Mitsubishi Electric chairman resigns over inspection scandals

Sakuyama to assume advisory role, but also leaves high-level post at Keidanren

20211001 Masaki Sakuyama Mitsubishi Electric

Sakuyama also resigned from vice chairman of the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, the country’s largest business lobby. (File photo by Kosaku Mimura)

Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Electric Chairman Masaki Sakuyama resigned Friday following a number of scandals over quality control, the company announced the same day, as he takes responsibility for the actions of the company's president from 2014 to 2018.

Sakuyama will assume a new role as a senior advisor to the company.

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