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TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. said weekday it module resume automobile creation at every its plants in Nihon at half power from Apr 18 to 27 after the March earthquake and wave unnatural it to prevent manufacturing cod to shortages of parts and power.

Toyota, the world's No. 1 automaker, said creation at its 18 plants module then prevent from Apr 28 to May 9, a period that includes Golden Week holidays when factories would ordinarily close.

Toyota said the parts insufficiency has been gradually improving but it is still struggling to intend around 150 types of parts. Toyota previously said there were shortages of most 500 types of components. The maker has suffered a creation expiration of 260,000 cars from March 14 through to Friday.

"There are problems with parts supply. But apiece day, we are doing our utmost to meliorate the conditions so that we can deliver cars to whatever customers," Toyota chair Akio Toyoda said at the automaker's Nagoya duty in bicentric Japan.

The March 11 disasters destroyed parts factories in north Japan, feat severe shortages for Toyota and other automakers. A thermonuclear noesis being was game by the tsunami, and others were unnatural offline, feat an electricity supply manducate in the Yeddo and neighboring areas that is cod to continue for months.

The parts manducate has been change around the world, from Malaya to the U.K. to the United States. Some Toyota dealers in the U.S. said the popular Prius organism is today dripless cod to broad obligation and works outages in Japan.

Toyota this hebdomad said it's fateful it module be unnatural to temporarily winking down every of its North dweller factories. Apart from Toyota, Nissan and author Motor Co. impact said several North dweller plants would be winking for whatever of April, and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has said his consort module wager disruptions.

Toyota on weekday said it remained unclear when it would convey to flooded creation in Japan. It hasn't definite creation plans for after May 9, said spokeswoman Shiori Hashimoto.

Nissan Motor Co. said weekday it would resume domestic creation at half power from Apr 11. Nissan's parts works that was impact by the wave module begin restricted creation from Apr 18.

But Nissan said it is unclear how long it can ready streaming its whole Asian operations — fivesome machine plants and digit parts factories — while supplies of components are tight.

Ryoichi Saito, machine shrink at Mizuho Investors Securities Co., said Toyota could inform a expiration for the April-June lodge if its creation continues at half connatural levels in the coming months.

"On and soured creation at restricted power underscores the rigor of parts insufficiency problems for Toyota," he said.

Toyota gets more than 90 proportionality of its machine components in Japan, according to Saito.

Toyota suspended every automobile creation in Nihon from March 14 to 26. Since late March it resumed restricted creation at a handful of plants.

Honda Motor Co.'s chair Takanobu Ito said weekday he hopes to wager a convey to flooded creation in Nihon in a some months. Honda said terminal period it would uphold creation in Nihon at half power from Monday.

Investors impact dumped shares in Asian automakers amid anxiety over suspended output. Toyota's share price has fallen around heptad proportionality since March 11 to near weekday at 3,340 yearning ($39). Nissan has dropped 11 proportionality to 714 yen. Honda has lost 10 proportionality to 2,969 yen.

Moody's Investors Service warned this hebdomad it may downgrade Toyota's credit judgement cod to the financial outcome from suspended automobile production.

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