Japan's car production stagnates since 2012
- The volume of car production in Japan (PC+LCV) has stagnated for several decades, but it has reached a new milestone by constantly remaining below 10 million vehicles since 2012 (against 11.5 million in 2008 and 13, 5 million in 1990). The main explanation for this decline in production in Japan is that Japanese manufacturers have plants around the world, including in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. And over the decades, they have steadily increased production in these factories, gradually transferring much of the volumes previously produced in Japan. And this movement will not stop any time soon, given that US President Donald Trump encourages Japanese manufacturers to produce even more on American soil ...
- The volume of production in Japan could thus fall to around 8 million units a year, over the next few years, especially since we cannot count on a rise in the Japanese car market, which has been stagnating for some 20 years, at around 5 million units a year.
- The Toyota Group (Toyota, Daihatsu, Lexus, Hino) remains largely leader of the Japanese market (54% of registrations) and in terms of production (44% of Japanese production). Renault-Nissan retains its second place (12% of registrations but 17% of Japanese production), ahead of Mazda, Suzuki, Honda, Subaru and Isuzu.
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