Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to build an automobile factory in Myanmar, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
An official announcement could come before the end of the month, with construction on the plant to start this year.
The plant would be located in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (see below) on the outskirts of Yangon and would assemble pickup trucks through so-called knockdown production, in which parts imported from Japan and other nearby nations are put together at the new plant.