Japan’s top three automakers saw their output in China slashed by double digits in April, highlighting the toll Shanghai’s lockdown is taking on manufacturers operating in the world’s biggest car-producing nation. Honda Motor Co. production in China fell 81% from a year earlier last month, the automaker announced Monday. Output for Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. in the country slid 34% and 51% year-on-year, respectively. While Shanghai is in the process of rolling out scores of policies to support local manufacturers and revitalize an economy damaged by Covid-19 lockdowns, the Japanese automaker figures for April highlight the extent to which companies have struggled to produce in China over the past two months. Shanghai-related production cuts are also still being announced , underscoring how supply chain bottlenecks are persisting even as the city starts to reopen. Toyota’s China shipments fell due to “production suspensions at each plant resulting […]