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We Love Toyota

No one, except the local journalist, knew the real affects of the current economic crisis on Toyota City, it is not something the Japanese press talked about. Criticizing one of the main industries in Japan is not something the people or the press do in Japan. I was informed that if the company needs press it basically spoon-feeds it to journalists and they print it.

Toyota City is the Detroit of Japan. But in Toyota City only a few Japanese...
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We Love Toyota

No one, except the local journalist, knew the real affects of the current economic crisis on Toyota City, it is not something the Japanese press talked about. Criticizing one of the main industries in Japan is not something the people or the press do in Japan. I was informed that if the company needs press it basically spoon-feeds it to journalists and they print it.

Toyota City is the Detroit of Japan. But in Toyota City only a few Japanese journalists seemed to know - how bad was Toyota hit by the current crisis.

I first visited a free soup line run by Rev. Shinji Kinjyo of "Toukai Chino Hate Senkyou Kyoukai" (End of the Earth Mission Church) in the Shirakawa Park near the Nagoya train station. There we met Yuji Kobayashi, 38, who had worked at an auto parts supplier for Toyota and Honda. He had lost his job a month ago and had been living and sleeping in the street near Nagoya station ...

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