Closing the plant was forced to do by Nissan after seeing the situation getting out of hand. For starters, while Nissan will close their factories for a week while waiting for the state of calm.
"(Nissan) has suspended production at a small factory in Egypt for one week beginning on Sunday after the outbreak of protests in Cairo," said a spokesman for Nissan, Toshitake Inoshita as quoted by Reuters on Monday (1/31/2011).
As in Egypt, Nissan is now the second largest car manufacturer in Japan assembled various car models like the X-Trail, Sunny and model pick-up at their plant in Giza, near the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
"(Factory) produced 10,043 units in the business year ended in March 2010," explained Inoshita.
Nissan Japan itself has four employees at the plant. As a result of the closure, is now Japan's fourth employee was evacuated to a hotel outside Cairo on the grounds of safety.
Previously reported unrest in Egypt have been broken for about a week later. More than 100 people were killed and 2,000 people injured in the demonstration against Hosni Mubarak's government. It is still not known exactly how many police and demonstrators who were killed. People of Egypt Hosni Mubarak demanded the decline that has 32 years of rule.