page_title: Tatsuo Hasegawa
section_title: Toyota
hierarchical_section_title: Tatsuo Hasegawa / Toyota
caption_attribution_description: First Generation Toyota Corolla.
context_page_description: Tatsuo Hasegawa was a Japanese automotive engineer, and known as the development chief of the first Toyota Corolla. He built the base of the economy cars in Japan through the development of the Corolla and the Toyota Publica.
context_section_description: He lost job by the end of the war because Japan was prohibited to manufacture the airplane under control of the General Headquarters (GHQ) of General Douglas MacArthur, but, in next year, Hasegawa was employed by Toyota which was recruiting engineers at that time.
  After he joined Toyota, Hasegawa was involved in the development of the Toyopet Crown as the sub-chief (fuku-Shusa) of the development to support his chief (Shusa), Kenya Nakamura.
  At the development for the Crown, the Shusa (product manager) Organization was introduced first time. It is considered that this system referred to the Chief designer system of the fighter development.
  Afterwards, he led the developments of the first generation models of Toyota Publica, Sports 800, Corolla, Celica and Carina, as the chief (Shusa). He also was involved in the Toyopet SKB truck, the precursor to the Toyota Dyna
  He was promoted to the general manager of the product planning office and senior director, and retired from this industry in 1982.
caption: The first generation of the Toyota Corolla.
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