Mitsubishi Materials Latest to Suffer Quality Scandal, Can Dowa Holdings Benefit?
Mitsubishi Materials Corp (5711 JP) announced on Thu 23 Nov that two subsidiaries had falsified data on products involving over 250 customers in...
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Kobe Steel: Visit Suggests Limited Fallout From Scandal, Upside to Guidance
We visited Kobe Steel Ltd (5406 JP) this morning to get an update on customer reactions to its data falsification scandal and whether the company...
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Musings: Governance and the Vulnerabilities of the Japanese Management Style
With Kobe Steel Ltd (5406 JP) contributing to a recent string of scandals across corporate Japan that has included Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201 JP),...
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Kobe Steel: Disclosures Regarding Causes of and Steps to Prevent Reoccurrence of Improper Conduct
Kobe Steel announced an update on the progress of its safety verifications with its customers which can be found here. Progress was steady and over...
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Kobe Steel: Steel and Construction Machinery Businesses Likely to Drive Recurrent Profit to JPY75bn
We commented earlier that Kobe Steel's downward revision to recurrent profit guidance was too conservative and that the assumptions for the Steel...
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