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How Yutaka Katayama Taught Americans to Love Japanese Cars
Some of the best-selling cars in America are Japanese brands. In fact, American pickup trucks are the only vehicles that can top Japanese brands like Toyota, Honda and Nissan. And you can thank one man for a lot of the craze: Yutaka Katayama, the first president of Nissan in the U.S.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readSome of the best-selling cars in America are Japanese brands. In fact, American pickup trucks are the only vehicles that can top Japanese brands like Toyota, Honda and Nissan. And you can thank one man for a lot of the craze: Yutaka Katayama, the first president of Nissan in the U.S. He recently passed away, and we talk about his legacy in this week’s installment of our regular car segment.
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The full episode
3 of 5A Marijuana Legalization Push, How Narcissists Are Made and the Apple Watch- 0:00Lawmakers Want to Legalize Marijuana on Federal Level
- 8:32AEG Drops Football Stadium Plan
- 17:50How Yutaka Katayama Taught Americans to Love Japanese CarsYou’re reading this
- 26:20Raising Little Narcissists
- 41:24The Elitism of the Apple Watch