Toyota's famed problem-solving falls short at scandal-hit Daihatsu

Subsidiary's factory oversight may have fallen by wayside in pursuit of scale

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An employee at work at Daihatsu Motor's Kyoto plant in Japan. (Photo by Arisa Moriyama)

KAZUHIRO NOGUCHI, Nikkei staff writer

NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor takes pride in monitoring its factory floors to maximize best practices. Now Japan's leading automaker is coming to terms with compliance failures that suggest this principle was not embraced at subsidiary Daihatsu Motor.

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