. |
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