Scandal Upends Toshiba’s Reputation - 22-07-2015

  • TOKYO — Few companies in Japan have conveyed respectability like Toshiba, the sprawling industrial conglomerate that, to the surprise of many here, has found itself at the center of one of the country’s largest accounting scandals.

    Toshiba’s chief executives have for decades sat at the apex of Japan’s establishment — civic leaders as much as business managers, in many people’s eyes. One boss from the 1990s went on to run the Tokyo Stock Exchange, then the national postal system. The company features on a prominent index of businesses thought to combine profitability with clean, modern corporate governance.

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