Of course the BBC is blathering on about how Japan is "urging" the UK not to leave the EU without a deal. Leading the reader to assume this is because it will damage Japanese car trade and close the factories in Swindon and Tyne & Weir.
Until you actually read the EU publication on the Japan-EU trade deal which came into force in February.
Why are they so desperate to keep us in a deal? Because they have plans to pull all that manufacturing back to Japan and ship it to the EU without tariffs. If we leave without a deal they will be Forced to keep manufacturing in the UK or face tariffs on all that business as it comes from either Japan or the EU.
Now I don't know what the balance of manufacturing is between EU and UK for the output of these factories. However you can be sure of one thing, the UK will be a MASSIVE hole in these Japanese companies earnings if we leave the EU without a deal and they do not keep the factories in the UK.
The BBC, hard at work, screwing the people of the UK to stay within the EU....