(1) Policy

• Mitsubishi Motors perceives the Year 2000 problem as a major management issue, and is taking all necessary action to ensure continuity in its operations, and in those of its associate and client companies in Japan and overseas.
• To avoid inconveniencing customers, the company has implemented a program to identify and remediate potential problems related to Year 2000 in its products and information systems, and at its production and administrative facilities.
• The company will complete, by the end of June, a contingency plan that ensures core business and service divisions will be able to continue functioning in the event of any unforeseen Year 2K problems arising.

(2) Approach

• The company started research into potential Year 2K problems in July 1996.
• In July 1998, the company set up the Information Systems Committee(ISC)-comprising representatives of all systems departments and production engineering departments, and chaired by an executive vice president (CIO)-to direct the planning, initiation and coordination of remediate action.
• The ISC stays in close touch with all corporate units likely to be affected by Year 2K, and reports regularly to senior management on the current state of progress.
• By the end of October 1998, the company had ascertained that none of its products, either current or older models, will be affected by Year 2K.

(3) Current status at MMC (as at end of March 1999)

(4) Current status at affiliate and client companies