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    11 months ago

    >“Production volume is decreasing, so dispatch contracts are terminated in line with that,” the spokesperson said of the employees, hired through dispatch agencies, at Honda’s venture with China’s state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group.

    Least convoluted employment relationship, maybe ever

    For Toyota at least it sounds like they’re cutting older models. Really hope the Yaris keeps on trucking!

    Anyway, I’ve always been a bit surprised at how well Japanese products sell in China; the Japanese did not treat them particularly well for nearly half a century of colonialism to put it mildly

    Then again, French, British, and American products are all popular there too, so maybe they hold grudges less than I would