Japan quakes reveal again vulnerability of regional supply chains
Tokyo
A FEW days after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated large areas of North-east Japan in March, 2011, then president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and now governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) Haruhiko Kuroda warned about the dangers of natural disasters crippling Asian and even global production chains in which Japan is a key link.
That warning, issued in an interview with The Business Times, is echoing again now as key Japanese manufacturing giants such as Toyota, Honda, Sony, Mitsubishi Motors and oth…
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