Directorate Change

Toyota Motor Corporation
19 April 2006


                                 (Translation)

                                                                  April 19, 2006

To Whom It May Concern:

Company Name:

TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION

Name and Title of Representative:

Katsuaki Watanabe, President
(Code Number: 7203 Securities exchanges throughout Japan)

Name and Title of Contact Person:

Masaki Nakatsugawa
General Manager, Accounting Division
Telephone Number: 0565-28-2121


                         Toyota Names New Executives


TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announced today planned executive changes, as
described below.



1.      New Corporate Auditors (3 people) - Pending approval at this year's
        ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June.


                     Name                             New Title                  Current Title at TMC

Yoichi Morishita                                                                          -
Chairman,                                      Corporate Auditor
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Akishige Okada                                                                            -
Advisor,                                       Corporate Auditor
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Masaki Nakatsugawa                             Corporate Auditor        General Manager, Accounting Div.


2.      Retiring Corporate Auditors (3 people) - To retire on the same day as
        this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June.


                        Name                                          Current Title

Yoshiro Hayashi                                       Full-time Corporate Auditor

Hiromu Okabe
Chairman,                                             Corporate Auditor
Denso Corporation

Tadashi Ishikawa
Chairman,                                             Corporate Auditor
Toyota Industries Corporation

3.      New Managing Officers (8 people) - Pending approval at a board of
        directors meeting following this year's ordinary general shareholders' 
        meeting in June.


Name                                 Current Title (at TMC, unless noted)

Ryoichi Sasaki                 President, Toyota Motor Thailand Co., Ltd.

Seiho Kawakami                 General Manager, Chassis Engineering Div. 2

Yasuhiko Yokoi                 General Manager, LEXUS Domestic Sales & Marketing Div.

Takahiro Fujioka               Senior Executive Director, Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd.

Masanobu Kawase                Project General Manager, Technical Administration Div.

Yukio Nishikawa                Project General Manager, Tokyo Secretarial Div.

Hirofumi Muta                  General Manager, Production Engineering Planning Div.

Thierry P.H.B. Dombreval       Executive Vice President and COO,
                               Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA (TMME Company)



4.      Retiring Managing Officers (7 people) - To retire on the same day as
        this year's ordinary general shareholders' meeting in June.


             Name                                        Current Title

Hitoshi Nishiyama                                        Managing Officer

Alan J. Jones                                            Managing Officer

Yoshikatsu Tanaka                                        Managing Officer

Nobuyoshi Hisada                                         Managing Officer

Mitsuhisa Kato                                           Managing Officer

John H. Conomos                                          Managing Officer

Takis J. Athanasopoulos                                  Managing Officer


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