By Makiko Yamazaki and Kentaro Sugiyama

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s top automobile industry union group has no plans to scale back its wage demands at labour talks next year despite a heavy drag on the sector’s earnings from U.S. tariffs, its chief told Reuters on Friday.

The comment from Akihiro Kaneko, president of the Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers’ Unions (JAW), underscores the determination of Japan’s most influential industrial umbrella union to keep wage momentum going into a fourth year.

“With inflation persisting and real wages still lagging, there’s simply no option to go into next year’s wage talks with a weaker stance than last year,” Kaneko said in an interview.

“We do recognise that the auto industry is in a critical situation, with the severe hit to automakers’ e

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