Toyota Sales Department

The latest, according to the Financial Times:

Embattled Toyota Chief Agrees to Testify

"Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s embattled chief executive, agreed on Thursday to appear before a US congressional committee investigating his company as lawmakers stepped up their scrutiny of the Japanese carmaker with a subpoena for documents held by one of its former attorneys.

Mr Toyoda accepted a formal request, issued by the Democratic chairman of the House oversight committee, Edolphus Towns, to appear at a hearing next Wednesday.

“I look forward to speaking directly with Congress and the American people,” Mr Toyoda said." -more

* * * When I was a kid, something that was "made in Japan" was shoddily built and unreliable ...while American-made goods were reliable.