Ah, yes, Toyota is just another American company employing Americans

[1gobluedem]

Except, of course, when it comes to critical decision making.

"After a half-century of doing business in the U.S., Toyota still assigns a Japanese boss to mentor every American or European executive. No Toyota executive in America was autho¬rized to issue a recall. That included Jim Lentz, Toyota’s top American sales executive, and his boss, Yoshi Inaba, who oversees North America. “Most of the information was one¬way. … back to Japan,” Lentz testified before Congress in late February."

http://www.freep.com/article/20100308/BUSINESS01/3080373/1318/Toyotas-culture-rapid-growth-faulted-in-crisis