Sendai, one of the largest cities in northeastern Japan has seen 260, 000 people evacuated in the past three days.
"This might be a good turning point, " Tashiro said about the concern over damaged nuclear plants in northeastern Japan.
Then the tsunami and quake hit in northeastern Japan, in 2011, crippling production.
The latest concern in the region is a radiation leak from the Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan.
Toyota's recovery tale is being repeated at other Japanese automakers, which saw production disruptions from the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake in northeastern Japan.
For all of the hashtags and well wishes, the suffering of those affected by the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile or the tsunami in northeastern Japan remain all too real.
Toyoda referred to the quality woes, as well as the other recent crises such as the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan and the flooding in Thailand that followed.
Official estimates of the death count from the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on Friday have remained around 1, 000, but reports suggest that the toll could climb much higher.
Toyoda wept openly during one emotional show of support from Toyota dealers in the U.S. Then in 2011, an earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan wiped out auto suppliers and Toyota's vehicle production plunged.
The Japanese maker of the Prius hybrid and Camry sedan reclaimed its crown as world's top automaker last year, after losing it to GM a year earlier, when it was battered by the tsunami and quake disasters in northeastern Japan.
Meanwhile, the weaker yen means higher costs for rising imports of natural gas, which is priced in dollar terms, to help compensate for the loss of nuclear power generation capacity after most atomic power plants remain closed after the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
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