In 1979, Ford acquired a 24.5% ownership stake in Mazda, and in 1982 Ford and Mazda jointly established a sales channel to sell Ford products in Japan, including vehicles manufactured in North America, at a dealership called "Autorama (Japanese)".
Po drugi svetovni vojni, Ford ni bil prisoten na Japonskem, saj je Fordov objekt prisvojila japonska vlade do leta 1958, ko je bilo premoženje vrnjeno in postalo center za raziskave in razvoj za Fordov partner Mazda .