The president of Toshiba Machine resigned in May 1987 and both the president and chairman of Toshiba Corporation resigned in early July. Toshiba cancelled plans to display its goods in Moscow for an International exhibition in July 1987. Toshiba Corporation also launched a massive advertising effort in major American newspapers and magazines, running full page ads apologizing to the American public. The main objective of the US administration as a result of the scandal is said to be to encourage Japan to tighten up its export screening process and it looks like that will be achieved. An amendment to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control law has been drawn up, approved by the Cabinet and submitted to the current session of the Diet.
Enactment is considered highly likely.
Extension of the statute of limitations from three years to five years. Government officials will be given authority to enter factories and offices in order to make inspections. Export or import transactions could be banned for three years instead of the present one year maximum. Due to pressures from American congressmen, the Foreign Ministry and Diet members from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the monopoly of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in approving these types of exports has been weakened. Provisions will also be made for liaison activities with the Self Defense Agency, the Justice Ministry and the Customs Bureau of the Ministry of Finance.