"The boss of another company came out, bowed deeply, and then said sorry ..." On July 2, the familiar scene was repeated in mitsubishi electric Company.
On the same day, President Takeshi Sugiyama apologized to the public and resigned because of exposure of false inspection data. According to media reports, mitsubishi electric's fraud may have lasted for more than 30 years.
In recent years, many well-known Japanese companies have been deeply involved in fraud scandals, which has caused public outcry and shocked the industry.
From Kobe Steel, Kobayashi Chemical, Takada Airbag, Dawning Company to Toyota, Nissan, Subaru and other well-known automobile companies ... The manufacturing giants supporting the Japanese economy broke out one after another, which made "Made in Japan" fall into an unprecedented crisis of trust.
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According to many media reports, Nagasaki Factory in mitsubishi electric did not test the control performance and power consumption of air-conditioning products in trains in full accordance with the requirements of users, but forged the test data. This illegal practice may last for more than 30 years.
At present, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has been involved in the investigation.
Xinhua News Agency quoted the Japan News Agency as saying that mitsubishi electric's train air conditioners have the largest share in Japan's domestic market, and not only ordinary trains but also Shinkansen trains are equipped with such air conditioners.
The East Japan Railway Company revealed that Shinkansen and others imported about 9,800 air-conditioning equipment from mitsubishi electric. More than half of them may be illegal products.
According to Japanese media reports, the scandal involved a wide range, including rail vehicles, subways and even earthquake safety equipment, and there may be data fraud problems. The scandal also made the market widely question the fairness of Japanese industrial quality testing.
This is not the first time that Mitsubishi Group has been exposed to fraud.
From June 5438 to February 2020, it was revealed that mitsubishi electric exported a large number of auto parts that did not meet local standards to European auto companies and forged relevant documents, which lasted for three years;
2065438+February 2008, a wholly-owned subsidiary of mitsubishi electric was exposed to produce counterfeit rubber parts, which were sent to customers without testing;
In 20 17, Mitsubishi electric wire industry, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi group, was exposed to falsify millions of product data, including Boeing and Airbus.
20 16 Mitsubishi motors admitted to falsifying fuel consumption, involving more than 600,000 vehicles, and the falsification began on 20 13. ...
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Not only Mitsubishi Group, in recent years, a number of well-known companies have successively exploded fraud scandals, which has caused the "Made in Japan" that once represented high quality to fall into a crisis of confidence.
In February this year, Japanese auto parts supplier Shuguang Brake Industry Co., Ltd. apologized to the public that the data of more than 1 10000 brakes and parts produced by its four local factories had been tampered with or fabricated.
Shuguang also admitted that the related fraud can be traced back to at least 200 1 year, with a time span of 20 years, involving more than 10 Japanese car companies including Toyota and Nissan.
From June, 5438 to February, 2020, a drug produced by Kobayashi Chemical Co., Ltd. in Japan was accused of being mixed with hypnotic ingredients more than 2.5 times the maximum limit, resulting in the health damage of more than 200 patients.
Subsequent investigation found that about 80% of nearly 500 kinds of drugs in Xiaolin Chemical had fraudulent records, and the fraudulent behavior lasted for 40 years.
August 20 17, Kobe steel works, a famous Japanese steel company, was found to have tampered with the data and shoddy it. The tampering history of some products has reached 10 years. Its "victims" include more than 500 Japanese and foreign enterprises, affecting many industries such as automobile, railway, aviation and aerospace.
Takada Corporation of Japan, one of the three largest airbag manufacturers in the world, has been exposed to fraud since 2008. By June of 20 17, when Takada Company, which was deeply involved in the safety and fraud scandal, declared bankruptcy, the airbag safety problem in Takada had existed for more than 10 years, with hundreds of millions of faulty airbags and the recall cost as high as tens of billions of dollars, making it the biggest automobile recall event in history.
Toray, Japan's largest manufacturer of fiber chemicals, is also mired in fraud scandals. In 20 17, Dongli publicly admitted that from April 2008 to July 20 16, data fraud was carried out on auxiliary materials related to enhancing the strength of automobile tires, which affected the customers of 13 company.
20 18 Kawasaki heavy industries illegally thinned the chassis, which caused the chassis of JR west Japan shinkansen to break. ...
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Successive scandals not only damaged the reputation of the enterprises involved, but also made the myth of "Made in Japan" disappear.
Now, the Japanese government no longer argues that fraud is only a "case", but that a series of scandals have failed to live up to the high trust of all sectors of society in "Made in Japan". "Such a scandal has shaken the foundation of fair trade in enterprises."
For a long time, "Made in Japan" has been world-renowned for its precision, rigor and excellent quality. Nowadays, people are puzzled by the growing fraud scandal. What happened to "Made in Japan"?
Some analysts believe that Japan can take the lead in the global manufacturing field, and technological innovation and craftsmanship are its two magic weapons. And a large number of corporate fraud just shows that these two magic weapons have gone wrong.
In the eyes of market participants, the fraud incident has exposed the problems existing in the process of technological transformation of Japanese enterprises, and it is an indisputable fact that their industrial restructuring has stagnated.
Especially in the face of the new wave of science and technology, many Japanese companies are caught in the "maladjustment" of new technologies and emerging formats. Many enterprises do not pay attention to the upgrading of their own industrial structure, which leads to the slow upgrading of industrial structure and is difficult to cope with the impact from technologically developed countries and emerging developing countries.
Innovation and technological leadership are impossible. Some former "star enterprises" can only start with raw materials and product technologies, and there is a large room for human operation-fraud often happens under such circumstances.
Once faked, the so-called craftsman spirit can only be reduced to a joke.
"Made in Japan", which once enjoyed unlimited scenery, is now in a crisis of confidence, which is of warning significance to enterprises in other countries. As some media have commented, enterprises will pay a heavy price if they want to further innovate in technological progress, cost control and management mechanism, and maintain false prosperity by means of counterfeiting.