Incomplete statistics on fraud by Japanese companies:
[2024]
On June 3, Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism reported that Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Yamaha, and Suzuki five automobile and locomotive manufacturers had committed fraud when applying for model production certification. Among them, Honda has misconduct in vehicle performance testing, involving about 4.35 million vehicles; Toyota said the company tested about 1.7 million vehicles for the violations
On April 24, IHI, a well-known Japanese engine manufacturer, admitted that one of its subsidiaries had tampered with the fuel efficiency data of more than 4,000 engines since 2003. The two factories involved are located in Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, and Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, respectively, and the former may have falsified data since the 80s of the last century
[2023]
l Toyota's subsidiary, Daihatsu Motors, has falsified safety crash test data for most of its vehicles, with a total of 174 violations and 64 models, and will stop all car shipments and recall more than 1 million vehicles
l Panasonic subsidiaries have admitted to data fraud for decades, and the cumulative number of customer companies worldwide has reached about 400
l Hitachi Astemo has engaged in parts quality inspection at 11 of its domestic plants and four overseas plants in the U.S., Mexico, Thailand, and China. More than 200 million products were produced for 69 customers, including brakes and suspension systems for automobiles, railway dampers, and industrial dampers, some of which were counterfeited for about 40 years (from January 1983 to April 2023)
[2022]
l Kawasaki Heavy Industries admitted that its subsidiary, Kawashige Cooling & Heating Industry (KTE), had a number of fraudulent quality inspections of the building's central air conditioning freezers, which had been carried out for nearly 40 years since 1984, and had tampered with data a total of 1,950 times. In addition, the performance of 2,944 units did not meet the performance of the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS), and this behavior lasted for more than 20 years
l Mitsubishi Electric admits that the transformers it manufactures have been fraudulent in inspection data and have been fraudulent for 40 years
According to the Japan Steel Works (JSW), there has been data falsification of turbine-related products for 24 years
l Toray, a chemical giant, admits that some resin products have been fraudulently obtaining safety specification certification issued by a third-party organization since the mid-80s
l Hino Motors admitted that the company's engine data had been falsified, including exhaust emissions and fuel consumption, for many years, affecting as many as 115,000 vehicles.
[2021]
l Mitsubishi Electric's Nagasaki plant was revealed to have failed to inspect products in full accordance with user requirements and falsified inspection data. This practice can be traced back to the 80s of the last century and has lasted for more than 35 years. Approximately 84,000 train air conditioners and air compressors are involved, of which 20% are exported
l Mitsubishi Electric supplied 2.15 million pieces of electrical equipment components to various customers that did not meet safety certification standards
l Kobayashi Chemical has been exposed to fraud for 40 years, and 80% of the 500 drugs have a record of fraud
l Japan's Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. was exposed to the falsification of quality inspection data for 20 years
l The "Hitachi 800" train carriage produced by Hitachi in the United Kingdom has cracks due to quality inspection fraud, resulting in a large-scale suspension of high-speed rail in the region
l Hitachi Metals, a subsidiary of Hitachi Group, has been falsifying quality inspection data for at least 30 years, affecting 1,952 global companies, equivalent to 10% of the total number of customers of the Group
[2020]
l Mitsubishi Electric admitted that it had exported about 335,000 non-compliant car audio parts to European automakers and falsified relevant documents for up to three years. In the same year, it was also exposed that the export of substandard vehicle radio receivers to the European Union was not met; Some of the semiconductor products and electrical control parts produced had problems such as inspection omissions
l Japanese auto parts giant Denso was exposed to quality defects in fuel pump products, resulting in a total recall of 5 million vehicles by many car companies, including Honda, Toyota and Subaru
l Japan's largest supplier of automotive seat belts, Japan's Joyson Safety Systems Co., Ltd., is suspected of tampering with the data of some seat belts that failed to meet the standards in the strength test
[2018]
l Japan's Citizen Electronics Co., Ltd. was exposed to tampering with product data.
l Japan's KYB Industries Co., Ltd. was exposed to tampering with performance inspection record data on the shock isolation device and shock absorbing device.
l Nissan Motor Co. admitted that it had falsified emissions and fuel consumption measurement data at five of its plants in Japan
[2017]
l A restaurant run by the Hyogo Prefecture Agricultural Cooperative in Japan was exposed to providing customers with 3,200 servings of inferior beef and posing as "Kobe beef"
l The Chernobyl of the automobile manufacturing industry-Takata's "dead airbag" incident has led to the recall of more than 100 million vehicles by 19 car companies around the world
l Nissan was blown up and asked inspectors without any qualifications to conduct final inspection of the car leaving the factory
l Toray Hybrid Cord, a tire-reinforced fiber subsidiary of Japanese carbon fiber manufacturer Toray, has falsified test data for eight years, at least 149 times
l Kobe Steel admitted that it tampered with the inspection data of some copper and aluminum products, which was shoddy, and the problem involved more than 200 companies, and the history of tampering with some products was even as long as 10 years
l Non-ferrous metals giant Mitsubishi Materials Co., Ltd. admitted that its subsidiaries Mitsubishi Wire Industry and Mitsubishi Copper Extension had tampered with product data, implicating companies such as Boeing and Airbus
[2016]
l Mitsubishi Motors admits that 625,000 vehicles were tested to falsify fuel consumption
l Toshiba Group falsified fuel consumption data for seven years, involving as many as 620,000 vehicles and more than 2.1 million light automatic vehicles
[2015]
l Toshiba admitted to eight years of financial fraud (2008-2015), involving three successive presidents, involving at least four major business divisions, and amounting to 224.8 billion yen
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