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...This was an increase from 931,700 in 2002, 6.8 per cent of the total, according to consultancy CRU Group....
...One story that managers tell is of the Chinese consumer....
...One is Toyota Tsusho, the trading arm of the Japanese carmaker, which started working with Kindai University in 2010 to develop fully farmed bluefin tuna and began exporting in 2017....
...Toyota is down 10 per cent in dollar terms since March, for example. Next and more importantly, exchange rates are intensely political....
...But it is also like observing a Tesla compared with the Toyota on show at XXL. Robots lift bins into cavity bellies, rather than gripping them on cantilevered arms....
...“The era of cross-strait industrial co-prosperity is over,” said one expert....
...Former chief executive Federico Buenrostro, who led the pension fund for six years between 2002 and 2008, was sent to prison for four and a half years on bribery charges....
...In 2002 it only accounted for 8 per cent of global gross domestic product; now it accounts for 19 per cent....
...Three men and one woman were taken to hospital, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government....
...Japan made up 50 per cent of the global gaming market in 2002 but has shrunk to 13 per cent today....
...The world’s top-selling car is now the Toyota Corolla. It quickly became a legend, immortalised on screen as “Herbie the Love Bug” in a series of movies....
...Founded in 2013, the Bunkyo Rugby School is one of 25 similar clubs in the Tokyo area....
...At one point there were over 100 listed rare earth companies, each claiming to be the answer to Chinese dominance, says Mr Smith. “I didn’t expect that only one would survive.”...
...It happened to Toyota’s “lean” production system. It has also happened, according to Jim Collins, to his metaphor for an endless cycle of improvement, the flywheel....
...After travelling to study factories across the world — from the Toyota Production System to German precision engineering — he returned to the UK in the late-1970s determined to place Britain on the global...
...One of the biggest, Avanzar, which provides most of the interiors for both the Tundra and the Tacoma, is a joint venture between Michigan-based Adient, the world’s largest car seat-maker, and Shanghai-based...
...joint venture facility with Mazda, and instead have the Mexican plant focus on making Tacoma pick-up trucks....
...As a result the region around Nagoya, home to the car company Toyota, has gained ground as a competing hub....
...Toyota shares also slid sharply, warning that tariffs would adversely affect the car industry and result in higher costs for consumers....
...The first game-changing smartphone, the BlackBerry 5810, debuted in 2002. A decade later, smartphones accounted for half of all US mobile connections....
...Toyota has 14 plants in North America, 10 in the US, three in Canada and one in Mexico. In 2015, it built more than 2m vehicles in plants across North America, of which 1.3m were made in the US....
...Toyota has 14 plants in North America, 10 in the US, three in Canada and just one in Mexico....
...The decision was a symbolic one for Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s chief executive, as it marked the lifting of a three-year moratorium on plant construction....
...Its high-tech manufacturers from Toyota to robot maker Fanuc prosper in a global marketplace....
...Detractors point out that the Reagan strategy also caused companies such as Toyota to produce higher-value luxury cars to avoid tariffs on cheaper ones and hurt high-end US brands such as Cadillac as a result...
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