Toyota sales have shown their first increase in China since the Sino-Japanese fall out over the Senkaku islands last autumn.
Sales edged up 0.3% from a year earlier to 79,000 units, the first rise since last September.
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The purchase of three of the five Senkaku islands by Japan, which are claimed by China, sparked protests and riots in China and led to bad feeling towards Japanese products.
Last September Toyota sales almost halved from the year-before level. For the whole of last year, Toyota and Nissan suffered their first sales drop in China since they started local production and sales there.
Toyota said it has no plans to change its China sales forecast for this year of over 900,000 units, up 7% from 2012.
