Azerbaijan, Baku, March. 12 / Trend /
The earthquake that struck northeastern Japan yesterday wrought damage and shut down operations of some of the nation's largest manufacturers, including Nissan Motor Co. and Toshiba Corp., Bloomberg reported.
Nissan, the second-largest Japanese carmaker, said 2,300 new vehicles were damaged by tsunami surges yesterday in the wake of an 8.9-magnitude earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in Japan. Toshiba reported closure of a plant that makes sensors for the cameras in its mobile phones.
Nissan said four factories and two offices suffered minor damage and the automaker hasn't been able to contact some of its dealers in northern Japan. Some 1,300 vehicles, mostly Infiniti models, awaiting export to the U.S. at Hitachi port north of Tokyo, were damaged, said Sadayuki Hamaguchi, a Nissan spokesman. About 1,000 others at a service center further north in Miyagi prefecture were also damaged.
Honda Motor Co. said it will stop production at factories in Sayama, Mouka, Hamamatsu and Suzuka.