Thai flooding has slashed Japanese automakers' output by about 6,000 units a day and forced Sony Corp to delay the launches of some cameras and lens kits, the electronics company and a car industry body said on Thursday.
The natural disaster, now threatening Bangkok, has echoes of the supply chain disruption caused by Japan's earthquake and tsunami, and has affected a raft of Japanese firms.
Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Chairman Toshiyuki Shiga, who is also chief operating officer for Nissan Motor Co , told reporters he could not say when production would be restored at Japanese plants in Thailand.
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