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Japanese cars fall victim to China-Japan dispute

Japanese cars fall victim to China-Japan dispute

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The 2011 Japan Tsunami has caused severe economic repercussions to the Japanese car makers. Now that they have seeming recovered from the disaster, a Tsunami-sized dispute between China and Japan has caused sales of Japanese cars in China to nose dive.

 

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Japan and China are at loggerheads over claims to sovereignty of some islands in the East China Sea, known as Diaoyu in China or Senkaku in Japan. This has set off violent protests in China, and a widespread call to boycott Japanese goods.

 

Mitsubishi reported that its China sales plunged 63% to 2,340 vehicles in September while Mazda




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