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In Toyota Mess, Lesson for Japan

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Because of its size ($230 billion in sales) Toyota is Japan's largest taxpayer, largest company, showcases its engineering capabilities, and one of its largest employers. Which is why Akio Toyoda referred to returning Toyota to profitability as part of the effort for the "revitalization of Japan." Experts in Japanese universities who think the Toyota crisis offers lessons about Japan's future, see a direction away from mass manufactured products to a more service driven economy. Already the Japanese economy is down from 28% of the economy in manufacturing in 1990 to 22% in 2008.

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