Kimiyuki Suda should be a perfect customer for Japan’s car-makers. He’s a young, successful executive at an Internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable 1. He used to own Toyota’s Hilux Surf, a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses2 subways and trains. “It’s not inconvenient at all,” he says. 3, “having a car is so 20th century.” 　　Suda reflects a worrisome 4 in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal 5, among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic devices. 6 mini-cars and luxury foreign brands are still popular, everything in between is 7. Last year’s sales fell 6.7 percent, 7.6 percent8 you don’t count the mini-car market. There have been 9 one-year drops in other nations: sales in Germany fell 9 percent in 2007 10 a tax increase. But experts say Japan is 11 in that sales have been decreasing steadily12 time. Since 1990, yearly new-car sales have fallen from 7.8 million to 5.4 million units in 2007. 　　Alarmed by this state of 13, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) 14 a comprehensive study of the market in 2006. It found that a 15wealth gap, demographic changes and16 lack of interest in cars led Japanese to hold their 17 longer , replace their cars with smaller ones 18 give up car ownership altogether .JAMA 19 a further sales decline of 1.2 percent this year. Some experts believe that if the trend continues for much longer, further consolidation in the automotive sector is 20.