JAPANESE carmakers, facing electricity shortages after the nation’s record earthquake crippled power plants, may consider measures including rotating production to save energy, Toyota Motor Corp. said.
Taking turns running assembly lines was among the measures that should be considered as automakers coordinated efforts through their main industry group, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Masami Doi, a spokesman for Toyota, said Tuesday.
Manufacturers face a cut in summer power supply of about 15 percent after the March 11 temblor knocked out generators, curbing growth in the world’s third-largest economy.
Plant damage and power outages have forced carmakers including Toyota and Honda Motor Co. to halt domestic car assembly, causing Toyota to lose an estimated 140,000 units of production so far.
Automakers were expected to meet “shortly” to discuss a rotation schedule as they sought to avoid scheduled blackouts in exchange for reducing their power use, Kyodo reported Monday.
Other industries might take similar measures, Kyodo said.
Toshitake Inoshita, a spokesman for Nissan Motor Co., Japan’s second-largest carmaker, said no discussions had taken place about rotating production or any other detailed plans. The auto industry would cooperate as much as possible to save power, Inoshita said.
The magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami crippled Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic plant, triggering the world’s worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. Bloomberg
June 2025
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“Action for Nature, for the Future!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
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against serious violations of
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5 Jun – World Environment Day
7 Jun – World Food Safety Day
8 Jun – World Oceans Day
12 Jun – World Day Against Child Labour
15 Jun – World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
16 Jun – International Day of Family Remittances
17 Jun – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
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25 Jun – Day of the Seafarer
27 Jun – Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day
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