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

Together with its over 500 group companies, Mitsubishi employs a multinational workforce of approximately 54, 000 people.

In 2007, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking, a division of Japan's largest banking group, started to allow employees to go home up to three hours early to care for children or elderly relatives.

A third less common standard is used mostly by Chrysler group and for a time Mitsubishi in their OEM devices.

It is part of the Mitsubishi keiretsu, formerly the biggest industrial group in Japan, and was formed in 1970 from the automotive division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and other Mitsubishi group companies acquire equity stakes of 43 %, 42 % and 15 % respectively in MFTBC.

* 2004: Daimler AG, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and Mitsubishi group companies hold shares of 65 %, 20 % and 15 % respectively as MMC sold part of its MFTBC shares to Daimler AG, then DaimlerChrysler.

Daimler AG, then DaimlerChrylser and Mitsubishi group companies hold shares of 85 % and 15 % respectively

Daimler AG ( 89. 29 %), Mitsubishi group companies ( 10. 71 %)

Likewise, the Rikken Minseito was connected to the Mitsubishi group, as was the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The D40 Navara has undergone Euro NCAP crash testing along with the Mitsubishi Triton and Isuzu D-Max, and received one star with a strikeout ; however, after retesting with upgraded computer software it went from the lowest in the group to the highest ( overall ) with 3 stars.

Other firms including chip manufacturers ATI, LG Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric, NVIDIA, and Texas Instruments and software-and / or IP vendors DMP, Esmertec, ETRI, Falanx Microsystems, Futuremark, HI Corporation, Ikivo, HUONE ( formerly MTIS ), Superscape, and Wow4M have also participated in the working group.

During the 1980s it became the world's largest commercial aircraft lessor and expanded its shareholding to include Air Canada, General Electric, Long Term Credit Bank of Japan and companies in the Mitsubishi group.

Mitsubishi were also given responsibility for developing small and medium car platforms for the entire group during this time, although since the German and Japanese companies ' divorce Chrysler, who were dependent on Mitsubishi, now claim greater autonomy in platform development.

Japanese companies were involved in all projects using technicians from the original Mitsubishi south sea pre-war projects.

Rennes is the 2nd concentration of ITC firms in France after Paris ( with well-known companies like Atos, SFR, Orange France Telecom, Technicolor R & D, Canon, Mitsubishi, Alcatel-Lucent, Texas Instruments, NXP, Thales or Logica ), and the 3rd innovation potential in agrofood French industry.

The top 25 companies are also members of the Mitsubishi Kin ' yōkai, or " Friday Club ", and meet monthly.

* Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which includes these industrial companies.

For example, as Japan modernized its energy and materials industries, the Mitsubishi companies created Mitsubishi Petrochemical, Mitsubishi Atomic Power Industries, Mitsubishi Liquefied Petroleum Gas, and Mitsubishi Petroleum Development.

Mitsubishi companies also were active in consumer goods and services.

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

These companies are members of the Mitsubishi Kinyokai ( or Friday Club ), and meet monthly.

* Portal website for Mitsubishi companies

Popular digital multitrack recorders produced by Sony and Mitsubishi in the early 1980s helped to bring about digital recording's acceptance by the major record companies.

The bid attracted interest from several companies including Toshiba, General Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and when the Financial Times reported on January 23, 2006 that Toshiba had won the bid, it valued the company's offer at $ 5bn (£ 2. 8bn ).

Karzai invited Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi and others to invest in Afghan mining projects.

Several major international companies have operations in the city: Toyota, NSK, KYB and Mitsubishi.

In January 2007 Siemens was fined € 396 million by the European Commission for price fixing in EU electricity markets through a cartel involving 11 companies, among which ABB, Alstom, Fuji, Hitachi Japan, AE Power Systems, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Schneider, Areva, Toshiba and VA Tech According to the Commission, " between 1988 and 2004, the companies rigged bids for procurement contracts, fixed prices, allocated projects to each other, shared markets and exchanged commercially important and confidential information.

Further cost savings were explored in the form of an extensive platform-sharing arrangement with Mitsubishi, which spawned the Caliber subcompact as a replacement for the Neon and the Avenger sedan.

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.

* 1964: Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy Industries, Ltd., Shin Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd. merged to form Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Mitsubishi Fuso Motors and Shin Mitsubishi Motors Sales Co. merge to form Mitsubishi Motors Sales Co.

Finally Welfide Corp. and Mitsubishi-Tokyo Pharmaceutical Inc. ( 三菱東京製薬株式会社 ) were merged to form Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation ( 三菱ウェルファーマ株式会社 ) on October 1, 2001.

By contrast in New Zealand, the Avenger, Hunter and Mitsubishi Galant ( offered from 1972 – 1977 in coupe form only ) co-existed together in Todd Motors ' overall lineup, though the Avenger-sized ( but much more cramped inside ) Mitsubishi Lancer eventually went into local assembly in 1975.

Although the earlier Colt had been imported in limited numbers, this generation, in 1. 6L coupe form only, was the first model to establish the Mitsubishi brand in New Zealand from 1971 when newly-appointed distributor Todd Motors, which also imported and assembled Chrysler and Hillman, started selling a small number of Japanese-assembled cars to supplement its mainstream Hillman Avenger and Hunter models.

The CM series, released in November 1978, was to be the final model as production ended in 1981 following the takeover of Chrysler Australia by Mitsubishi Motors to form Mitsubishi Motors Australia in 1980.

In the early years of developing its MIVEC technology, Mitsubishi also introduced a variant dubbed MIVEC-MD ( Modulated Displacement ), a form of variable displacement.

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Mitsubishi Zero had the exact opposite problem in which the controls became ineffective.

The Mitsubishi Laser TV appears to use such a screen which requires special care according to their product manual.

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 ).

The Mitsubishi Group ( 三菱グループ, Mitsubishi Gurūpu ) ( also known as the Mitsubishi Group of Companies or Mitsubishi Companies ) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate comprising a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy.

The name Mitsubishi ( 三菱 consists of two parts: " mitsu " meaning " three " and " hishi " ( which becomes " bishi " under rendaku ) meaning " water caltrop " ( also called " water chestnut "), and hence " rhombus ", which is reflected in the company's famous logo.

In May 2011, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries achieved a turbine inlet temperature of 1, 600 ° C on a 320 megawatt gas turbine, 460 MW in gas turbine combined-cycle power generation applications in which gross thermal efficiency exceeds 60 %.

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

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.

For more than two decades since its establishment, this stake was jointly owned by Mitsubishi Motors and parent Mitsubishi Corp. which each held a 7. 93 % stake in Proton until they sold it in March 2004.

Mitsubishi disposed of its entire 15. 86 % stake in Proton, most of which were picked up by Khazanah Nasional, which previously owned 42. 7 % of Proton shares.

Only the Mitsubishi Eclipse-based Eagle Talon remained for 1998, after which it, along with the Eagle brand itself, was discontinued because of the DaimlerChrysler merger at that time.