By Chang-Ran Kim

(Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co (7201.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Renault SA (RENA.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) do not have any plans to combine the two firms under a holding company structure, Nissan said, denying a newspaper report citing CEO Carlos Ghosn as saying he was leaning toward such a move.

The Nikkei business daily said on Thursday that Ghosn had told the newspaper that he was looking at putting the automakers under a single umbrella, and that the transition to that structure could take place in two to three years.

March 31 (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co and Renault SA
do not have any plans to reorganise their alliance
under a holding company structure, Nissan said, denying a
newspaper report citing CEO Carlos Ghosn as saying he was
leaning towards such a move.

The Nikkei business daily said on Thursday that Ghosn had
told the newspaper that he was looking at forming a holding
company and that the change could take place in two to three
years.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese automakers including Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Nissan Motor Co (7201.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Tuesday it would be some time before they could return to full production after Japan’s devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami disrupted supplies to their plants.

With some 500 parts affected, a Toyota spokesman said it was impossible to say when production would resume in full. A source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters that the automaker had told its main suppliers not to expect production to restart until at least April 11 — exactly a month from the quake.

TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co said on
Tuesday it would be some time before it would return to full
production after Japan’s devastating March 11 earthquake and
tsunami disrupted supplies to its plants.

CEO Carlos Ghosn told workers at one of the company’s
factories in the stricken northeast he wanted to bring the site
back to full production levels by early June at the latest.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Lost production in the two weeks since an earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan tops a third of a million vehicles, and it could be months, rather than weeks, before the country’s automakers get back on track.

Modern-day cars have as many as 30,000 parts, 70-80 percent of which are supplied by hundreds of component makers. A single missing bolt can halt assembly lines and set off a chain reaction in the industry’s famed just-in-time manufacturing process.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Supply chain disruptions in Japan have forced at least one global automaker to delay the launch of two new models and are forcing other industries to shutter plants and rethink their logistical infrastructure.

Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it would delay the launch in Japan of two new additions to the Prius line-up, a wagon and a minivan, from the originally planned end-April due to production disruptions from this month’s devastating earthquake.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Supply chain disruptions in Japan have forced at least one global automaker to delay the launch of two new models and are forcing other industries to shutter plants and rethink their logistical infrastructure.

Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Wednesday it would delay the launch in Japan of two new additions to the Prius line-up, a wagon and a minivan, from the originally planned end-April due to production disruptions from this month’s devastating earthquake.

TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) – Supply chain disruptions in
Japan have forced at least one global automaker to delay the
launch of two new models and are forcing other industries to
shutter plants and rethink their logistical infrastructure.

Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it would delay
the launch in Japan of two new additions to the Prius line-up, a
wagon and a minivan, from the originally planned end-April due
to production disruptions from this month’s devastating
earthquake.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) – His boss and wife both missing, his house shredded, and his town flattened by a tsunami, Takao Sato and his volunteer fire brigade have been toiling every day since the disaster to find the dead and missing.

Retrieving corpses in the pine tree-lined Japanese beach town of 23,000 is a sad new experience for Sato, who inherited both his spot in the brigade and a tiny forestry business from his father decades ago.

TONO, Japan (Reuters) – More than a week after an earthquake and tsunami smashed much of Japan’s northeast coast to pulp, a small tourist town tucked safely between mountains has ground nearly to a halt.

Tono, a city of 30,000 about 30 km (20 miles) from the Pacific, usually enjoys a steady flow of visitors attracted to the birthplace of much Japanese folklore, including ghoulish tales of mountain spirits and mythical creatures.