JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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sfjp330: When a vehicle passes the rigorous safety testing performed by the IIHS and NHTSA with a good rating...
Excuse me but where did you get this from? What tests safety tests are you talking about? You're guessing this aren't you? The IIHS only crashes vehicles for cost of repair analysis. They asses the cost to any of their insurance providers how much it'll cost to repair a wrecked vehicle using original manufacturer parts and service. They don't give a hoot about safety. If the 5 mph crash to the rear bumper costs an arm and a leg to fix then the vehicle gets a negative 'rating'. The rating only means - "If you buy this car expect to have to fork out big bucks on your insurance premiums because there's no way we're going to pay fifteen hundred bucks to straighten out a plastic bumper...." The NHTSA doesn't test the vehicles unless there's a question about safety after the vehicle has been homologated. Do you understand vehicle homologation in the US? If you did you wouldn't be saying the crazy stuff you're saying. Toyota has taken advantage of US consumers misconception of the auto industry. This explains why so many people are standing behind Toyota now. If only a one half of a degree clearer picture of the industry had been painted for them to see this entire mess would never have gone past 1998.
Posted in: Toyota pledges to take safety 'to the next level'
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Mr. USA: the Scrum is made by Suzuki but sold under Mazda. It's a Mazda Scrum - named by a Mazda rugby club booster. It's a micro-truck. sfjp330: are you on the Toyota PR payroll? It's getting harder to find reason in any of your posts. Toyota simply are in a fix for fraud. Is that so hard to understand? The US is only baiting Toyota into committing perjury - which they did over the two days before the Committee.
I notice **UriOtani **is no longer commenting - what happened? A bolt of light strike her on her way to Damascus?
Posted in: Suzuki, Nissan, Daihatsu announce recalls in Japan
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Actually Toyota needs to take Compliance to the very first level. It's not safety but compliance that is the issue here and not a single word has been mentioned about it on both sides of the Pacific.
Posted in: Toyota pledges to take safety 'to the next level'
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Libertas: A month from now I want to see what you will say about what you will know then. AT the moment I doubt you know very much about Toyota. And we are very fortunate that we can hide behind our grandiose monikers because this would be the undoing of many a career. Toyoda is only starting to get the point - how rotten his company is.
Posted in: Toyota chief's U.S. testimony closely watched in Japan
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sfjp330: you're not an insider. In the industry they laugh at posts like yours - posts that paint them as perfect as their paid-for press created images. Toyota has been cooking the books on vehicle quality. Resale value has been artificially set - no recalls have been made at manufacturer's expense. The dumb customer has been duped into paying for the fixes which by the way have been equal to the number reported at the Big Three - See how Toyota stands in Germany - they're lower than Mazda in claims per vehicle. Here's to illustrate how screwed the vehicle quality rating system is; Ford builds the Ranger. Rebadges it to Mazda and the ratings begin - in the US and Australia. How do they stand against one another? Mind you it is exactly the same truck and made by Ford. On average the Mazda rates 8 places higher than the Ford.
Posted in: Worried Toyota dealers in U.S. adding own voice to PR push
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To the folks that say, "I have a Honda..." let me assure you that the ball is coming your way soon. Every manufacturer that uses the techonlogy has the sudden acceleration and brake failure problems.
Posted in: The Toyota story set to run and run
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MrUSA: You have no idea what has been happening in the US auto industry. The two compnaies had to pay the full costs of retirement etc... Toyota switched fulltime worker's contracts to part time without their knowledge - have you been reading the papers? ALl the missing pensions? Toyota was operating without costs. Recalls were done in secret and billed to the owner and parts makers - they also collected labor twice. Toyota double booked production volume - inflated numbers to show bigger gains and raise stock value - funds fled the US makers. Themselves to blame? ANd don't bother mentioning hybrids because they had sweetheart deals to avoid the stringent regulations that make the vehicles virtually impossible to build in the US - the materials used are so toxic it is impossible to work with them in the US - Toyota built in Japan and used bribery to get them in. If you had knowledge of what has really been happening in your country you'd be looking at this issue through different eyes.
Posted in: Worried Toyota dealers in U.S. adding own voice to PR push
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Wow Mr. Hilton... yes your article is interesting but only if based upon the real Toyota and it's post bubble ventures. The Toyota the media is talking about is as close to the Toyota we actually have as the sun is to the moon. I warned through this very forum no less than five years ago that a massive fraud to make Toyota number two in the US market had been hatched - I had first hand knowledge of it. I saw grown men contemplate suicide over the orders that they 'assist' Toyota to this objective by falsifying the number of vehicles produced by all members of the Japanese auto makers lobby. The orders were specifically to double book all line-off products. That means that any components made in Japan that would be boxed and shipped to an off-shore plant for final vehicle assembly would be counted as a full vehicle and again counted as a second vehicle when assembled abroad. The short of it is that two cars were born out of one. I also warned that the memos I was privvy to clearly stated the goal of raising massive amounts of funds in New York through that 'growing' production volume. When the technology that's at the center of this issue came to be deemed as falling short of its intended purpose the companies using it - not Toyota only, decided collectively that they had found their long awaited cashcow. Parts were rountinely switched and charged to the unsuspecting customers. Guess what else? They claimed replacement and labor costs to the tech supplier... they had found a cow that give twice from the same udder. Now do you understand why Mr. Toyoda was suddenly thrust into the driver's seat? The heat was on and the top execs fled leaving the completely wet-behind-the-ears grandson to take the fall. Yes indeed this story will play on for decades to come.
Posted in: The Toyota story set to run and run
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Japan has many five star hotels and I'd recommend them all.
Posted in: Aiming for 6-star hospitality
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Every Toyota dealer should be ashamed. They all abetted in the crime. They profited from the customers who had flawed parts changed in secret. There's nothing they can do to earn redemption - not only did they fleece their own compatriots they abetted in the fraud that led to a near collapse of the US auto industry. Shame on anyone who has added support to Toyota - especially since you had zero idea of what Toyota was really like on the inside. To say you were duped may be okay but....
Posted in: Worried Toyota dealers in U.S. adding own voice to PR push
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tclh: Yes, it's called a Lada (Gigoli). You don't need the dealer to fix it for you and the maker doesn't lie to you about what he didn't put in it. It's like mother's cooking - it's still better than a restaurant because mum doesn't tell you anything about what the food will taste like except it's for your life - eat you live, don't eat you die.
Posted in: Toyota now investigating Corolla steering problems
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Moshe Dayan, Golda Muir, Ben Gurion and all the brave souls who used their heads before their feet I miss you... what a bunch of idiots Israel is left with. This Prime Minister is a walking catastrophe...
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YuriOtani - Hi! The question you asked, "Could this in the end get Toyota more trouble because of the cover-up than the problem?" Bingo! That's the logic even in Japan. But the unusual problem for Toyota is that they did not only cover it up - they told their dealers that this was a good business opportunity - the customer doesn't know that the parts need to be changed so do it in secret and charge the customer for it. Recommend a service that changes a part saying that it will increase your re-sale value... don't tell them which part you've changed. Also charge minimum labor. Remember that this was all supposed to be Toyota's cost. Now how does Toyota tell the US government we didn't cover-up when the US government knows that Toyota has been importing the parts? The parts related to the PCM are slow-moving parts. This means they are hardly if ever changed on a vehicle. By law when a new vehicle is exported to the US service parts, repair parts and slow-moving parts must be exported too. In the beginning of a new model sale service parts are sent at 60% of total volume shipped or if built in the US the dealers get 60% of the parts for the vehicles they'll be selling. Repair parts (or crash parts) are 19% and at 5% slow moving parts are put into the market - this is just in case there is an unexpected product failure. With me so far? Toyota however was supplying dealers with slow-moving parts for each vehicle in the market! That means there is a product failure and possibly with every car. The problem up to now is the government has not been able to identify exactly what is failing and how. Under the law one can't charge them with a crime until it can be proven. But then the Toyota old boys who see the grandson of their beloved founder treated this way (by those who threw him into the CEO seat to escape the responsibility)... they're going to blow the whistle. Toyota's own people will kill it. This is huge. Alsoo remember the Japanese parts makers who have been charged for these repairs also - yes Toyota also collected money from the parts makers. US customers and Japanese parts makers have been charged yet Toyota continues to deny the problem. How does the Japanese parts maker file his taxes when Toyota will not give him a receipt? Now you see what I'm afraid of? Toyota is no angel.
Posted in: U.S. gov't demands Toyota hand over documents on recalls
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Midnightpromise: It's daybreak - you can come out of your sleep now. The US made Toyotas are using the same parts that are suffering from the same problems with the Japan built Toyotas. If you'd read your daily paper you'd see that Japan has arrested Toyota service managers for hiding the facts - people have died in Japan because of the same problems. The Corolla steering problem - guess what? It is linked to the immobiliser that self triggers while you're driving - sound familiar. Toyota has known this for years and covered it up - see "Toyota Hi-lux crash 2004 Kumamoto" Oh and to burst your bubble one more time - successive Toyota CEO's have repeatedly confessed that their American workers produce better quality products, have better work ethics and produce more per man hour than the Japanese. And saying this in Nagoya. Would a Japanese worker from Nagoya ever go to the Diet to defend the company - even if told to do so by the company? Hell no.
Posted in: Toyota now investigating Corolla steering problems
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YuriOtani : your posts are about Japan being superior to the US. This problem with Toyota is not a new issue - please take a moment to see my posts from three years ago. I warned that Toyota was leading Japan to a possible conflict with the US because of criminal business practices. I advised the Japanese ministry of transport in June this year to get the Toyota execs in for a warning. They didn't believe me. I am speaking from experience. My fear is not the US regulators or congress but I fear a Japanese whistle blower. I am so afraid because Japanese workers take company documents home - especially when they're doing bad business practice. The companies have a policy of hiding the papers at the worker's houses. The trouble is the worker realises the value of what he has and he sells it to the media or even to the US for a Green card. A Japanese company under suspicion in the US always loses. There is no way one of their workers will not report - for money.
Posted in: U.S. gov't demands Toyota hand over documents on recalls
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YuriOtani: I heard the north Koreans believe Kim Jong Il regularly shoots 12 on the front nine - but of coure they've never seen him play and have no idea what golf is. Getting the point? Japan must stop buying US debt? Now doesn't that ring a bell? You've got to understand that when April rolls around you're going to have to think seriously about what the Toyota people will be saying - blaming the guys who have left the company. This is always the outcome when a Japanese company is under the microscpoe - FUSO: for twenty years they bought the police reports that would prove the victim of a broken hub was the cause, they lied about testing the parts - they had no testing facilities(!); Toyota executives where arrested in 2005 for the crime of hiding the defects in the Hi-Lux steering; Koito was in the papers only last week for systematic cheating on airline seat data... look in the mirror before you play partiotic cheer leader.
Posted in: Toyota undecided on president's trip to U.S.
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YuriOtani - The Japanese do not like them etc etc... I worked in a Japanese auto company for 17 years. The company and JAMA were absolutely against any dealer who would even consider a US import. The regulators went out of their way to make sure that the vehicles ever got into the showrooms. Which cars are all the celebs driving? Not Japanese. Honda Civic small car? I had a Honda Civic parked next to a Cadillac to prove to the media that your type of comments are nutty. Guess which was the small car? Go do the test yourself. Why don't pick-up trucks made by Japanese makers get sold in Japan? If they did the US makers would outsell them - so by removing the segment from the market the pickup becomes a special sector which costs more to import. AMerican makers do recalls when something is suspected to be wrong. Japanese makers charge the owner for repair of a different part but change the suspect part secretly. If you've never worked behind the scenes in a Japanese auto company I suggest you avoid this arguement.
Posted in: U.S. gov't demands Toyota hand over documents on recalls
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The facts are already known - Toyota has a major problem here. Congress is baiting Toyota into fibbing itself into no return. The one problem that Toyota is simply wishing will go away is the service advisory bulletins it has put out to its dealers over the past ten years. To the layman out there - the company would tell the dealers to earn a buck on a fix Toyota was obligated for. That means silently recalling the cars and having the dealers con the owner into paying the cost by claiming an alternative problem. The trouble here however is that evidence suggests quite clearly that Toyota claimed for those repairs from its suppliers. Folks we have a company that professes to be an angel but...
Posted in: Toyota undecided on president's trip to U.S.
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Mr. Toyoda was not made president for any reason but to make him the fall guy. He was set up. This problem took a little longer to come out than I exepected - most people, including Mr. Toyoda, were simply stupid and blind to not realize the crisis. The people who didn't change the product design eight years ago are the ones holding the blame - they're all out of Toyota now. Left poor grand son holding the smoking gun... Toyota lawyers are just as ignorant of the cause so they're saving their careers. They're not dumb enough to say anything to Toyoda - he's virtually on his own. Fair weather friends it turns out the Japanese media have been to Toyota. Where's Rajkumar and the rest of the posters who called me crazy for calling this crisis two years ago? I only got back to JT because the comments I'm reading are so far off the mark... I'll give you all one last hint of a similar technology flaw - Airbus.
Posted in: Toyota's president apologizes for massive global recalls
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Escape is Ford - I was in the company that got the Tribute. What is it with you guys? The project paperwork between the two companies came through my desk everyday for the five years it took them to decide they were going to take it from Ford. Mazda had it literally shoved onto them by Ford. The only input from Mazda was probably the chassis dimensions - they hoped that by demanding a Japanese parking space sized unit Ford would balk and stop the project. Ford didn't. So Mazda made very little effort to sell the car. The Mazda attitude was so bad that only one Mazda person was dispatched to the Kansas factory to oversee production - and he was killed in a car wreck on the eve of mass production start - his replacement suddenly came to me to ask for our project to be cancelled because he'd been told he had to take charge of the Tribute (and he had played no part in it at all). Worse is that Mazda people went out of their way to 'misunderstand' the build order requests -the Tribute had the worst built errors in the US. The replacement guy in Kansas often griped to me that the Hiroshima guys were sending the wrong data to Ford though the requests from Ford were written by him in Japanese. Customer options were either intentionally misunderstood or ignored... The product concept was Ford's. Vehicle designed by Ford. Powered by Ford. SHould I go on?
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