Check how "made in Japan" smas

Nishimura qingguo, a ginger sales company based in inoki, kochi prefecture, is suspected of selling chinese-made ginger disguised as kochi, Kochi police arrested company President masahara nishimura on Thursday on suspicion of violating the prevention of improper competition act.

Japanese manufacturing is not as reliable as advertised. Today, let's recall that Japanese companies made fake products.

Takata Airbag event

Founded in 1933 as a family-owned textile company, takata began making and selling airbags in 1987.At its peak, takata had a global market share of nearly 20% for airbags and seat belts, and its reach was enormous.

Takata's airbag problems date back to 2000, when the first consumer complaint to the national transportation safety administration about its faulty airbags went unnoticed. In 2008, Honda first recalled more than 4,000 vehicles for takata airbags. Honda, one of the buyers, found takata guilty of deliberately tampering with test data.

Takata first acknowledged the airbag problem in May 2015 and recalled about 32 million vehicles. What are the hidden dangers of takata airbags? Since the ammonium nitrate gas generator does not carry desiccant, there will be an abnormal risk of damage to the gas generator when the air bag is deployed, and once the debris flies out, it will hurt the passengers in the car.

In late June, takata pledged to cooperate fully with the worldwide recall. In addition, the federal government issued two new orders in the same year, fining takata $70 million and requiring vehicles with defective airbags to be recalled by 2019.

On June 26, 2017, takata, a well-known Japanese auto parts supplier, declared bankruptcy.

Kobe steel data fraud

The falsification of Kobe steel data was easily the biggest scandal in global manufacturing in 2017.Ranked 53rd among global steel companies, Kobe steel is one of the world's top 500 companies, with an annual crude steel output of 7.259 million tons. Japanese prime minister shinzo Abe also worked at the company in 1979.

On October 8, 2017, kobe steel admitted to falsifying data of materials and aluminum produced by its factories from September 2016 to August 2017.What is more shocking is that they started to falsify data 10 years ago, and this behavior has been approved by senior leaders, which is a systematic and substantial problem of the company!

It is reported that more than 200 companies around the world have been affected by the steel. Besides aircraft, motorcycles and air conditioners, car manufacturers including tesla, ford and general motors’ have also been affected. On Oct. 10, solstice and 11, Kobe steel's shares plunged 34%, wiping $1.5 billion off its market value.

Mitsubishi comprehensive material modification product technical parameters

Mitsubishi integrated materials is a Japanese giant. On November 24, 2017, chapter takeuchi, Mitsubishi composite materials co., at press conference acknowledged its subsidiary product data fraud problems the day before, Mitsubishi composite materials published announcement, the company, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi wire industry from April 2015 to September 2017 modified rubber seal products factory technical parameters, the purpose is to achieve company or customer requirements of technical standard, part of the problem products are used in aircraft, ships and cars, affecting more than 200 enterprises.

Mitsubishi integrated materials also announced that copper and aluminum products made by two of its subsidiaries, Mitsubishi stretched copper and Mitsubishi aluminum, were also found to have fake specifications

On February 8, 2018, Mitsubishi integrated materials once again announced that the company's Mitsubishi aluminum Fuji manufacturing facility in shizuoka, Japan, an auto parts factory in niigata, Japan, and a pension factory in gifu prefecture, Japan, were all suspected of falsifying data during product inspection. Mitsubishi materials President takeuchi held a press conference on the same day, admitting that the company's fraud was a fact and apologizing.

Xicheng tampers with product data

On February 9, 2018, the Japanese watch company nishitake timepiece co., ltd. released a sensational investigation report to the outside world, admitting that its subsidiary had tampered with a large number of LED data and parts production areas.

In addition to led-related components, xitiecheng also revealed that its Fuji yoshida subsidiary, xitiecheng electronics, falsified the quality inspection data of leds.The company immediately removed President YoshihiroGota and another executive involved.

For citizen of the third party survey also showed that citizen electronics, from 2012 to 2016, the Chinese subsidiary factory 166, more than 1.3 billion parts of origin altered into "Japan" and offered 119 client companies, tamper with the proportion of 6.7% of the total number of products at the same time - for fear of losing the important customers in North America.

Tsubaki island sells Chinese steel balls disguised as Japanese products

TSUBAKINAKASHIMA is an internationally renowned Japanese machinery parts manufacturer and has been enjoying a reputation as the top manufacturer in the international precision steel ball manufacturing field. Since 1970s, our products have been widely used in manipulator, punch, forging and industrial industries with high precision.

On February 28 this year, Japan's jiji news agency reported that TSUBAKINAKASHIMA purchased Chinese products at a low price and sold them at a high price disguised as Japanese steel ball products. It is reported that since December 16, 2016 solstice February 21, 2018, about 231 million precision steel balls have been sold.

KYB and its subsidiaries tampered with the vibration absorption device test data

KYB is Japan's largest manufacturer of shock absorbers and the world's largest manufacturer of shock absorbers, hydraulic equipment and new products for automobiles. Moreover, it is also a century-old enterprise.

KYB, a Japanese maker of hydraulic equipment, and its subsidiaries have been found to have tamped with data from tests of shock absorbers used in nearly 1,000 buildings across the country, lianhe zaobao reported on November 21.

KYB's shock absorbers use parts and paint that have not been certified by the state, kyodo news agency reported. Of the 70 buildings announced by KYB, 11 do not meet the standards set by the ministry of land, transport and transport. These include the honoshiya building in the central district of Nagoya, the honoshiya building in the central district of Osaka, and the honoshiya building in the central district of chiyoda, Tokyo.

Another 17 buildings do not meet customer requirements, including Nagoya city hall house, nagano county hall house, pinchuan district of Tokyo pinchuan district comprehensive hall house, etc.;The remaining 42 buildings, which have not been proved to have used the tampering data devices but are suspected of being buildings of the ministry of finance, Osaka prefecture hall, beihai hall, etc.

As Japan is a region prone to earthquakes, the shock absorption equipment inside the building is very important, so this incident is more easily focused, can be said to have a great impact on the reputation of this century-old enterprise.

After watching these events, you are not surprised that Japanese products, once known for their quality in the world, have appeared so many frauds on such a large scale. In fact, Japanese enterprises have such as nissan quality inspection door, suzuki oil consumption fraud and many similar counterfeiting events. All of these events tell us that "made in Japan" is not perfect, and that the myth of "made in Japan" will only blind us to its shortcomings.

Of course, on the one hand, these counterfeit events also warned us must not mercenary, shoddy. To make Chinese products go abroad, they must realize high quality and high technology. Cheating and swindling may be a temporary gain, but it is not a long-term solution.