Toyota Motor Corp. has revised upward its group operating profit projection for the year through March to ¥1.05 trillion from ¥1 trillion, despite struggling along with other Japanese automakers with faltering sales in China.
Chinese consumers are increasingly shunning Japanese products in the face of the bitter territorial row over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
Toyota owes its success to expanding its presence uniformly in overseas markets without being influenced by a slump in one region.