Jujiro Matsuda (松田 重次郎, Matsuda Jūjirō, 8 August 1875 – 27 March 1952) was a Japanese inventor, machinist, industrialist and businessman whose company, Toyo Kogyo, led to the founding of the present-day multinational automaker Mazda Motor Corporation, in 1984.

Matsuda would see his fledgling company's fortunes improve when it was commissioned as a supplier to the Tsar of Russia[1] and as the manufacturer of the Type 99 rifle for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces.

The Fuchū plant, located over 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the epicentre of the nuclear explosion, was left relatively unscathed; Matsuda offered its usage for the Hiroshima bureau of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

[3][4] His adopted son-in-law, Tsuneji Matsuda, succeeded him as president of Toyo Kogyo[2] and oversaw the expansion of its automobile division until 1979, when Ford Motor Company took a 25 percent equity stake.

[5] The alliance with Ford Motor Company led to the divestiture of shares from the Matsuda family and the change of Toyo Kogyo into Mazda Motor Corporation in 1984; the Matsuda family still owns a controlling interest in the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.