Nissan Motor shares slumped 6% in Tokyo trade Friday, a day after the Japanese automaker said it would cut 9,000 jobs and a fifth of its manufacturing capacity as it struggles with sales in China and the United States.

“In this new climate and until we have more details on the restructuring plans, it is difficult to gauge whether Nissan will be able to reduce fixed costs as quickly as last time,” Goldman Sachs Japan Co. analyst Kota Yuzawa wrote in a note. The cost ...

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.