Toyota production in Japan hit by parts crunch from COVID-19

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The shortage of parts caused by the coronavirus pandemic is further denting production at Toyota, Japan’s top automaker.

FILE - A man walks by the logo on a Toyota car at a showroom in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2021. TOKYO —

Supplies are running short because of a lack of computer chips, which are crucial in auto parts. Plants in and out of Japan have undergone lockdowns and stoppages related to COVID-19 measures. Toyota has not given details. Toyota has periodically released information about COVID-19 among its workers. Toyota said four workers at a line at Tsutsumi plant in Toyota city, Aichi prefecture, became sick, so it was shut down. Earlier in the week, 14 workers tested positive at another line at the same factory, shutting down daytime operations for four days.

 

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