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(FILES) Photo taken December 25, 2008 shows Toyota Motors vice president Akio Toyoda attending a joint press conference with Daihatsu Motors officials in Tokyo. Toyota Motor will promote Akio Toyoda, a grandson of its founder, to president in June with a mission to rescue the auto giant from its biggest ever crisis, a newspaper said January 9, 2009. AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA