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TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. resumed car creation at every of its plants in Nihon weekday for the prototypal instance since the March 11 seism and tsunami, but said the factories module separate at half power due to parts shortages.

The world's No. 1 automaker said it was ease struggling to bonded around 150 types of machine parts. The magnitude-9.0 seism and ensuing wave blasted parts factories in north Japan, causing nonindulgent shortages of components.

The twin disasters forced Toyota to closed down every creation in Nihon eliminate at threesome plants, which hit been running at restricted power since New March and primeval April to display hot-selling Prius, Lexus and Corolla cars.

Yasuhiro Tadokoro, an official at Toyota's machine being in Miyagi, one of the worst-hit areas in the disasters, said he felt relieved that the factory was again running.

"Finally, we crapper control our plant. I am so relieved that we crapper intend backwards to impact for the prototypal instance since the tsunami," he said.

The Miyagi being — Toyota's newest machine factory in Nihon — began dealings in February. The being suffered secondary damage due to the quake, Tadokoro said. Toyota makes Yaris compact sedans at the Miyagi factory for export to North America.

Toyota module ready creation at every its Asian plants at half power until April 27, and then prevent creation from April 28 to May 9, a punctuation that includes Golden Week holidays when factories would normally close.

The consort module uphold creation in Nihon from May 10 to June 3 at half of connatural levels. Toyota has said it module end later on creation plans after June 6.

Last month's disasters hit caused Toyota a creation loss of 260,000 cars, Toyota spokeswoman Shiori Hashimoto said.

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