The market share held by foreign makers is around 30 percent.
But the company still lost market share to foreign auto makers.
General Motors and foreign auto makers said they would study the issue.
Other foreign auto makers report such sales figures at the end of the month.
Then there is the question of just how many new cars are sold by foreign auto makers in Japan.
He wandered through the Chrysler section, and then off to the foreign makers.
He did consider offers from foreign auto makers but decided for family reasons not to go abroad.
But the biggest question is how large a share foreign auto makers will capture of this huge and growing market.
The lending arms of the big domestic and foreign auto makers are in particularly good financial shape right now for a rate war.
It was the first time a foreign auto maker won since Jaguar in 1954.