Automobile sales by Toyota Motor Corp. in Asia over the past year have outnumbered those in the Japanese market for the first time, due mainly to a steep sales increase in China, according to industry sources.
Toyota sold around 1.35 million vehicles in Asia in the first 11 months of 2009, up 4.5 percent from a year earlier, compared with 1.26 million in Japan.
(Source: The Japan Times Online)