The company also owns major stakes in aerospace group EADS and Japanese truck maker Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation.

* Mitsubishi Corporation, founded in 1950, Japan's largest general trading company

** Mitsubishi Atomic Industry, a nuclear power company.

** Mitsubishi Chemical, the largest Japan-based chemicals company

In 1970, Mitsubishi companies established the Mitsubishi Foundation to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the founding of the first Mitsubishi company.

As of 2007, Mitsubishi Corporation, a member of the Mitsubishi Group, is Japan's largest general trading company ( sogo shosha ) with over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80 countries worldwide.

* BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance, a coal mining company based in Queensland, Australia

The entire Rockefeller Center complex was purchased by Mitsubishi Estate, a real estate company of the Mitsubishi Group, in 1989, which fully bought out Rockefeller Group.

In 1903 he married Masako Iwasaki, who came from the family that owned the Mitsubishi company.

In 1934, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding was merged with the Mitsubishi Aircraft Co., a company established in 1920 to manufacture aircraft engines and other parts.

The unified company was known as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ( MHI ), and was the largest private company in Japan.

Hirokazu Nakamura became president of Mitsubishi in 1989 and steered the company in some promising directions, with the advent of the Japanese asset price bubble " market correction " that led to the Lost Decade as a result of the Plaza Accord agreement signed in 1985.

The Dutch government sold out to its partners in 1999 and Volvo, by now owned by Geely, sold its stake to Mitsubishi in early 2001 to leave the Japanese company as the only remaining shareholder.

Today, it most commonly refers to the Mitsubishi Colt subcompact in the company's line-up, but is also the name of MMC's import / distribution company in the United Kingdom, the Colt Car Company, established in 1974.

Mitsubishi held up to a 10 percent stake in the company, until disposing of the last of its remaining shares in March 2003.

In November 1997, Mitsubishi hired Katsuhiko Kawasoe to replace Takemune Kimura as company president.

After a starvation of new investment caused by lack of cashflow, the company introduced the award-winning Mitsubishi i kei car in 2006, its first new model in 29 months, while a revised Outlander has been introduced worldwide to compete in the popular XUV market niche.

Ralliart ( later Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports ), was Mitsubishi's racing subsidiary, although the company ceased competing formally in 2010.

Mitsubishi was the first to produce a cultured south sea pearl – although it was not until 1928 that the first small commercial crop of pearls was successfully produced.

Mitsubishi commenced pearl culture with the south sea pearl oyster in 1916, as soon as the technology patent was commercialized.

The first Cassegrain antenna was invented and built in Japan in 1963 by NTT, KDDI and Mitsubishi Electric.

In 1975, the Pony, the first Korean car, was released, with styling by Giorgio Giugiaro of ItalDesign and powertrain technology provided by Japan's Mitsubishi Motors.

In 2001, Hyundai debuted a new evolution of the Accent WRC, which was intended to improve reliability, but the performance of the car was still not good enough to challenge the four big teams ( Ford, Mitsubishi, Peugeot and Subaru ).

Kankkunen's fifth place in New Zealand was the team's best result, but they managed to edge out Škoda and Mitsubishi by one point in the battle for fourth place in the manufacturers ' world championship.

* Grace ( 1st generation was a rebadged Mitsubishi Delica )

* Porter ( 1st generation was a rebadged Mitsubishi Delica )

In 1873, its name was changed to Mitsubishi Shokai.

* Mitsubishi Bank ( now a part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group ) was founded in 1919.

The Mitsubishi A6M (" Zero ") was a primary Japanese naval fighter in World War II.

The traditional Mitsubishi emphasis on technological development was in new ventures in such fields as space development, aviation, ocean development, data communications, computers, and semiconductors.

On April 25, 2002 in La Ceiba, Honduras, Lopes was killed when she lost control while driving a Mitsubishi Montero Sport.

Lopes's mother, Wanda, later sued Mitsubishi Motors, as the Montero was prone to rollovers according to a 2001 Consumer Reports review.

The Bank of Taiwan was established in 1899 to encourage Japanese private sectors, including Mitsubishi and the Mitsui Group, to invest in Taiwan.

The car was immediately competitive against such opposition as the Subaru Impreza WRC, the Ford Focus WRC and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

( In fact, one of the first ProDigi-format recorders, the Mitsubishi X-86C, was playback-compatible with tapes recorded on an X-80.

The vast majority of Nagasaki's industrial output was from the Mitsubishi factories and steel plant, which was 58 and 78 percent destroyed, respectively.

It recovered once Mitsubishi UFJ's 21 % stake in Morgan Stanley was completed on October 14, 2008.

* 2010: Mitsubishi developed and started mass production of its 4N13 1. 8 L DOHC I4, the world's first passenger car diesel engine that features a variable valve timing system.

At the same time, they increased the number of models imported from Mitsubishi: first came a smaller Colt ( based on Mitsubishi's Mitsubishi Lancer line ), then a revival of the Challenger ( though with nothing more than a four-cylinder under the hood, rather than the booming V8s of yore ).

In 1934 Peugeot introduced the 402 BL Éclipse Décapotable, the first convertible with a retractable hardtop — an idea followed later by the Ford Skyliner in the 1950s and revived in the modern era by the Mitsubishi 3000GT Spyder in 1995.

The Japanese also produced many vans based on the American flat nose model, but also mini-vans which for the American market have generally evolved to the long-wheelbase front wheel drive form factor first pioneered by the Nissan Prairie and Mitsubishi Chariot.

Foss shot down a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero on his first combat mission on October 13, but his own F4F Wildcat was shot up as well, and with a dead engine and three more Zeros on his tail, he landed at full speed, with no flaps and minimal control on the American-held runway at Guadalcanal, barely missing a grove of palm trees.

Based on technology and parts from Mitsubishi Motors, production of the first model, the Proton Saga began in September 1985 at its first manufacturing plant in Shah Alam, Selangor.

Proton Perdana, based on the Mitsubishi Galant / Eterna, was first produced in 1995, intended for higher end market.

Mitsubishi's automotive origins date back as far as 1917, when the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. introduced the Model A, Japan's first series-production automobile.

It was chosen by Iwasaki Yatarō, the founder of Mitsubishi, as it was suggestive of the emblem of the Tosa Clan who first employed him, and because his own family crest was three rhombuses stacked atop each other.

Thanks to this deal, Chrysler began selling the Galant in the United States as the Dodge Colt ( which was the first rebadged Mitsubishi product sold by Chrysler ,) pushing MMC's annual production beyond 250, 000 vehicles.

In 1977, the Galant was sold as the Chrysler Sigma in Australia. A 1973 Mitsubishi Galant, the basis for the company's first captive import deal with Chrysler.

In 1982, the Mitsubishi brand was introduced to the American market for the first time.

The operation, branded NedCar, began producing the first generation Mitsubishi Carisma alongside the Volvo S40 / V40 in 1996.

For the first decade of its existence, before Far Eastern auto manufacturers had established their reputations, its cars carried the " Colt " badge in Britain instead of " Mitsubishi ".