Mitsubishi Electric admits to faking test data on transformers (asahi.com)

> The company’s chairman and president resigned last year to take responsibility.

> Since then, the company has stressed its commitment to preventing this from occurring again.

not enough, the entire company should take responsibility

Volkswagen had to pay billions in fines, recall millions of cars and the CEO got arrested

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

But i guess since it's the japanese, people will forgive them, after all if a Chernobyl happen again, it's fine, no big deal right

I guess there was more than meets the eye here.

Not surprising, Japanese conglomerates are pressure cookers, especially the subsidiaries in unsexy industries competing on a low margin product far away from Tokyo.