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The eBearing News
June 17, 2004
Mitsubishi Executives Arrested
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Following last month's indictments of seven Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (Japan) executives,
several have been arrested and charged in relation to systematic coverups of dangerous
failures involving Fuso trucks. A Fuso wheel-off bearing hub failure caused the 2002
death of a young mother in Hiroshima. Also in 2002, a Fuso driver was killed when he lost
control after the clutch cover failed and damaged the brake lines.
Former executives and current MMC officials have been charged by Japanese prosecutors in
the wheel-off death. The most recent arrests are over the clutch defect.
• detailed article: Fuso wheel bearing hub failures prompt recall campaign
• detailed article: Seven Mitsubishi executives indicted in wheel-off death
Among those arrested was MMC's former President Katsuhiko Kawasoe.
Prefect Police also reported five other executives had been arrested and charged with, "professional
negligence leading to death", including Fuso's former President and Vice President.
Yoichiro Okazaki, the current President of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., issued yet another
public apology for the arrests and the company's decades-long "corporate culture of concealment" to
cover up widespread problems with Mitsubishi and Fuso vehicles.
Hundreds of thousands of Mitsubishi and Fuso cars and trucks have been recalled in a dozen
campaigns so far in 2004, on top of two million recalled in 2000-2001.
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