This file photo shows workers checking Toyota Motor's cars at a plant of the company's subsidiary Central Motor at Ohira village in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, in 2011. Confidence among large ... more 

This file photo shows workers checking Toyota Motor's cars at a plant of the company's subsidiary Central Motor at Ohira village in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, in 2011. Confidence among large Japanese manufacturers worsened in the quarter ended September, the Bank of Japan said on Monday as businesses suffer amid a territorial spat with China less