On October 1, 2021, Mitsubishi Electric published the report of an investigation committee of outside lawyers on years of improper inspections at its plants. At a briefing, the committee chair repeated what he had heard at the sites: Kyoten no nakamauchi de wa yoi ga, soto ni wa mono ga iinikui. Among colleagues at the site it is fine, but it is hard to speak to those outside. Some also found it hard to speak to their bosses.
He said that employees at the Kani plant and the Nagasaki Works got along well. In his view, this closeness fed a mindset of kyoten atte kaisha nashi: the site exists, the company does not.