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Why are secondhand Japanese cars so popular in Africa? July 25, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) Secondhand Japanese cars are seen lined up at a parking lot in a shopping mall in Zambia s capital Lusaka on June 1, 2021. (Mainichi/Mitsuyoshi Hirano) LUSAKA, Zambia (Mainichi) Japanese classic cars remain enduringly popular in Africa. As the continent has developed economically, imports of vintage Japanese vehicles have also risen. In the last 10 years, the market has almost doubled in size, with around 280,000 cars brought over in 2020. But in the shadow of all this success lie unexpected pitfalls. This reporter was in Zambia, an inland country in southern Africa, some 12,000 kilometers from Japan, when I suddenly heard my mother tongue: No card has been inserted, it said. It was the end of May and I had bundled into a car that came to pick me up from the airport in the capital, Lusaka. When the driver put the keys in the ignition, an automated Japanese voice had echoed in the ca

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