Here is a blog post noting events in Japan.
As he says in perspective a cut back in employees here will be minor for Toyota. But stop and think,
if one had predicted disaster for the toyota plant here just two years ago, one would have been hooted out of town. But that is what happened, in its first major strategy mistake, Toyota bet on big pickups and gasoline prices soared and the economy collapsed, they should have stuck to their knitting and left that market to GM and Ford and Ddoge, after all they have most of the formerly small pickup now a large pickup itself market.
Predicting social outcomes is not physics, trends can change radically as the author of The Black Swan points out.
Professor Elam 
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