— Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) today announced the members of its Business Ethics Committee set up on June 29. The panel of outside experts will join the committee on July 22.
| Chairman |
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Noboru Matsuda |
(Former senior public prosecutor and Governor of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan) |
| Committee members |
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Konoe Kawagishi |
(Former vice-chairman of Yomiuri Shimbun editorial committee; member of the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission) |
| Takahiro Fujimoto |
(Professor at Tokyo University; head of the university's Manufacturing Management Research Center) |
| Kazuko Miyamoto |
(Head of consumer research at the Nippon Association of Consumer Specialists; member of the Industrial Structure Council Consumer Policy Committee) |
| Kazuo Mura |
(Lawyer; former managing director of the Resolution and Collection Corporation) |
Mitsubishi Motors' Business Ethics Committee will act as an advisory body for the company's board of directors, offering recommendations and making proposals on business ethics. The committee will also advise the company's Corporate Social Responsibility Promotion Office on auditing quality and reforming corporate culture and business ethics. The committee's secretariat, headed by Junzo Ishino, has already been set up in preparation for the committee's first meeting on July 22.
To break from the past and turn itself into a trusted company, MMC is following a business policy which places top priority on compliance, customers, and safety. The guidance and advice provided by the Business Ethics Committee will help the company beef up its monitoring of quality and corporate governance issues.