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For Fumihiro Shimizu and his family-owned auto parts plant in this company town, being a second-tier supplier for Japan's top car makers has never been easy.

Even in the boom years, margins were squeezed as Toyota Motor Corp and others extracted maximum value from suppliers to fight off competition from overseas rivals and keep prices down.



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