I say its 50/50 years ago GM raised their quality ratings by shutting down the Van Nuys plant and there is a general attitude of me me me in this state so I think that Toyota which is known to lookout for its own interests and the interests of Japan would not operate that plant unless it has to which is either it is cost effective or they dont want to piss us off too much by being so obvious in their asian centric hiring practices. these are not nice people so dont expect them to do anything out of the goodness of their hearts because they dont operate that way, their problem is Japan lacks diversity and so they dont value people in other countries especially non Japanese or non asians.
and the Japanese Keiretsu system means that Japan looks out for other companies in their system as opposed to just buying what makes sense for them like the Americans and the Germans do.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_demographics#Immigration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu


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