The recent spate of industrial scandals shaking Japan's leading firms underlines the need for top management to develop a whole new attitude toward consumers and manufacturing if companies want to recover public trust and restore the country's image for high-quality production.Revelations of data falsification and other problems have emerged just as the "Made in Japan" label was gaining traction again following sustained competition from low cost rivals such as China, thanks to the perception that Japanese firms produce higher-quality products."Japanese companies have technical competitiven…READ FULL ARTICLE
