Born on this day, Takemune Kimura, Japanese businessman and former president of Mitsubishi Motors


Tuesday 10th February 1931

Born on this day, Takemune Kimura, Japanese businessman and former president of Mitsubishi Motors. He and chairman Hirokazu Nakamura were forced to resign in December 1997, after four former company executives were jailed for making corporate payoffs to sōkaiya racketeers. Mitsubishi Motors admitted to paying ¥23.5 million to the wife of a racketeer, ostensibly for the rental of a beach house, in a controversy which also engulfed Toshiba and Hitachi. He was among those former executives named in 2005 in a ¥1.3 billion lawsuit filed by Mitsubishi Motors in connection with the Mitsubishi Motors recall cover up scandal, but died of bile duct cancer in 2006 before the case was resolved.


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