When I visited Toyota’s Tsutsumi plant in Toyota City, Japan, last summer, it was as if I’d entered a bizarro auto world. Back then, America’s carmakers were effectively wards of the state, technological laggards operating at a fraction of capacity. Yet here was a solvent, fully automated factory running three shifts, churning out Priuses—some equipped with solar panels in the roof. [...]

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