Japan’s carmakers are staging their first motor display in 4 years to make the case they’ll stay main international forces to be reckoned with within the electric-vehicle age.The rebadged Japan Mobility Display can be counter-programming of types to worrisome developments: the host nation might neatly lose its place as the sector’s best automotive exporter to China, and third-largest economic system to Germany this 12 months. With their home marketplace shrinking and portions of Europe and the USA abruptly embracing EVs, Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and their friends are below escalating drive to transition from interior combustion engines.