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TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Toyota Motor Corp. outpaced the broader market Friday after the company posted strong sales data for last month, while analysts said it and others in Japan's auto and auto-parts sectors are poised for more growth due to their exposure to China. Toyota said Thursday that itsNike Jordan 2009 sales in China rose 33% in March to 61,200 vehicles. For the January-March quarter, Toyota's sales there were up 39% from a year earlier, to 178,700. Toyota incentives bring customers back Auto-sales figures show that Toyota's good deals and 0% financing trumped jitters over potential safety issues, at least for March. U.S. competitors matched the Japanese company's incentives. Shawn Langlois reports. The rise came despite the company's recent recall troubles. In January, Toyota recalled 75,552 of its RAV4 sport-utility vehicles in China, part of its global recall of more than 8 million vehicles for a variety of problems, including a gas-pedal problem that caused sudden acceleration. Toyota's U.S. sales were also strong, jumping 40.7% to 186,863 vehicles, thanks to strong demand for light trucks and sedans like the Camry and hybrid Prius. See full story on U.S. March auto sales data. In the past year, China has overtaken nike air jordan 6 rings shoes the U.S. as the world's largest auto market, and the country also appears poised to surpass Japan to become the world's second-largest economy. Japanese major automakers' China operations "appear entrenched and secure," said Macquarie Securities analysts Shih-Han Huang and Peter Eadon-Clarke in a recent report. Macquarie analysts rate Toyota /quotes/comstock/!7203 (JP:7203 3,720, -25.00, -0.67%) /quotes/comstock/13*!tm/quotes/nls/tm (TM 80.49, +0.07, +0.09%) and rival Honda Motor Co. /quotes/comstock/!7267 (JP:7267 3,290, -10.00, -0.30%) /quotes/comstock/13*!hmc/quotes/nls/hmc (HMC 35.54, +0.25, +0.71%) as outperform. In terms of auto parts, China's convoluted industrial history led to some supply inefficiencies, so with the exception of Shanghai, "the result was insufficient resources for auto-parts supply chain development," they said. They added that the industry in Guangdong province is dominated by Japanese auto-parts suppliers. "While we are optimistic on the long-term structural growth of the Chinese market, we believe auto-parts makers to be more direct plays on the market given the more lax regulations," the analysts said. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said last month that the country must nike air jordan countdown packs shoes strengthen quality assurance in its domestic auto industry as the rapid growth of the sector is in part leading to "hidden risks" for the public on product safety. But it didn't set forth any specific regulations or guidelines for companies. Other China-exposed auto-related issues that Macquarie rates as outperform are Toyota Boshoku Corp. /quotes/comstock/!3116 (JP:3116 1,731, -65.00, -3.62%) /quotes/comstock/11i!tdbof (TDBOF 19.00, +0.75, +4.11%) Bridgestone Corp. /quotes/comstock/!5108 (JP:5108 1,568, -28.00, -1.75%) /quotes/comstock/11i!brdcf (BRDCF 17.13, +1.13, +7.09%) and Denso Corp. /quotes/comstock/!6902 (JP:6902 2,785, 0.00, 0.00%) /quotes/comstock/11i!dnzof (DNZOF 29.64, -0.17, -0.56%) . For investors who want to follow China's auto market from the inside, Macquarie's top two picks are Dongfeng Motor Group /quotes/comstock/22h!e:489 (HK:489 13.36, +0.74, +5.86%) /quotes/comstock/11i!dnfgf (DNFGF 1.66, -1.66, -50.00%) and Weichai Power Co. /quotes/comstock/22h!e:2338 (HK:2338 67.35, +2.35, +3.62%) /quotes/comstock/11i!weicf (WEICF 7.40, +0.02, +0.27%) , both of which it rates as outperform. Other auto parts makers are gearing up to meet Chinese demand: Exedy Corp. /quotes/comstock/!7278 (JP:7278 2,268, -15.00, -0.66%) /quotes/comstock/11i!exdyf (EXDYF 24.14, -0.30, -1.22%) will double its Chinese output capacity for automotive transmission parts by early next year, Japanese business daily Nikkei reported Friday. The affiliate of Aisin Seiki Co. /quotes/comstock/!7259 (JP:7259 2,785, -15.00, -0.54%) /quotes/comstock/11i!asekf (ASEKF 26.95, +0.10, +0.37%) will add production lines for manual clutches at a Chongqing factory, doubling its output capacity. It will also upgrade a Shanghai factory to double capacity to 600,000 units of torque converters, a core component in automatic transmission systems. In afternoon trading, Exedy was up 1.5%,nike air jordan dub zeros shoes and Aisin Seiki was 1.7% higher. Shares of Toyota rose 1.6%, and Honda gained 1.7%. Bridgestone gained 0.3%, and Denso added 1.9%, although Toyota Boshoku slipped 2.1%. The Nikkei 225 Average and the broader Topix were each up 1.4%. Elsewhere in Asia, the Shanghai Composite and South Korea's Kospi each rose 0.1%. Markets in Hong Kong, Australia and several other countries were closed for Good Friday. Lisa Twaronite nike air jordan fusion 12 shoes is MarketWatch's Tokyo bureau chief. nike jordan nike jordan shoes air jordan air jordan shoes jordan shoes

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