president
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
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Mitsubishi Motors
is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.Kurashiki, Okayama, before becoming president of the Pajero Manufacturing Co. subsidiary in
Sakahogi, Gifu
is a town located in Kamo District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 8,253 and a population density of 640 persons per km2, in 3359 households. The total area of the town was .
Geography
Sakahogi is located on ...
."Mitsubishi Motors Names New President, To Take Charge for Troubled U.S. Unit" AP-Dow Jones News Services, April 26, 1996 He was hired to replace the outgoing Nobuhisa Tsukahara, who was retiring due to health problems. Soon after taking the post, he outlined a long term strategy for expansion by introducing a wider range of vehicles, and to undercut competitors by focusing on low cost manufacturing." Mitsubishi priority: more new product. (interview with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Takemune Kimura)(Talk from the Top)(Interview)" James B Treece, ''Automotive News'', November 18, 1996
He and chairman Hirokazu Nakamura were forced to resign in December 1997, after four former company executives were jailed for making corporate payoffs to sōkaiya
racketeer
Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit.
Originally and ...
s."Mitsubishi Motors chief intent on turnaround" Sayuri Daimon, ''
The Japan Times
''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
History
''The Japan Times'' was launched b ...
'', December 4, 1997"Mitsubishi chiefs quit over 'gangster pay-off' scandal" ''
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ...
'' October 31, 1997 Mitsubishi Motors admitted to paying ¥23.5 million to the wife of a racketeer, ostensibly for the rental of a beach house, in a controversy which also engulfed
Toshiba
, commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, ...
Ward's AutoWorld
Ward's is an American organization that has covered the automotive industry for over 80 years.
The organization is responsible for several publications including, '' Ward's AutoWorld'', and '' Ward's Dealer Business''. Ward's also publish the ...
'', December 1997"3 Mitsubishi Executives Arrested in Payoffs" ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'', October 24, 1997
He was among those former executives named in 2005 in a ¥1.3 billion lawsuit filed by Mitsubishi Motors in connection with the Mitsubishi Motors recall cover up scandal,"Mitsubishi seeks £6.4m damages" Christine Buckley, ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...
'', March 31, 2005 but died of
bile duct
A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile, and is present in most vertebrates.
Bile is required for the digestion of food and is secreted by the liver into passages that carry bile toward the hepatic duct. It ...
cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...
in 2006 before the case was resolved."Ex-MMC Pres. Kimura, recall-related damages suit defendant, dies" ''Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News'', February 14, 2006