[Joe Hadenuf]

Toyota's building a new plant in San Antonio expected to create around 16,000 new jobs, directly employing 2,000.

How many American automobile manufacturers are building new plants in Japan?

[discostu]

None, land in Japan is too damned expensive. That's part of why they're building plants here. Plus we're the biggest car market in the world, and the tarriffs a lot cheaper on raw material (what you import into a factory) than finished goods (what you import into a dealership). And finally the American manufacturers are still making second rate cars and having a hard time earning any money with crappy cars.