With the new model, the production program of the Japanese brand in Russia has increased to 25,000 units a year.

He noted that popular Japanese brands were experiencing declines as well.

Among the imports, Japanese brands had the best record, dropping by 25 percent, to 119 defects per 100 cars.

Before 1980, loyalty to American and Japanese brands was roughly the same.

As a group, Japanese brands scored best in the latest survey, averaging 111 problems for each 100 vehicles.

In 1978 and 1982, for instance, Japanese brands received 91 and 90 percent shares.

Yaesu is a Japanese brand of commercial and amateur radio equipment.

Touch the man on his Japanese brand of machismo and you've got him.

That it was a Japanese brand did not for the moment matter.

And if they do not cut production costs, the Japanese brands may price themselves even out of their home market.