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...philosophical nature of Japan's automaking edge was proved once and for all with the success of the first Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, where American workers build Accords whose quality rivals or exceeds the same cars built in Japanese plants. Following the example of Toyota chairman Eiji Toyoda, Japanese companies in the 1960s and 1970s effectively reworked Henry Ford's theories, replacing his intensely hierarchical assembly-line system with a more flexible team-based arrangement. Japan's efforts have been fruitful. In the past decade the Japanese have built 11 plants in the U.S. and Canada with the capacity...
...Yuko Toyoda thought she was Japanese. After all, she spoke Japanese and looked like her other elementary school friends. But shortly before she entered the third grade, her parents told her that her real name was Kang Woo Ja and she was actually Korean. Woo Ja, surprised but not dismayed, announced her true identity to her classmates, and some of them promptly taunted her. It was her first encounter with Japan's lingering prejudice against Koreans, but it was not likely to be her last...
...Toyota-GM deal has also aroused workers' anxiety. Toyota Chairman Eiji Toyoda, who signed the agreement with GM Chairman Roger Smith, said that the venture may not necessarily hire back laid-off GM employees. The companies have even stirred fears that they may try to run the plant without union labor. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser, who welcomes the enterprise, said last week: "Getting jobs for Americans is more important than whether or not they belong to our union." If that sounds magnanimous, it may be because Fraser is sure that without the U.A.W., there will...
Japanese automakers immediately protested the agreement. Nissan Motor President Takashi Ishihara, whose firm makes Datsuns, said he feared that it would "cast dark shadows on the system of free trade around the world." Toyota President Eiji Toyoda said he was "greatly disappointed...
...workers, Toyota employees are never laid off-even during the slack period of model changeovers. The comforting sense of security is exceedingly important. The only serious strike Toyota ever had was in 1950, after 2,000 workers were let go. Before the strikers returned to their jobs, President Kiichiro Toyoda had to accept personal responsibility for the firings and commit a kind of corporate hara-kiri by resigning...