On the 10th, Kobe Steel reported the results of the internal survey that the corporate earnings emphasis and the attitude of priority on delivery were illegally connected to the problem that had altered the inspection data of products such as aluminum and copper I announced it.

However, I did not clarify the detailed method of tampering, whether the executives knew the corruption, including the past, and how the fraud expanded to many factories in Japan and abroad.

In a series of problems, an external investigation committee with a lawyer as a member separate from the in-house investigation is supposed to summarize the results of the survey within the year, and the extent to which the actual state of fraud is clarified becomes the future focus I will.

President Hiroya Kawasaki revealed the idea to dispose of stakeholders based on external survey results at a press conference on October, but the impact on over 500 domestic and overseas business partners As it spreads, responsibility of the management team seems to be strictly questioned.