Local plant catches eye of economic leaders
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Ted Takebayashi, left, vice president of ISS America, speaks with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, center, as Mitsuhiro Wada, right, Japan’s consulate general at Detroit, and Atsuyuki Oike, minister plenipotentiary of the Japanese Embassy, look into shipping containers of spark plug cylinders made at the ISS plant in Bellefontaine during a Thursday tour. (EXAMINER PHOTO | REUBEN MEES) Jordan lays out position on Trump for Japanese delegates One topic of great concern to a group of Japanese emissaries who visited a Bellefontaine plant Thursday was who will be elected to lead the country in November. They posed their questions to 4th District U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, who joined the three-member delegation on a tour of ISS America, 301 Carter Ave. While Rep. Jordan openly admitted that — early in the primary process — he didn’t support Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, he said he now does. More in Friday’s Examiner.
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The success of a Bellefontaine auto parts plant, which has increased its sales fivefold since first opening here just four years ago, caught the attention of leaders in the Japanese economic sector and prompted a Thursday afternoon visit from a delegation of emissaries.
“We are recommended to come here as an expanding business. It’s a rising star in Japanese business,” Atsuyuki Oike, the minister plenipotentiary and deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, said during a visit to the ISS America’s plant at 301 Carter Ave.
“We are very happy to see a Japanese company expanding.”
Mr. Oike was part of a delegation that included Mitsuhiro Wada, consul general of the Japanese Embassy in Detroit, and Satomi Yanagidani, second secretary of the economic sector of the Japanese Embassy in Washington.
“We are very proud to be chosen,” ISS vice president Ted Takebayashi said of the visit. “I try to contribute. The three Cs of this company are the customer, the community and the company, which are the associates and our suppliers. We try to make it a win-win-win situation for all three.”
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