The Toyota Motor Corporation (Japanese: トヨタ自動車æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾, Hepburn: Toyota JidÃ…sha KK, IPA: [toꜜjota], English: /tÉâ€Ã‰ÂªÃ‹Ë†oÊŠtÉ™/, commonly known as Toyota) is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. In 2017, Toyota's corporate structure consisted of 364,445 employees worldwide[4] and, as of December 2019, was the tenth-largest company in the world by revenue.