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Mar 11, 2021
A school bell rings and excited giggles and the patter of rubber-soled shoes echo down the corridor as Shinichiro Hiratsuka, principal of Midoridai Junior High School in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, sits in his office picking over memories of the past decade.
They start on March 11, 2011, when he was stranded at his then-workplace in nearby Ishinomaki, unable to contact his wife, Naomi, or return to his home, normally a 20-minute drive away, due to the havoc caused by the earthquake and tsunami that struck earlier in the afternoon.
Four days would pass before he learned that the eldest of their three children, 12-year-old Koharu, was missing, and another five months until they found her. She was one of 74 pupils at Okawa Elementary School who perished during the 3/11 disasters.
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Toyota Times: Beyond Automotive: Woven Planet Group Takes Off
In January 2021, Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD) reached a new milestone in officially re-organizing into the holding company, Woven Planet Holdings. Within the holding company, Woven Planet consists of three operating companies-Woven Core, Woven Alpha, and Woven Capital. The companies continue to be responsible for developing advanced technologies such as automated driving, and are responsible for the Woven City project scheduled to begin construction on February 23
rd (Mt. Fuji Day).
At an opening event held on January 29
th, the heads of the Woven companies talked about the vision and role of each business.
Toyota s Woven Planet holds $800 million for investment in new tech
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TOKYO Woven Planet, Toyota s high-tech spinoff, has established a $800 million investment fund to cherry pick up-and-coming technology companies around the world.
The fund, named Woven Capital, was outlined Jan. 29 in a kickoff event for the Woven Planet venture that included an overview of the new company s upcoming products and strategies. Among the announcements was the Feb. 23 groundbreaking for its Woven City town of tomorrow.
James Kuffner, the American CEO of Woven Capital and a director at Toyota Motor, outlined the company s ambitions in an online briefing from Woven s headquarters in downtown Tokyo.