Sorry about that

Unbelievable!

Sorry, not sorry.

Its getting to the point where the low bow is getting meaningless.

The only time you see it is when someone is caught, not when someone is sorry. Yet again someone did something maliciously.

Scratch that. I am wrong. It is not meaningless.The low bow is taking on a new meaning: we willingly did something wrong that was selfish and we tried to hurt and steal from people and we were caught, and we are sorry we were caught.

Send them to jail? This is fraud, they are in bed with the government and like Tepco no one will goto jail or even be fined. Japan needs some serious governance shack-ups

I predicted this when VW admitted falsifying data. If one is doing it, they are all doing it.

Doesn't fraud have a legal punishment in a Japan or is the low bow it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they are always sorry after they get caught. However, the truth is, they are just a bunch of unscrupulous corporate criminals who will never be held accountable for their lies and misdeeds.

Low bow from Japan Inc. = It's deeply regrettable that we got caught

Its getting to the point where the low bow is getting meaningless.

Yeah, I'd say. So damn sick of seeing bald patches too.

clamenza is right, I'd bet they are all cooking the data

Never had a car that got its advertised fuel economy anyway, but I was wondering instead if people apologising here like this ever knock over the microphones and be heard to mutter something under their breath like chikushou.

Yeah, I'd say. So damn sick of seeing bald patches too. I always saw these parades as an insult to Japanese culture, as the deep bow is meant to hold some relevance in Japan, scumbags like these do it without any sincerity and just to fool the public into thinking all is OK were sorry blah blah blah. only big fines that cost more than the monetary gains by there deceit will pull these goons into line

"This is JAPAN! You don't understand us!" - probably the answer to a foreigner employer if he tries to point out this tampering in his company.

From CBC this morning detailing the story: """Mitsubishi Motors struggled for years to win back consumer trust after an auto defects scandal in the early 2000s over cover-ups of problems such as failing brakes, faulty clutches and fuel tanks prone to falling off dating back to the 1970s."""

Executives: Phew, good to get that ritual over with. Now we can get back to doing what we were.

As this only affected domestic kei cars, this may well be the last we hear of this fraud.

Ginza tonight again, boys?

Ooops were sorry we got caught..... I mean were sorry....

The row of insincerity!

Its getting to the point where the low bow is getting meaningless.

RD, I think we are LONG past the point where these scenes had any meaning by at least 30years.

I always saw these parades as an insult to Japanese culture, as the deep bow is meant to hold some relevance in Japan

Agreed, sadly those days are long gone, if they really even existed in the first place as far as govt & business is concerned that's for sure!

Being Japan, I bet nobody (outside the corporation itself) will think checking also the other cars's report, fraud once, fraud all.

Showing remorse properly would be: 1, resignations, and 2, criminal prosecution. A deep bow just doesn't cut it anymore

"quick, let's point at Volkswagen!".

Whether the apology is sincere or not is beside the point. It is about actually making the apology and standing in front of the press and being shamed. I am not saying it is a perfect system and most Japanese know that the apology is quite often insincere, but Japanese people like to see an apology.

Besides if you take away the bow is it really any different to abroad? The Volkswagen boss had a press conference in Detroit and apologized to America for his company's deceit. Practically the same as what Mitsubishi did, but you know he did not bow.

Instead of Sorry About That, it should read-Sorry We Got Caught About That.

I drive a Honda, never got even remotely close to the advertised mileage. I'll be a good amount that all Japanese car companies are doing this. Now that Mitsubishi is caught, it won't won't be a matter of time before some regulators who were in on it will start to throw the other companies under the bus

Good old Japan... where NOTHING will happen to these guys. Yes, the company will take a hit, and in order to compensate a whole lot of everyday Joe Tanakas will be laid off, but all that will happen to these guys is a couple will retire, WITH a golden parachute that is the equivalent of ten years' salary for said everyday Tanaka, and work in an amakudari job with six figures. The rest of the board? Some will take a 10% pay cut for three months.

That's all. Meanwhile, the number of Japanese companies who AREN'T corrupt is a whole lot easier to count... somewhere about ZERO, or at most the digits on one hand. Well done, Mitsubishi! Toshiba, Olympus, Takada, and others are waiting for you once you step off the stage.

"quick, let's point at Volkswagen!". look im not sayig Mitsubishi or any other Japanese company has an excuse in fooling the public, but VW fraud goes back almost ten years and involves over 11 million cars, and is expected to cost them around $10billion+ fines/litigation. just wish J automakers handed out punishment like that

Mistakes are unavoidable in the life of an active and vital person. In other words he who make no mistake never makes anything. But sorry you're still fired.

Come on folks, this is coming from a company that named two of it's automobiles LaPuta and Pajero, does anyone actually think they care what the public thinks?

good on them for coming forward with it unlike another German car maker than got forced into admition. mitsubishi owned up to it. Give them credit at least for that.

good on them for coming forward with it unlike another German car maker than got forced into admition. mitsubishi owned up to it. Give them credit at least for that.

They didn't "come forward". Their partners at Nissan found the falsified data and reported it to the government. No doubt Mitsubishi would have continued to cover up the scandal if they had a choice.

Come on folks, this is coming from a company that named two of it's automobiles LaPuta and Pajero, does anyone actually think they care what the public thinks?

Hahahaa! Good one.

Like beowulf says, the act of apologizing seems to be the only thing that matters in Japan, not whether it's a sincere one. This is why the average Japanese spurts out about a million miniscule suimasen or gomen nasai a day for seemingly trivial offenses. the whole culture is soaked in what they themselves believe is politeness.

just wish J automakers handed out punishment like that

It isnt about the money, it's about how businesses are run. Get caught, it's the shame of it, getting caught, that is the problem, not they "why", it's getting the whistle blown that is the main thing.

If Mitsubishi never got caught, or even if they did, and it did not go public, everything would have been fine within the company. They would have quietly dealt with the problem, and somewhere down the road a press release would have come out stating that they had made "miscalculations" , a couple of execs, due to retire anywhere, would have fallen on their swords, taken one for the company, and walked away with a fat bank account.

I'll bet NO ONE at Mitsubishi HQ went home over the past few days, even the tea-ladies worked overtime, everyone gossiping and wondering who would take the fall. Bet the lights are still burning bright at corporate HQ tonight too, trying to figure out how to make things right.

The sound of teeth-sucking around their building must have been pretty loud!

All they're sorry about is that they were caught.

I'm starting to equate the 最敬礼 with crocodile tears. We know that you're only sorry you got caught.

Sorry didn't do it, you did it knowingly and got caught!!!

Mitsubishi Motors Corp President Tetsuro Aikawa, center, bows deeply

Just going through the motions. Its the Japanese way-

That's nothing! take a look at the UK we've just found out that a large number of car makers have,,, well lets say not been 100% honest with there emissions, take a look at this link and it will show how dishonest car makers have been to, not only the UK market but Europe and further afield..http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/21/all-top-selling-cars-break-emissions-limits-in-real-world-tests