David Fickling, Columnist

The Land That GM Forgot

The country's auto market simply isn't a particularly attractive investment.

February 1, 2017 at 5:32 AM UTC

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

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U.S. automakers' failure to sell their cars in Japan has been a gripe for Detroit since the Carter administration. Another round of whingeing looks set to begin.

"It's not fair," the Nikkei Asian Review quoted President Donald Trump as telling a meeting of chief executives at the White House Monday. "They do things to us that make it impossible to sell cars in Japan."