• Country: India
  • Date: 2018-01-21

Cars have several impacts on our lives. They have changed our lifestyle, living habits, city lives. They have also great effect on transportation and mass transit. Finally, they changed the way we think to our nature and environment. Indeed, we could not live without automobiles. They will change their technology and appearance but the way that we use in our lives may not change. And from generation to generation, we will have new habits and things as it was happened in the past.

Japan, as we are aware of, is the most popular manufacturer of automobiles. It is also one of the largest manufacturers in the world. The history of Japanese cars dates back to the 1910s. Initially, the Japanese companies started with building their own trucks or they sold cars with a European partnership. For example, Isuzu was manufactured in partnership with Wolseley Motors in the UK. However, with the advent of World War II, Japanese vehicle manufacturers began coming out of their shells and entering the great world of automobile manufacturing.

Although initially, Japanese cars did not have a good reputation, they began to earn a reputation of being reliable and affordable. This earned the Japanese a good reputation and the country became the largest automobile manufacturer in the world by 2000. However, the market has come down from its pedestal as number one especially due to competition from other countries namely, Korea, India and China. However, this did not bring down the Japanese car market. In fact, in 2008, Toyota beat General Motors to become the world largest automobile manufacturer.

This country is home to so many automobile industries. Some of the names of automobile manufacturers are Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Subaru and Suzuki. This country has won so many awards for cars designed by them including International Car of the Year.
Japan has become the largest car-producing nation in the world. This follows their emergence as major competitors in the global automobile market and has been enabled by their increased innovativeness in technology, improved level of car performance and competitive pricing, among other factors.
In 2011, Japan has seen disruption like never before. Earthquakes and tsunamis have left the nation in turmoil. Although despite facing overwhelming disaster, Japanese manufacturers are known for their ability to improvise and adapt in times of hardship.
This paper will discuss and closely examine the rise and growth of Japan's automobile industry to become the largest car-producing nation in the world. It also reviews how innovative policies have enabled this.
Japan's ability to produce popular, reliable, and affordable cars throughout the 1990s resulted in Japan becoming the largest car-producing nation in the world in 2000 (JAMA). This growth was led by passenger car exports and can be credited to various factors including; the improved performance of Japanese cars, due partly to the rise of technological levels of manufacturing; competitive pricing due to cost reductions that follow mass production; and the long-term market development strategies of Japanese manufacturers (JAMA).
The Japanese automobile export market grew steadily from a 51.9% share in 1965 to 73% in 1971 (JAMA). This growth was led by passenger car exports and can be credited to various factors including; the improved performance of Japanese cars, due partly to the rise of technological levels of manufacturing; competitive pricing due to cost reductions that follow mass production; and the long-term market development strategies of Japanese manufacturers.
The Japanese automobile industry has identified and is addressing issues within environmental protection and resource conservation that the industry has impacted (JAMA). This includes the further reduction of harmful motor vehicle exhaust emissions, protection of the ozone layer by discontinuing the use of CFCs and trichloroethane, increased fuel efficiency, increased efficiency in plants and infrastructure to reduce air, water and noise pollution, and the development of alternative-energy vehicles (JAMA). Recycling is also an important issue considered by the industry. New measures are constantly being implemented to improve vehicle recycling and recycling within the production process.
Very few luxury cars are made in Japan, this niche is filled by European manufacturers such as Mercedes Benz and BMW (Hays, 2010). The best selling imported vehicles in 2009 were as followed; Volkswagen (37,928 sold, 21.24% market share), BMW (29,090 sold, 16.29% market share) and Mercedes (28,740 sold, 16.1 market share). However, the sales of import cars in Japan fell to 18.6% in 2009, a 21-year low for the industry (Hays, 2010).

Japan's ability to produce popular, reliable, and affordable cars throughout the 1990s resulted in Japan becoming the largest car-producing nation in the world in 2000 (Bunkley, 2008). Their market share has decreased over time, due to increased competition from China, South Korea and India, but nevertheless Japan's automobile industry has continued to flourish and in 2008 Toyota became the world's largest car manufacturer, surpassing General Motors (Bunkley, 2008). Although Japan is not currently the largest producer of automobiles (third behind China and the United States), the automobile is still the country's most profitable export (White, 2009).

Today, Japan stands at number three in automobile manufacturing. Recently, though, China beat them to this position. Although number three, Japan’s automobile industry still remains one of the largest and the most profitable method of income for this country.

thank you japan for making beautiful ,reliable,affordable cars for us...a very BIG thank you..you are doing a fantastic work...keep going....GOD bless you.......

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