Truck maker Hino execs to resign over data fraud

Just resign? Not necessary to be prosecuted?

Was the fraud done by the board members? Or was there engineering hanky panky too, like in the VW case?

resign, jail and take back the income they earn from it,

TIJ -- no actual punishment despite 20 years of fraud. Of course, they need only pay back a small fraction of the massive amounts of money they made from such fraud, and still probably get a massive golden parachute when resigning. And the company? Oh, well, they are of course going to do an internal investigation and "think deeply" about what they can do to avoid... ummm... making massive amounts of money through fraud without any real penalties. Hmm... But I'm sure they'll never do it again because they have promised.

The company should go bankrupt and executives go to jail.

How about paying compensation to children who developed asthma from car fumes?

Seems like every company in Japan should just stop wasting time and form official “black deals” departments.

Stop going behind everyone’s back and do illegal trading, deals, fraud, or whatever out in the open.

Since apparently NO company is clean of any of this.

It would save a lot of time and effort on “investigations” and people could just concentrate on going straight for the unethical route.

Never mind all the small talk and formalities to “hide” the crimes.

This is “Unfortunate” of course. I knew lots of guys (Gai’ji’s) that got hired there for working on the production line, visited one guy in his dorm (out by Tachikawa).

Had an interview but didn’t get hired due to Visa situation. Was a good place to work, back in the early 90’s.

And for all those market fundamentalists who want to cut red tape, this is what happens when companies own the regulatory structure, It's corruption, pure and simple. Probably a few comfortable amakudari places in Toyota group for transport ministry "overseers" will be made available..

Par for the course for japan inc.

Fraud, corruption, cooked books, bribes are the name of the game in japan.

And when it's 'discovered' there is a sudden resignation with a deep heartless bow for the cameras to capture ad then it's back to business as usual.

This is regrettable however we japanese believe its best not to make too much attention to these matters and to focus to better things

the article itself states that none of these execs were directly involved in wrongdoing. so why are we calling for their heads again?

if that's the case, what happened to those directly involved in wrongdoing?

nothing adds up for me here, clearly someone did something bad, but without knowing more of the story i don't see how punishing execs apparently not directly involved in wrongdoing helps anyone.

why not make them stay at work "to take responsibility" (as they always say)... 7 days a week till their last day on Planet Earth..... at minimum wage.... staying in a workers' dorm... might make future would-be miscreants think twice. yes, fantasy, i know, as all those in 'the game' want to keep it running as is. same the world over, in all manner of organizations, maintain the status quo (gravy train) at all costs.

This is Japan. Prosecution only necessary if you are a foreigner.

Just resign? Not necessary to be prosecuted?

sakurasukiOct. 8  08:07 am JST

Just resign? Not necessary to be prosecuted?

Resign, retire, get all the perks, a retirement party, a zillion yen bonus, a slap on the back. Bye-bye.

> obladiOct. 8  08:09 am JST

Was the fraud done by the board members? Or was there engineering hanky panky too, like in the VW case?

Oh, that'll takes years to unravel.