The Yokohama-based company is planning to cut 9,000 jobs, equivalent to 6.7% of its 133,580 global employees. Uchida declined to give any details about the timing or location of the job and production cuts. Nissan's North American headquarters is in Nashville, and it has manufacturing plants in Tennessee and Mississippi with nonunion workforces.

Nissan Motor said Thursday that it was planning deep cuts to its global operations as it seeks to reorient its business and recover ground lost in the growing markets for hybrid and electric vehicles in China and the United States.