Japanese automakers to run plants weekends

Japanese automakers to run plants weekends

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiyuki Shiga, chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 19, 2011. JAMA said its member firms will close plants in Japan on Thursdays and Fridays and open them on weekends from July through September to reduce weekday electricity consumption, following damage to power generation capacity of utilities caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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