Death toll rises as Japan tackles fallout from Hokkaido earthquake
Electricity has mostly been restored, with Toyota set to resume operations, but 2,500 people remain in evacuation centres
Tokyo — The death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Japan last week rose to 44, with 660 injured, the government said on Monday. Electricity supply remained short and top carmaker Toyota suspended work at most of its assembly plants. Toyota said it would resume operations at all domestic assembly plants by Thursday. Production at the Hokkaido plant would resume later on Monday, A Toyota spokeswoman said partial production would resume on Tuesday at some plants, including those near the company’s headquarters in Aichi Prefecture, and at subsidiary Toyota Auto Body Co operations on remaining lines would resume on Thursday. The carmaker suspended production on Monday at 16 of its 18 domestic plants that manufacture the brand’s vehicles as it assessed the effects on its supply chain of a stoppage at Toyota Motor Hokkaido’s transmission plant, which supplies Toyota assembly plants at home and abroad. The Hokkaido plant produces transmissions for petrol vehicles, transaxles for ...
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