Last year, Japan lost its position as the world’s third largest single car market. As a mature market, its sales are not as dynamic as those coming from big emerging markets such as India, the new number 3. Total passenger car sales dropped by 7% to 3.72 million units. Following the trend in many other markets, the Japanese results for last year were far away from the pre-pandemic levels, which in the case of Japan they were around 4.3 million units per year.