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Mitsubishi Heavy to invest additional ¥200 billion in Japanese jet project
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to make a fresh investment of ¥200 billion in the Mitsubishi Regional Jet project, sources said. Of the funds, the heavy machinery maker intends to use about ¥120 billion in fiscal 2018 ending March to ensure it can deliver the first ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to enter European luxury ferry market following restructuring
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will enter the luxury ferry market in Europe as part of a restructuring of its ship-building business. Its subsidiary, Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., will expand production facilities at two shipyards, in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and Nagasaki, to prepare for orders from Europe, President ...
Mitsubishi Heavy sees no need to further delay delivery of first regional jet
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. sees no need to further postpone the first delivery of its small passenger jet, the firm's president and chief executive officer, Shunichi Miyanaga, said Tuesday. The delivery of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, the first Japan-developed small passenger jet, has already been ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. President Shunichi Miyanaga said Friday its airplane subsidiary was facing its first cancellation for the delay-plagued Mitsubishi Regional Jet. "We expect to lose a contract" from Eastern Air Lines because the U.S. carrier has been sold, he said in an interview. The ...
Mitsubishi and Kawasaki look for new ways to ensure survival of struggling shipbuilding businesses
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. are struggling to find a way out of the predicament faced by their shipbuilding operations. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will transfer shipbuilding operations, which is their founding business dating back 130 years, to a new subsidiary — ...
South Korean court again orders Mitsubishi Heavy to compensate former forced laborers
A South Korean court has for the second time in a week ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to compensate Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor. Friday's ruling compels the major maker of heavy machinery to pay four victims a total of 470 million won ...
South Korean court orders Mitsubishi Heavy to pay compensation over wartime forced labor
A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay compensation over forced labor by two women during World War II. In the latest ruling concerning such practices during the Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945, the Gwangju ...
Fifth delay announced for Japan's MRJ jet, raising concerns about new sales
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. puts off handing over its passenger jet and announces a 30 percent jump in development costs.
New, fuel-efficient MSDF destroyer Asahi launched in Nagasaki
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's newest destroyer was christened the Asahi and launched Wednesday at a shipyard in Nagasaki. The new destroyer, which is to go into service in March 2018, is the first MSDF ship that uses a combined gas turbine engine and electric propulsion ...
New MRJ hiccups revive manufacturing industry's jitters
The Mitsubishi Regional Jet is back in the spotlight after flights to the United States were canceled last month because of problems with the air-conditioning system. The MRJ has been delayed four times so far. With hopes for a manufacturing revival resting on Japan's first ...
MRJ back in hangar after test flights to U.S. thwarted by air conditioner
After two aborted test flights in as many days tied to a problematic air-conditioning system, Japan's first locally built passenger jet was back for checks and fixes amid delays to a program aimed at challenging the dominance of Brazil's Embraer SA and Canada's Bombardier ...
Mitsubishi Regional Jet leaves for test flights in U.S. but soon returns due to defect
A new Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. passenger jet that left for test flights in the United States was forced to return due to problems with the air-conditioning system.
