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Mazda plans to suspend production for a total of 10 days next month at its Hofu plant in western Japan because of the global semiconductor shortage.
TOKYO Fortress Japan has weathered the global microprocessor shortage largely unscathed so far. But as the crisis wears on, output here is now getting a taste of the supply chain trouble.
Mazda, Subaru, Nissan and Mitsubishi are paring output to battle the bottleneck, and production suspensions will dent output across Japan in July. The downtime amounts mostly to a smattering of days here and there, but it comes as Japan s automakers try to steer through a global shortage that began in late 2020.