{"id":50748,"date":"2017-11-06T06:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=50748"},"modified":"2017-11-06T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:19:06","slug":"kobe-steel-executives-to-decide-whether-to-resign-after-external-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/kobe-steel-executives-to-decide-whether-to-resign-after-external-probe.html","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Steel executives to decide whether to resign after external probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #000000\">Kobe Steel executives to decide whether to resign after external probe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kobe Steel executives to decide whether to resign after external probe: The company is also planning to release an internal report on the falsification of product specifications around Friday, said one of the sources, who has been briefed on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The other source is a senior executive at Kobe Steel. Both requested anonymity because decisions on the future of the executives and a firm date for the release of the report have been not been finalised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Kobe Steel\u2019s admission last month that workers had tampered with product specifications for at least a decade has sent global carmakers, airplane manufacturers and other companies racing to check whether the safety or performance of their products have been compromised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The company was ordered by Japan\u2019s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) last month to provide a detailed explanation of the data cheating and steps to prevent future abuses by around November 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">It later appointed a team of outside investigators, who are due to report to management by the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cWe received an instruction from METI on Oct. 12 to take steps to find the cause of the problem and craft preventive measures within a month and we are working toward that. We can\u2019t comment on whether we will announce this on the 10th and we can\u2019t comment on the issue of management responsibility,\u201d a spokesman told Reuters by phone, when contacted on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-kobe-steel-scandal-hometown\/scandal-hit-kobe-steel-has-a-look-the-other-way-culture-they-say-in-hometown-idUSKBN1D5011<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/kobe-steel-executives-to-decide-whether-to-resign-after-external-probe.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobe Steel executives to decide whether to resign after external probe Kobe Steel executives to decide whether to resign after external probe: The company is also planning to release an internal report on the falsification of product specifications around Friday, said one of the sources, who has been briefed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30053,93744,30039,30037],"class_list":["post-50748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-updates-usa-news","tag-kobe-steel-executives-to-decide-whether-to-resign-after-external-probe","tag-latest-business-updates-usa-news","tag-usa-business-and-regional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}