Recently, Mitsubishi Electric, a century-old Japanese company, was found to have data fraud problems in its production transformers. Moreover, this fraud can be traced back to at least 1982, with a span of 40 years.
In early March, Hina Auto , a subsidiary of the world's well-known car brand Toyota , was also found to have fake engine data.
can be deceived for a while, but not for a lifetime.
In fact, as early as 2000 more than 20 years ago, Japan sold unqualified steel to China, and almost pitted Three Gorges Dam .
In early 2000, the Three Gorges Project adopted an international bidding method and finalized a supply contract with Sumitomo Metal Industry Co., Ltd., the then Japanese steel manufacturing giant.
contract stipulates that Japan's Sumitomo Metal Industry provides 4,000 tons of low-alloy carbon structural steel plates to the Three Gorges Project, with a total value of more than 1.7 million US dollars, and also writes various parameter indicators, as well as technical details such as allowed errors, into the terms one by one.
In early May 2000, the batch of steel plates provided by Japan arrived in the Sanxia Dam area, but problems also arise.
When the Japanese steel plate arrived, the Three Gorges Engineering Office intercepted the steel plate sample billet for testing according to the procedures. The result of
surprised everyone. As a Japanese steel manufacturing giant, Sumitomo Metal Industry Co., Ltd.'s alloy products did not meet the contract requirements in four projects, including yield strength , tensile strength , extension performance, and impact toughness .
However, according to the construction design of the Three Gorges Project, this batch of steel plates will be made into water-draining steel pipes, poured into the concrete dam for permanent use, and will be directly connected to the water turbine generator set , and its importance is self-evident.
Out of caution, the inspector expanded the sampling ratio and conducted a secondary inspection of Japanese steel plates. The results were no different from the first time, and none of the sample blanks were qualified.
holds the test data, the Three Gorges Project requires Sumitomo Metal Industry Co., Ltd. to solve the problem as soon as possible.
did not expect this reasonable request, which was rejected by the Japanese side. The other party patted his chest and promised: We are a world-class brand-name enterprise and there will never be such quality problems.
However, this arrogant guarantee cannot solve the problem at all, so the Japanese side began to delay debating and gave a clear reply after nearly a month of delaying, requiring Sanxia to issue official documents for inspection and quarantine, otherwise Japan would not bear any responsibility.
In desperation, in June 2000, four Japanese steel plate samples were sent to the Wuhan Institute of Steel Research and Steel Research in June 2000, represented by the Hubei Provincial Entry and Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.
After experiments, the impact toughness of three samples was still unqualified. According to Japanese requirements, a certificate of unqualified was issued.
The Japanese who were asking for hammering were finally willing to send a negotiating team to come to China to solve the problem.
However, during the negotiation process, Japanese corporate representatives came to "Made in Japan" as endorsement, pledging to ensure that the product quality is OK, and on the other hand, they found various reasons to argue and tried their best to shirk responsibility.
Japanese side saw that the negotiators of the Three Gorges Project did not waver at all about the quality requirements, and used a slow-moving strategy to require a comparison and re-inspection between China and Japan.
After a debate, the two sides finally decided that the Three Gorges Project established an expert group to send the sample bill to the Quality Inspection Center of Wuhan Iron and Steel Group for testing, which is a laboratory certified by the China Import and Export Commodity Quality Certification Committee; at the same time, the Japanese side also brought the sample bill back to Japan for product testing.
html In early July, the expert group issued a re-inspection report based on the results of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Quality Inspection Center, which determined that Japanese steel products were unqualified. According to this report, they filed a claim with Japanese companies, requiring the other party to bear the corresponding responsibility for delaying the construction period of the Three Gorges Project.The Japanese side's attitude at this time is completely different from two months ago. Not only did they bow and apologize, but they were very polite.
Later, I found out the reason for this. It turned out that the samples brought back to China by the Japanese side were also unqualified during public testing.
Finally, Sumitomo Metal Industry Co., Ltd. officially announced that it would "fully accept the results of steel plate quality inspection of steel plates issued by China's inspection and quarantine department." All the steel plates it provided to Sanxia were returned and corresponding economic compensation was borne.
If the inspectors were not conscientious and conscientious at that time, if they believed the Japanese's rhetoric and guarantees, if they were blindly superstitious about "Made in Japan", it would be likely to cause generator set accidents, and even structural damage to the dam body, and economic losses would reach one billion or even tens of billions... More importantly, if the Three Gorges Project was caused by the inferior steel plates provided by Japan, the consequences would be really unimaginable.
In recent years, Japan's fraud in all aspects has been frequently exposed, and it can be said that it has become fake.
is like the Mitsubishi Electric we mentioned at the beginning. The test data fraud has been a long time. From 1982 to the present, the fraud transformer involved has been insisted on fraud for more than 40 years. It is said that it has flowed into 9 operating nuclear power plants in Japan, hiding serious safety risks.
Moreover, this Mitsubishi Electric Company is still a habitual criminal of fraud.
From 2017 to 2020, Mitsubishi Electric exported more than 330,000 non-compliant car audio parts to Europe by forging relevant inspection documents.
is not difficult to see that under the golden sign of "Made in Japan", there is a mud pond of system fraud.
Mitsubishi Electric Transformer Data Falsification and Hino Automobile Data Falsification are just revealed this year. In 2021, Chinese eel pretended to be a Japanese "domestic eel" and Chinese clams scattered on the beach as a "Nissan clam" to harvest the IQ tax that advocates Japanese food.
In addition, Japan's Shuguang Brake Industry Company has been reported to have been falsified for 20 years, Japan's Kobayashi Chemical Industry has been reported to have been falsified for 40 years, and 80% of the 500 drugs have been falsified.
In 2018, data was reported to be falsified in Kobe Steel, Japan, and the problem involved more than 200 companies. In the same year, Japan's Citizen Electronics Company was reported to tamper with product data.
In 2017, Japan's Nissan Automobile was exposed to have no qualifications conduct final inspections on the car leaving the factory.
In 2016, Japanese manufacturers took Chinese bearings and impersonated "Japanese products" to export them to Europe and the United States.
and Japan's Toshiba Group were exposed for financial fraud for 7 years, Japan's Mitsubishi Group was exposed for fuel consumption data for 25 years, Japan's Olympus Group was exposed for financial fraud for hiding losses and deceiving shareholders for 20 years... The list of
is too long to list one by one.
Of course, although there seem to be many problems, no matter how many or complicated the problems are, it cannot be solved without bowing and apologizing.
lowers his head, bends, bows, and 90 degrees, just hides his swollen face.
