If Mitsubishi Motors needs help, group firms may look away

A decade ago, Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors survived a defect cover-up scandal through a bail-out by other Mitsubishi Group companies. Multiple senior officials at Mitsubishi companies said it would be "difficult" for them to help the car maker as they face their own financial squeeze, as well as calls to put shareholder returns above ties with the former Mitsubishi business empire, or "zaibatsu", which was split up into independent companies after the Second World War. A task force at Ba