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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 | Japan

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.

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