Toyota Motor : Passing on the Philosophy of Being Human-Centered at Woven City

[We thought] 'Could we create some new value in Susono by investing in a high technology living laboratory to revitalize the Shizuoka area?'

Susono City recently celebrated its 50th anniversary and Toyota Motor East Japan grew up with Susono, and now the next generation will be able to grow up with Woven City.

So we consider all of the employees as co-founders of Woven City.

I would also like to comment on [the Toyota] Philosophy because I think our goal is to create technology to support a happy healthy human life. It is not technology to replace people, but to help unlock human potential.

I believe Sakichi [Toyoda] (who developed an idea of human-centered jidoka, automation with a human touch) would be proud of what we are trying to develop at Woven City.

And finally, although Toyota was a company born in Japan, it lives and grows in regions all over the world. I hope that Woven City, born in Japan, can contribute to the entire world [with] new technology to help humans everywhere.