Marking a fourth straight month of increases, Toyota said the supply-chain crunch for automobile parts caused by COVID-19 has now eased.
Domestic output of new vehicles shrunk by 3.3 percent to 266,174 units because persistent semiconductor shortages dampened the production of new units.
Overseas output rose 3.8 percent to 566,930, also a record figure for November, with North American production increasing by 5.9 percent.
Production in
Overseas sales increased by 4.4 percent to 686,499 vehicles, with North American sales jumping by 11 percent.
Sales in
Domestic sales, including minivehicles, decreased 5.5 percent to 109,985 units.
Toyota stated in November it planned to cut its global output from 9.7 million units to 9.2 million units for fiscal 2022 ending in March, citing semiconductor shortages.
The shortages had led it to suspend operations of 11 assembly lines in
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