Earthquake in Japan Affects Toyota and Honda Plants
03-12-11, 03:51 AM
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03-12-11, 08:22 AM
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They will bounce right back!
Has to be frightening though being washed out to sea like that. I can hardly imagine what it must've been like.
Good news our family in Okinawa did not feel a thing during all this.
Has to be frightening though being washed out to sea like that. I can hardly imagine what it must've been like.
Good news our family in Okinawa did not feel a thing during all this.
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03-12-11, 10:24 AM
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I have a friend who lives in the Miyagi Prefecture which was affected by the quake. We haven't heard from her since the quake and can't reach her. I'm praying that she's alright.
. Just hope for the best
03-14-11, 09:24 AM
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Honda would like to express its deepest sympathy and condolences to the victims of The 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake in northeastern Japan and our sincere hopes for the earliest possible relief and recovery of the affected areas.
Honda operations
Considering the current situation of the nationwide recovery efforts in Japan, Honda has decided the following:
As of March 14, all production activities are suspended at the following Honda plants: Sayama Plant at Saitama Factory (Sayama, Saitama), Ogawa Plant (Ogawa-machi, Hiki-gun Saitama), Tochigi Factory (Moka, Tochigi), Hamamatsu Factory (Hamamatsu, Shizuoka) and Suzuka Factory (Suzuka, Mie).
From March 15 through 20, Honda will suspend all production activities at its plants listed above as well as at Kumamoto Factory (Ozu-machi, Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto).
From March 14 through 20, Honda will suspend regular operations at all Honda facilities in the Tochigi area, where damage was more serious, (including Tochigi Factory, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. R&D Center (Tochigi) , Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., etc.), and focus on the recovery of each operation. Honda associates will not come to work during this time.
Aid for the victims of the earthquake
With the hope to contribute to the earliest possible relief and recovery of affected areas, Honda will provide the following aid:
300 million yen toward the relief and recovery effort
A total of 1,000 generators (gasoline-powered and home-use gas canister-powered), along with 5,000 gas canisters. Honda also will dispatch its staff to explain how to use the donated generators.
Electricity conservation and cooperation for the rolling blackout requested by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Honda will cooperate to the electricity conservation efforts and the rolling blackout, prioritizing the relief and recovery of affected areas.
Recruiting activities
Honda decided the following regarding its recruiting activities so that victims of the earthquake can focus on recovery.
Prospective associates, who are scheduled to join the company in April, can choose to delay their first day of work by up to two months if they or their families are affected by the earthquake.
For those who have applied for next year's recruiting process starting in April of this year (associates who would join the company in April 2012) from the affected areas (six prefectures in Tohoku areas and Ibaraki prefecture), Honda will ensure that the testing/interviewing of those applicants will be conducted in June or later. More details will be posted on the recruiting section of the Honda website in April.
Honda operations
Considering the current situation of the nationwide recovery efforts in Japan, Honda has decided the following:
As of March 14, all production activities are suspended at the following Honda plants: Sayama Plant at Saitama Factory (Sayama, Saitama), Ogawa Plant (Ogawa-machi, Hiki-gun Saitama), Tochigi Factory (Moka, Tochigi), Hamamatsu Factory (Hamamatsu, Shizuoka) and Suzuka Factory (Suzuka, Mie).
From March 15 through 20, Honda will suspend all production activities at its plants listed above as well as at Kumamoto Factory (Ozu-machi, Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto).
From March 14 through 20, Honda will suspend regular operations at all Honda facilities in the Tochigi area, where damage was more serious, (including Tochigi Factory, Honda R&D Co., Ltd. R&D Center (Tochigi) , Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., etc.), and focus on the recovery of each operation. Honda associates will not come to work during this time.
Aid for the victims of the earthquake
With the hope to contribute to the earliest possible relief and recovery of affected areas, Honda will provide the following aid:
300 million yen toward the relief and recovery effort
A total of 1,000 generators (gasoline-powered and home-use gas canister-powered), along with 5,000 gas canisters. Honda also will dispatch its staff to explain how to use the donated generators.
Electricity conservation and cooperation for the rolling blackout requested by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Honda will cooperate to the electricity conservation efforts and the rolling blackout, prioritizing the relief and recovery of affected areas.
Recruiting activities
Honda decided the following regarding its recruiting activities so that victims of the earthquake can focus on recovery.
Prospective associates, who are scheduled to join the company in April, can choose to delay their first day of work by up to two months if they or their families are affected by the earthquake.
For those who have applied for next year's recruiting process starting in April of this year (associates who would join the company in April 2012) from the affected areas (six prefectures in Tohoku areas and Ibaraki prefecture), Honda will ensure that the testing/interviewing of those applicants will be conducted in June or later. More details will be posted on the recruiting section of the Honda website in April.
03-14-11, 11:53 AM
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^^^ awesome response from Honda. 
maybe not. japan's govt is leveraged even worse (actually MUCH worse) than the u.s. the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure there will likely be 10's or 100's of billions (maybe even a trillion or more). a couple of nuclear power plants are likely toast. thousands of miles of electrical, communications, and transportation infrastructure (not to mention homes, businesses, cars, boats, etc.) has been destroyed. the country will have maybe hundreds of thousands of people who need other housing for a LONG time.
it's really sad, but obviously Japan is a fabulously talented, industrious, and civilized country, that WILL recover, but it won't be quick.
maybe not. japan's govt is leveraged even worse (actually MUCH worse) than the u.s. the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure there will likely be 10's or 100's of billions (maybe even a trillion or more). a couple of nuclear power plants are likely toast. thousands of miles of electrical, communications, and transportation infrastructure (not to mention homes, businesses, cars, boats, etc.) has been destroyed. the country will have maybe hundreds of thousands of people who need other housing for a LONG time.
it's really sad, but obviously Japan is a fabulously talented, industrious, and civilized country, that WILL recover, but it won't be quick.
03-21-11, 04:35 PM
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Toyota Disruptions May Last Weeks After Japan Earthquake
Toyota, Sony Disruptions May Last Weeks After Japan Earthquake
By Alan Ohnsman, Dave McCombs and Cliff Edwards
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March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. and Sony Corp., two of Japan’s biggest manufacturers, are facing worst-case scenarios of long-term production shortfalls as scores of plants remain closed and workers are idled in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
“The current situation is still difficult,” Chisato Kitsukawa, a spokesman for Tokyo-based Sony, by phone yesterday. The company has shut eight plants in Miyagi, Ibaraki and Fukushima prefectures, and workers are inspecting equipment and facilities, he said. Toyota has said it will keep 21 auto and components plants closed until March 22.
Sony and Toyota’s efforts to resume production are complicated by the need for hundreds of different components to build TVs and cars from a variety of different suppliers that may have suffered plant damage in the earthquake and tsunami. Japan is also facing electricity shortages because a nuclear- power plant was crippled by the temblor.
“This will be played out not in days, but in weeks,” said John Hoffecker, head of the automotive practice at consulting firm AlixPartners LLP in Detroit. “Nothing on this scale has really occurred before.”
Quake, Tsunami
The earthquake and tsunami killed more than 7,000 people and damaged or destroyed more than 100,000 buildings in the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, according to the National Police Agency of Japan. Workers are also battling to prevent a nuclear meltdown at a plant north of Tokyo.
Sony and Toyota, based in Toyota City, Japan, have both fallen 12 percent in Tokyo trading since March 10, the last day of trading before the quake. The Topix Index has dropped 11 percent.
Keisuke Kirimoto, a Toyota spokesman, didn’t immediately reply to message left on his cellphone yesterday.
For Sony, the most significant damage is to its Tagajyo plant, in Miyagi prefecture, that produces coating materials for magnetic tapes, touch-panel mobile devices and Blu-ray discs. Short-term recovery is “very difficult due to flooding caused by the tsunami,” Sony has said.
The electronics company and its suppliers probably have at least two weeks of inventory on hand, which offsets disruptions, said Jordan Selburn, principal analyst for consumer electronics at IHS iSuppli Corp. The more likely challenges are a shortage of basic components and power supplies, he said.
‘Less Glamorous Parts’
“Some of the less glamorous parts that they need to build their own stuff may be lost to them,” he said. “That’s the nail keeping the horse, for want of a shoe, from joining the battle and that leads to losing the kingdom.”
Toyota’s shutdown affects about 95,000 units of production, of which 60 percent is for shipment to markets, including the U.S., Steve Curtis, a spokesman for the carmaker’s sales unit in Torrance, California, said March 17. U.S. inventory levels remain “normal,” he said then.
Shipments of parts including chemicals, plastics, steel and other metals, precision ball bearings and electronic components may be disrupted for weeks, Hoffecker said. General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will suspend car production at plants in Spain and Germany next week because of a lack of Japanese-made parts.
“An automobile has 5,000 parts,” said Maryann Keller, an analyst and principal of a self-titled consulting firm in Stamford, Connecticut. “It has to be produced with every single one of them.”
Nissan, Honda
Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s second-largest carmaker, has suspended operations at six plants, the Yokohama-based company said this week. The company has more than 1,500 Leaf electric vehicles either in transit from Japan or at ports in the U.S., the Franklin, Tennessee-based Nissan Americas said in a statement. Nissan Americas’ manufacturing operations will follow a normal production schedule until at least March 25.
Honda Motor Co. has closed six factories, including three car factories and one motorcycle assembly plant that will be shut until March 23, the company said in a statement. The automaker, which builds more than 80 percent of its vehicles for the U.S. market in North American plants, also suspended orders from U.S. dealers for Japan-built models.
Honda told U.S. Honda and Acura dealers, who typically order vehicles six weeks in advance, of the plan March 17 in a memo, Christina Ra and Gary Robinson, U.S. representatives for the Tokyo-based company, said.
By Alan Ohnsman, Dave McCombs and Cliff Edwards
News Link
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. and Sony Corp., two of Japan’s biggest manufacturers, are facing worst-case scenarios of long-term production shortfalls as scores of plants remain closed and workers are idled in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
“The current situation is still difficult,” Chisato Kitsukawa, a spokesman for Tokyo-based Sony, by phone yesterday. The company has shut eight plants in Miyagi, Ibaraki and Fukushima prefectures, and workers are inspecting equipment and facilities, he said. Toyota has said it will keep 21 auto and components plants closed until March 22.
Sony and Toyota’s efforts to resume production are complicated by the need for hundreds of different components to build TVs and cars from a variety of different suppliers that may have suffered plant damage in the earthquake and tsunami. Japan is also facing electricity shortages because a nuclear- power plant was crippled by the temblor.
“This will be played out not in days, but in weeks,” said John Hoffecker, head of the automotive practice at consulting firm AlixPartners LLP in Detroit. “Nothing on this scale has really occurred before.”
Quake, Tsunami
The earthquake and tsunami killed more than 7,000 people and damaged or destroyed more than 100,000 buildings in the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, according to the National Police Agency of Japan. Workers are also battling to prevent a nuclear meltdown at a plant north of Tokyo.
Sony and Toyota, based in Toyota City, Japan, have both fallen 12 percent in Tokyo trading since March 10, the last day of trading before the quake. The Topix Index has dropped 11 percent.
Keisuke Kirimoto, a Toyota spokesman, didn’t immediately reply to message left on his cellphone yesterday.
For Sony, the most significant damage is to its Tagajyo plant, in Miyagi prefecture, that produces coating materials for magnetic tapes, touch-panel mobile devices and Blu-ray discs. Short-term recovery is “very difficult due to flooding caused by the tsunami,” Sony has said.
The electronics company and its suppliers probably have at least two weeks of inventory on hand, which offsets disruptions, said Jordan Selburn, principal analyst for consumer electronics at IHS iSuppli Corp. The more likely challenges are a shortage of basic components and power supplies, he said.
‘Less Glamorous Parts’
“Some of the less glamorous parts that they need to build their own stuff may be lost to them,” he said. “That’s the nail keeping the horse, for want of a shoe, from joining the battle and that leads to losing the kingdom.”
Toyota’s shutdown affects about 95,000 units of production, of which 60 percent is for shipment to markets, including the U.S., Steve Curtis, a spokesman for the carmaker’s sales unit in Torrance, California, said March 17. U.S. inventory levels remain “normal,” he said then.
Shipments of parts including chemicals, plastics, steel and other metals, precision ball bearings and electronic components may be disrupted for weeks, Hoffecker said. General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will suspend car production at plants in Spain and Germany next week because of a lack of Japanese-made parts.
“An automobile has 5,000 parts,” said Maryann Keller, an analyst and principal of a self-titled consulting firm in Stamford, Connecticut. “It has to be produced with every single one of them.”
Nissan, Honda
Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s second-largest carmaker, has suspended operations at six plants, the Yokohama-based company said this week. The company has more than 1,500 Leaf electric vehicles either in transit from Japan or at ports in the U.S., the Franklin, Tennessee-based Nissan Americas said in a statement. Nissan Americas’ manufacturing operations will follow a normal production schedule until at least March 25.
Honda Motor Co. has closed six factories, including three car factories and one motorcycle assembly plant that will be shut until March 23, the company said in a statement. The automaker, which builds more than 80 percent of its vehicles for the U.S. market in North American plants, also suspended orders from U.S. dealers for Japan-built models.
Honda told U.S. Honda and Acura dealers, who typically order vehicles six weeks in advance, of the plan March 17 in a memo, Christina Ra and Gary Robinson, U.S. representatives for the Tokyo-based company, said.
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