Companies with a Worldwide Presence Such as Toyota and Sony

Companies with a worldwide presence such as Toyota and Sony actually thrived when the Japanese economy entered a deep, sustained economic slump in the 1990s due to the fact that:

A) ​global trade reduced the company's dependence on the Japanese economy.
B) ​Japan has an absolute advantage in these fields over many other countries.
C) ​these companies produced goods in the U.S. instead of Japan during this period.
D) ​they started performing quality checks at the end of the production process.