M'bishi Motors to cut 9,500 jobs

M'bishi Motors to cut 9,500 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sonobe (L), president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC), and Vice President Rolf Eckrodt, who was dispatched to work with the troubled Japanese carmaker by DaimlerChrysler AG, announce the company's major restructuring plan at a Tokyo hotel on Feb. 26. Under the plan, MMC, hit hard by cover-up scandals involving vehicle defects, will cut some 9,500 jobs, or 14% of its group workforce, by 2003 and close down its key Oe plant in Nagoya.

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