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Mitsubishi Sucks

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. - Friedrich von Logau (1604-1655)

Employment Discrimination at Mitsubishi - Race, Gender, Age, Disability, ...

Mitsubishi Motors's handling of incident of widespread sexual abuse and harassment at its Normal, Illinois plant prompted National Organization for Women (NOW) to state that "Mitsubishi's response to complaints of sexual abuse and harassment has been abhorrent. [It] tried to hide its own bad management by scapegoating the women who have brought the charges, claiming that they may bring the company down and cost their co-workers their jobs. The manufacturer has resorted to attempts to intimidate the women and to pit employee against employee, effectively increasing hostility on the job." NOW crowned it as a Merchant of Shame

Racial discrimination at Mitsubishi companies seem to be a standard fare, judging by the lawsuits brought against it. I too sued Mitsubishi Electric Japan for its employment-related racial discrimination. Mitsubishi Electronics USA president who lured me to Japan for intentional harassment, was party to an age discrimination lawsuit in the USA.

It really amused me when I went to a Mitsubishi Electric website and it claimed Disability Rights as one of the company's main themes. I was in their Computer Works in Kamakura, Japan and I don't recall seeing any disabled person there. There was nothing disabled-accessible there - except for an elevator in a building frequented by Western executive, and it had nice signs too! In Japan, disabled people have hard time getting jobs at conservative companies like Mitsubishi.

World War II POW Slave Labor Issue

Maurice "Mo" Mazer survived the Bataan Death March. He was sent to Hanawa Camp to work for Mitsubishi Mining in its copper mines. Mazer says he was crippled for life when nonmilitary overseers ran a full cart of ore into him because he had complained about conditions in the mine. "They were standing there, laughing," Mazer remembers. His crime, he says, was not bowing low enough.

Even after 55 years and a lifetime farming in China, Li Yunde says the memories of toiling and starving as a forced laborer at Mitsubishi Takashima Coal Mine Co. in Kyushu during World War II still make him cry. He was one of estimated millions of Chinese forced to work in mines, armament factories and constructing railroads by the occupying Japanese forces.

In Korea, Japanese firms used about 5 million Koreans as slave laborers, Oh Heun Kwon of Los Angeles was a slave labor at a Mitsubishi shipbuilding plant in Japan in 1944 of whom about 250,000 were taken to Japan, said a lawyer for plaintiffs seeking compensation from firms like Nippon Steel U.S.A. Inc. and Mitsubishi Corp. 500,000 Filipinos served as slave laborers, according to him.

In a statement, the Mitsubishi Corporation says that forced labor is inconsistent with the company's values, and that the various lawsuits targeting Mitsubishi are misdirected. Instead, a spokesman says the Mitsubishi of World War II is not the same Mitsubishi of today. The conglomerate also rejected a Chinese slave labor lawsuit demand by saying it bore no responsibility since it was national policy to employ Chinese laborers.

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CREDITS: The poetry on top by author Takayasu Miyakawa in Chuko Shinsho pocket book. CSS is from Eric Meyer's site. Eclipse on left is a fractal image (public domain) from Professor David E. Joyce, Clark University's site. Gender harassment at Mitsubishi Motors pic is from Public Broadcasting Service(PBS). Picture of a former slave labor, Takashi Usami, former chairman of Mitsubishi Fuso, smiling in 2003, Katsuhiko Kawasoe, former president of MMC, and Fuso truck on right are all from AP.