Toyota Production resumes all plants of the Japan

Toyota Motor Corp. has resumed production automobile at all its plants in Japan Monday for the first time since March 11, earthquake and the tsunami, but said that plants will take place at half capacity because of parts shortages.

No. 1 constructor world say there still struggling to obtain approximately 150 types of auto parts. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the tsunami that followed destroyed parts plants in the northeast of the Japan, causing serious shortages of components.

Disaster twin forced Toyota to close all output to the Japan except in three plants to produce Prius, Lexus and Corolla hot-selling cars which were operating at capacity limited since late March and early April.

Workers at 900 to the factory cars of Toyota in Miyagi, one of the most affected areas in disasters, observed a minute of silence for the victims of the tsunami before you start working Monday. The earthquake and tsunami left close to 28,000 people dead or missing. Alone Miyagi, police said more than 8,400 people have been killed.

Toru Kuzuhara, President of Toyota subsidiary Central Motor Co. Ltd., which operates the Miyagi plant, said he hoped that the resumption of car production would help stimulate reconstruction efforts in tsunami-beaten region.

"Make us top quality cars and deliver to customers as soon as possible." I believe that this will cause larger Miyagi reconstruction efforts, "he says.

Yasuhiro Tadokoro, an official at the plant of Miyagi, said that he felt relieved that the factory was still running.

"" Finally, we can operate our factory. "."I am so relieved that we can return to work for the first time since the tsunami, he said.

Miyagi plant - factory of Toyota in the Japan most recent auto - started its operations in January. The plant suffered minor damage due to the tremor, Tadokoro said. Toyota made Yaris compact sedans to the Miyagi factory for export to North America.

Toyota will keep production of all its Japanese plants in half of the capacity to 27 April and stop, and then exit from 28 April to 9 may, a period which includes Golden Week holidays when factories would normally close.