From Anthony HensonPresent May 19, 2025
It is difficult to say whether Nissan’s consideration of closing his Japanese production facilities is a strategic step to cause a government rescue von for the government, but one thing is clear: Nissan is in serious difficulties. In Japan, two car assembly facilities together with factories in overseas, including those in Mexico-in frames of the cost reduction plan, which the company announced last week, are checked.
What we observe with Nissan is a restructuring of multi-corporation-multi-corporation-a company that has come into a corner due to years of market decline and strategic failure, its favorite solution is now turning to: Cutting employees.
According to reports, Nissan is considering closing two of his long-standing Japanese assembly facilities-Oppama and Shonan, a movement that would reduce the footprint in Germany to just three factories. Productions in South Africa, India, Argentina and possibly two in Mexico in the Häferblock are also internationally.
All of this takes place under the deck CEO, Ivan Espinosawho made a clear departure from the vision of his predecessor to global expansion. Instead of standing with the structural problems that the auto industry – including overcapacity, falling demand and technological disorders – plague how many of his colleagues, use Nissan for the oldest corporate trick in the book: Slashing work and consolidating operations.
The numbers draw a dark picture. Nissan’s vehicle sale in the 2024 financial year was only 3.3 million – has decreased by 42% since 2017. To “solve” this crisis Factory Basis of 17 to 10.
This is not about innovation or efficiency. It is about preserving the profits in view of the decline, regardless of human costs. Thousands of workers, many with decades of experience, are now exposed to unemployment, while Nissan’s reduction in costs surrounds as a “strategic realignment”.
Even if Japanese media report on these impending closures, Nissan insists that the details are “speculative”.
