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Toyota loses some of its luster in same-name hometown over recalls

February 11, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Rising out of the barren winter rice fields of central Japan, this city of 400,000 people is probably the most Toyota-friendly place on the planet. Renamed after the company 51 years ago, it hosts the corporate headquarters as well as enormous factories. It is beholden to the automaker for tens of thousands of jobs and the bulk of its tax income.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Active Safety, Akari Mizunaga, Akio Toyoda, Europe, GM, Hideki Nagata, Intelligent Safety, Jun Morikawa, Kazuhide Ueyama, Maybe Toyota, Passive Safety, Switzerland, Tokyo, Toyota Town, United States, Vol 29 No 7 | February 13 - February 19, japan

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