On February 24, 2010, Toyota president Toyoda Akio testified before a committee of the United States House of Representatives about the company’s recalls. He said: “My name is on every car.”
In the Japanese rendering of his statement published by the auto news site Response, he apologized deeply for every accident that Toyota drivers had experienced and said: Sore wa hitoe ni watakushi no sekinin de arimasu. “That is entirely my responsibility.”