The wings are crafted in Japan by the Mitsubishi group using Toray-made carbon fiber.
But the main problem for the Mitsubishi group is, perversely, the strength of its financial companies.
The 270bn yen confirmed from within the Mitsubishi group of companies will come from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Corp, and Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group.
The Mitsubishi group, for instance, consists of several dozen major corporations that, though they often behave like divisions within a single American conglomerate, are all separately listed.
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Although it holds a 34% stake, other companies in the Mitsubishi group, such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corp, the trading company, collectively hold an equivalent stake.
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Mitsubishi Motors has been hit hard by revelations that the group and its truck division Mitsubishi Fuso had been hiding defects to prevent product recalls.
The stocks of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (NYSE:MTU) are up 65% and those of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (NYSE:SMFG) up 75%.
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With its presence in Asia and its network of factories and dealers in America, Mitsubishi could help the French group reduce its reliance on the European market.
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It is to buy the megabanks, particularly Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ Financial Group (NYSE: MTU).
According to the report, the company is transferring 30-40 development engineers from other group companies to its Mitsubishi Aircraft Industries subsidiary in an emergency effort to resolve the problems and avoid further delays.
Mitsubishi Real Estate, part of the same keiretsu or business group, is the buyer.
The group's enduring notion of the urbane "Mitsubishi gentleman" has also made it an easy mark for sokaiya, gangsters who extort money by threatening to air dirty laundry.
But, built to the old Group A regulations, it is showing its age, and Mitsubishi is preparing a new car.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group trades at a fraction it traded separately before the bubble burst!
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Financials also bounced after losses earlier in the week, with Nomura Holdings rising 4.7% and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group rising 2.7% in Tokyo, Commonwealth Bank of Australia gaining 0.8% and Chinatrust Financial Holding climbing 2.4% in Taipei.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, for example, can ill afford to be a slush fund for the rest of the group.
Among individual stocks, Japanese vehicle maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. jumped more than 16 percent after raising its group net profit forecast for the year ending March 2013, Kyodo News reported.
The group has already achieved success in previous campaigns, after persuading two major sponsors of angling events - Mitsubishi and John Smiths - to withdraw support for the sport.
Looking across the group by business entity, the biggest profit contributor by far was the bank, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), operating inside and outside Japan under its own brand, with profits of JPY 639.2 billion, up JPY 296.5 billion, or a whopping 87 percent YOY.
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So far, it is unclear whether they will fully back DaimlerChrysler: although they have in effect washed their hands of Mitsubishi, they might still block reforms such as aggressive job-cutting if they felt these might tarnish the group brand.
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