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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Japanese Cars, Made In America (1982)
Description: It's October 30th. This day (technically November 2nd) in 1982, a Honda Accord rolls off the assembly line at a new plant in Marysville, Ohio -- the first Japanese car made by American workers.Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the rise of Japanese auto manufacturing throuhgout the 1970s, the arguments over protectionism and American manufacturing that arose as a result -- and the compomise during the Reagan era to have the automakers build plants in the United States.Sign up for our America250 Watch newsletter, where you'll also get links and lots more historical tidbits.<...