I'd like to move on to his testimony in the United States just to get a clear understanding, because today we've heard that general managers make the decisions on recalls, but in his testimony on February 24 at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee On Oversight and Government Reform, Mr. Toyoda stated, and I quote:
Up to now, any decisions on conducting recalls have been made by the Customer Quality Engineering Division at Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan. This division confirms whether there are technical problems and makes a decision on the necessity of a recall.
This was also backed up by Mr. Lentz, who was actually testifying at another committee, and once again said that Toyota Japan makes decisions on recalls. That seems counter, though, to what you've just mentioned in terms of general managers.