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Originally Posted by Crawford
I would imagine Detroit has, by far, the largest Japanese automotive expat population. Every Japanese automotive supplier/engineering concern is in Detroit. Novi, MI has a huge Japanese infrastructure, from Japanese signage in the hospital, to a Japanese school, to a bunch of restaurants and stores. The Detroit airport even has announcements in Japanese.
The vast majority of auto jobs are with the suppliers and engineering concerns, not the car companies themselves.
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Yeah... The Toyota R&D center for North America (Toyota Technical Center) is near Ann Arbor, and the CEO of Toyota North America was based in Metro Detroit at one point. But I'm not sure what the structure is now that Toyota has moved to Plano.