Japan

Any body know how the bike and car factories have been affected?

Boxerboy

 

I think Kawasaki is in Kobe, so probably not them.

 

There's a possibility other suppliers in their supply chain might be.

 

I think it is reasonable to assume that, regardless of specific local
troubles, Japan as a whole is going to be closed for a few weeks while
they find and bury the bodies.

Over and above this they have lost gert great chunks of their energy and
petro-chemical production. Ports will be quite a mess and airports
concentrating on incoming aid rather than passenger services.

Also the yen will be dropping like a stone which will make credit a bit
harder for business to get. On the bright side the bars and brothels will
be doing a roaring trade servicing the needs of the tens of thousands of
news crews descending like vultures upon the corpse.

 

ISTR hearing that Toyota were ceasing all production until they could
confirm the status of their staff

 

Apparently some Japanese owned factories in the UK are already affected by a
parts drought.