Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:57:58 +0900, Eric Takabayashi
> <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>
> >But we are talking about the Japanese. Speaking of cars, foreign cars
> >account for only about one percent of sales in Japan,
>
> Do they?
>
> http://www.jama.org/library/studies051398.htm
>
> Has it dropped from the 9.6% reported here in 1998?

Yes.

One percent could have been referring to only US maker imports.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/economy/date/22_1.html

But I've read more current data last year which showed how low the total
market share of imported cars (including those manufactured by Japanese
makers) is.

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