Toyota shutters factories as typhoon approaches

Stay safe everyone!

"From today's No. 2 (afternoon) shift through tomorrow's No. 1 (daytime) shift, we will suspend all the production lines at domestic factories," a Toyota spokesman told AFP.

That's strange, as the typhoon won't be hitting Aichi until well after that, like late Friday or Saturday.

Don’t climb on your roof to fix the shingles, everybody, and you should be just fine.

Well, Kawara then. But a lot of people may not know the term so I changed it to a familiar term for ‘em.

garypenToday  06:41 pm JST

"From today's No. 2 (afternoon) shift through tomorrow's No. 1 (daytime) shift, we will suspend all the production lines at domestic factories," a Toyota spokesman told AFP.

That's strange, as the typhoon won't be hitting Aichi until well after that, like late Friday or Saturday.

Toyota has a factory in Kyushu.

800,000 people have been evacuated as the storm approaches. It seems that there is quite a lot of worry and the evacuations are a safety matter. It is expected to be one of the worst storms ever to hit the area. Preparedness seems sensible. The storm might veer off and not hit, or it may lose its power, but I'd be heading my way out of there now. I'm very susceptible to heavy things falling on me or to winds that could blow me away. Guard your safety.

If they have a factory to go back tomorrow,metal.frame structure are not immune from Typhoon,but lots of them sustain damage from an updraft

Alongfortheride

Toyota has a factory in Kyushu.

If that's the one they are referring to, then it should have been stated. But, closing all domestic factories on Wednesday and Thursday makes no sense, as the typhoon doesn't hit west and central Japan until Friday and Saturday.