Daihatsu Motor Co. says its President Soichiro Okudaira will step down over a safety testing scandal as the Toyota Motor Corp. small car manufacturing unit aims to bolster its governance while restructuring under a new management team.
Toyota's subsidiary Daihatsu's President and Chairman will step down. Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT) has accepted a request initiated by Daihatsu Motor for removal from CJPT in light of procedural irregularities in certification applications.
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A Japanese automaker that cheated on safety tests for decades said Monday it doesn’t expect to resume shipping cars any time soon. The Japanese government ordered a subsidiary of Toyota to halt production of its entire lineup after reports of faked safety test results emerged last year. The Daihatsu Motor Co. skipped mandatory safety tests…