announced it will stop production at five manufacturing plants in europe between late-april and early may because it cannot get enough parts. toyota says the shutdowns will occur on eight days at plants in britain, turkey, france, and also poland. the company previously said it will stop production at most of its north american factories for up to five days later on in april. but that it will resume some production in japan on april 18th. japan's chief cabinet secretary made a show of eating strawberry and a tomato from near the fukushima nuclear plant to prove food from that region is indeed safe. the government's new push to promote japanese produce and to help out hard hit farmers near the damaged nuclear plant took place on the same day that it raised the rating on the nuclear crisis there from a level five to a level seven. that's the same level as