As I said, situations and foreign relationships change. Japan isn't always 100% anti-China, doesn't always do as what the US orders and tries to balance itself somwhere between the US and China. Plus what's different from the recent boycotts against some foreign companies is that it wasn't the Japanese car makers that were to blame. Short-lived so what? I see no reason why the boycott on Japanese cars should be permenant.Anyway, you're missing the point. The Chinese "boycott" was short-lived. Even before Xi became President, Japanese car sales recovered.
Nonetheless, THAAD was already deployed, measures needed to be taken. The deployment of THAAD is a more significant threat than what you mentioned on some Japan's relations with Taiwan.The current South Korean government is more pro-China than Japan's is. For a start it refused sales of the T-50 to Taiwan, which originally Taipei wanted as a trainer. Whereas Japan is providing technical assistance for Taiwan building its own submarines. Japan also has a greater depth of governmental relations with Taiwan compared to South Korea.
That's a huge difference on foreign policy on what the CCP repeatedly says is a core political matter.
That's your opinion. There is a wide spectrum of popular on a huge market. What I meant wasn't about just cars themselves, it's more about general trust on the company.That's a point of convenience for those manufacturers. I don't think it's a reason people buy those cars - cars made in Japan were also popular.
They recovered after the anti-Japan sentiment calmed down. Toyota started local production of hybrid cars in China and lowered the prices long time ago.See above. Sales of Japanese cars have been consistently good and were good before the subsidies.
Chinese brands don't just replicate foreign brands, and acceptance and popularity of Chinese brands are already significant and fast growing. Many Chinese brands make reliable, good quality items and Chinese people think so.Isn't this rather the point? That Chinese people buy what they think are reliable, good quality items. Therefore, contrary to what emblem suggested, it's not straightforward just to replicate a foreign brand, say it's Chinese and then expect people to change their shopping habits.