Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Co admitted Thursday that it committed 40 years of fraud in testing transformers for power plants at its factory in Akuho city, Hyogo Prefecture, CCTV news reported.

Public documents show that Mitsubishi Electric was founded in 1921 and is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group. Its products include display products for individual consumers, mobile phones, kitchen electrical, vehicle electrical, household electrical, air conditioning electrical. It is understood that in the Japanese market, Mitsubishi motor is the first major manufacturer of train air conditioning products, not only ordinary train "standard", even in recent years to develop the Shinkansen train also choose its supporting suppliers.

On February 1, 2021, Mitsubishi Electric celebrated its 100th anniversary, officially becoming a 100-year enterprise. However, the century-old company has been exposed to a number of fraud and fraud scandals since last year.

Mitsubishi Electric's president resigned last year after a data fraud scandal broke

Previously, as reported by CCTV news on July 3, 2021, Takeshi Sugiyama, president of Mitsubishi Electric announced his resignation on July 2 because the company was exposed by the media to have falsified inspection data. Mitsubishi Electric has been exposed for at least 30 years as fabricating test data at its Nagasaki plant for air conditioners on its trains. Later, the media revealed that Mitsubishi Electric also falsified air compressor inspection data.

On July 8, 2021, ACCORDING to CCTV news, citing Japan's Kyodo News on July 7, local time, mitsubishi Electric's train air conditioners involved in falsified inspection data were exported to the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and other about 15 countries. The devices totaled about 15,800 units, the report said. Mitsubishi did not disclose all the countries involved, citing contractual requirements. Several media outlets have previously revealed that a Factory in Nagasaki operated by Mitsubishi Electric did not fully test products as required by customers and falsified test data for a long time, dating back to around 1985. The products involved, including train air conditioners and air compressors, totaled about 84, 000 units, 20 percent of which were exported overseas. Some subways in New York, London and Germany are using related equipment. Mitsubishi's overseas sales are mainly in North America, Europe and Asia, with businesses in rail-related areas, factory automation equipment and auto parts, the report said.

In addition, in May 2021, Mitsubishi Electric will be 2.15 million pieces of electrical equipment parts do not meet the safety certification standards, provided to a number of customers in Japan and abroad; In 2020, Mitsubishi Electric was exposed to export substandard car radio receivers to the European Union; In December 2020, Mitsubishi Electric issued a statement, saying that the company had exported a large number of non-compliant car audio parts, about 335,000 pieces, to European automakers between June 2017 and October 2020 by forging relevant documents. The defective products were used in cars sold in Europe by a number of Japanese carmakers.

A number of Japanese companies have been exposed to fraud scandals in recent years

Not only Mitsubishi electric, a number of Japanese enterprises in recent years also have a fraud problem. On June 25, 2021, it was reported that the German quality inspection department suspected that Mitsubishi motors had violated regulations in the emission of harmful substances in its exhaust gas since 2012 by using external devices to reduce the emission of harmful substances. Although Mitsubishi motors denied any irregularities in the quality inspection process, But admitted that its products did make mistakes in emissions, and paid a fine of 25 million euros (about 190 million yuan) to German quality inspection authorities. In February 2021, Japanese auto parts supplier Dawning Brake Industry Apologized to the public for falsifying or fabricating data on more than 110,000 brakes and parts manufactured at its four factories in Japan. Of these, about 5,000 failed to meet the standards agreed with the car manufacturer. According to the time dawning announced, fraud existed for 20 years, was affected to the enterprise including Toyota, Nissan, 10 Japanese car enterprises.

According to The China Times, the continuous decline in product quality has led to the collapse of the "golden signboard" of Japanese enterprises. In 1996, there were 99 Japanese companies on the Fortune 500 list, as many as in the United States, according to data. By 2020, the number of Japanese firms had fallen by nearly half, to 53. In this regard, an industry source said: "Earlier, Japan's manufacturing industry in the global position can be said to be at the peak of the day. But with the rapid development of the information age and the increasing influence of the media, problems that had been hidden have come to light, leading some consumers to question the quality of Japanese companies."