Hoping to boost car ownership in a shrinking domestic market, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association will ask the government to lower car-related taxes to ease the financial burden on automobile owners, the newly appointed head of the car industry group said Tuesday.
"What we are insisting on behalf of car users is . . . a review of the tax rates, if the government will review its spending," JAMA Chairman Satoshi Aoki said in an interview.
Aoki, also the chairman of Honda Motor Co., took the helm of JAMA last month.