The local arms of Toyota and Mitsubishi, while Japanese-owned, remain keen on retaining or even increasing local content.
Meanwhile, DaimlerChrysler is handing responsibility for the Smart to Mitsubishi Motors, its new Japanese partner.
Similarly, Ripplewood managed to recruit several senior Japanese to its board, including Minoru Makihara, then chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation, the trading and investment firm that epitomises the Japanese establishment.
Ford's other main rival, DaimlerChrysler, may be taking a risk buying 34% of Mitsubishi Motors, just as the Japanese firm has revealed that it has covered up product defects for 20 years, but at least it has used Mitsubishi's problems to force down the asking price and to install its own man as chief operating officer.
When we look at Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, Subaru, Mitsubishi and Mazda, how significantly will the Japanese crises affect production and the flow of the supply chain on domestic and other automakers?
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Among individual stocks, Japanese vehicle maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. jumped more than 16 percent after raising its group net profit forecast for the year ending March 2013, Kyodo News reported.
Rodgers needed to list just a few cases to make her point: the Japanese auto manufacturer Mitsubishi, the investment firm Smith-Barney, the Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, the president of the United States - on two counts.
Among Japanese car makers, Mitsubishi Motor's market share fallen amid safety fears and product recalls.
Japanese giants Marubeni, Mitsubishi and Tomen are partners in a consortium of firms searching for oil in Iran.
REITs offer investors a middle way between the high-risk, high-return vulture funds and stodgy, low-return Japanese property developers, such as those attached to the Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo keiretsu.
The second tier of Peugeot, Fiat, Hyundai, Honda and Mitsubishi all have 3-5% market shares, and all but the Japanese duo depend on their home region.
In return Boeing has sourced an ever increasing share of its manufactured content from Japanese corporations like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toray, and Panasonic.
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In partnership with Japanese LNG shippers Mitsui and Mitsubishi, Shell hopes to tap 17 trillion cubic feet of gas (that's 3 billion BOE) and 1.2 billion barrels of oil.
Meanwhile, in March Mitsubishi ended its 20-year alliance with Proton, which bases its cars on the Japanese firm's designs.
But then, in a Mitsubishi factory, he came across a British machine-tool salesman who told him that Japanese workers were getting three times as much out of their machines as their better paid British counterparts.
Koichi Hori, president of Boston Consulting Group's Japanese office, spent seven years early in his career at Mitsubishi Corp.
Japanese defence contractors, such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, are itching to expand co-operation in other military areas as well.
Originally designed as the Diamond I and manufactured by Mitsubishi in the early 1980s, the fast, light-cabin Japanese jet was purchased by Hawker Beechcraft Corporation and modified to become the Beechjet 400, the 400A and eventually the Hawker 400XP.
Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ and Morgan Stanley decided to merge their Japanese securities units, creating one of Japan's biggest brokers.
Other big Japanese shareholders may yet come to Mitsubishi's rescue, but given the bloated state of the global auto industry, that would be a mistake.
Although DaimlerChrysler has kept its stake low enough to avoid consolidating Mitsubishi's liabilities, it has now taken over management of the Japanese company, just as Renault did with Nissan, also of Japan, 18 months ago.
Among the eclectic choices: a computer game that solves scientific problems, a nonprofit co-founded by actor Matt Damon that leverages donor funds to provide microloans to clean water projects and a venture by Japanese technology giant Mitsubishi that makes ships move more efficiently through the ocean, cutting down on CO2 emissions.
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