Toyota and Subaru idle plants as quakes disrupt supply chains

Wednesday's temblors in northeastern Japan impact auto industry

Cars roll off assembly lines at Toyota Motor's Tsutsumi plant in the central Japanese city of Toyota. The automaker's supply chains have been disrupted by major earthquakes earlier this week. © Reuters

MASAHISA YUZAWA and SHIZUKA TANABE, Nikkei staff writers

March 19, 2022 03:45 JST

TOKYO -- Toyota Motor and Subaru are shutting down certain assembly lines in Japan after this week's powerful earthquakes in the northeast disrupted supply chains.

Toyota will halt 18 production lines at 11 of its domestic plants from this coming Monday through Wednesday in a move estimated to affect roughly 20,000 vehicles.