Dayton Daily News, Ohio, Jim Dillon column.

Byline: Jim Dillon

May 15--AFTER 24 YEARS, CAR BIAS HAS CHANGED: Could Japanese car-bashing come back in vogue?

Perhaps you read the story in Saturday's Dayton Daily News about the meeting this weekend between the leaders of General Motors Corp. and Toyota Corp.

GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and Toyota President Fujio Cho were to meet so they could discuss possible joint projects, including the development of fuel cell cars and production of so-called hybrid cars.

But another object of the meeting, some auto industry observers speculated, was to head off any rising anti-Japanese sentiment here in the United States.

Some Japanese …