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Japan's auto-manufacturing corridor is absorbing the downstream consequences of a seismic shock that will not stay contained.
An earthquake in Kumamoto has caused significant supply chain disruptions at Toyota Motor Corporation, and the automaker has expanded its production suspensions in response.
The widening of those suspensions is the key signal: containment did not hold. A halt that keeps growing The initial production response to the Kumamoto earthquake was a suspension.
Expanding that suspension means the supply chain damage is traveling further, and more slowly resolving, than the first assessment suggested. Japan's automotive sector is built around just-in-time production logic.
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