Toyota Motor Corp.’s top North American executive said Japan should open its cash-for-clunkers program to U.S. automakers — potentially adding pressure on the Japanese government to change a program that so far has left U.S. companies on the sidelines.

“We support that it will be allowed,” Yoshi Inaba, 63, president of Toyota Motor North America Inc., told the Automotive News World Congress Tuesday night in response to a question about opening up Japan’s program.

Inaba added, though, that he would leave the issue to the U.S. and Japanese officials who have been in talks on the topic for several weeks.
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