Honda quarterly profit drops 38.3 percent
TOKYO – Honda Motor Co. says its quarterly profit dropped 38.3 percent due to a slump in car production following last month's earthquake and tsunami.
Honda said Thursday its profit for the January-March quarter shrank to 44.5 billion yen ($545 million).
The magnitutue-9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 destroyed many factories in northeastern Japan,
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The twin disasters forced Honda to shut down its entire production in Japan from March 14 to April 10,
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