Japanese companies exposed fraud scandal again. Mitsubishi Materials tampered with product data.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, November 23rd (Reporter Ma Caoran, Qian Zheng) Japanese nonferrous metal giant Mitsubishi Materials Co., Ltd. announced on the 23rd that its subsidiaries Mitsubishi Electric Wire Industry and Mitsubishi Shentong had falsified product data, and the number of affected enterprises reached 258.

　　The announcement pointed out that the number of rubber sealing rings produced by Mitsubishi Electric Wire Co., Ltd. from April 2015 to September 2017 was found to have tampered with the data, reaching about 270 million, involving 229 customers. Among them, there are 70 aerospace customers. This product is widely used in automobiles, ships, aircraft engines and other equipment. Unqualified products involve ships and aircraft engines of the Japanese Self-Defense Force.

　　The copper products produced by Mitsubishi Shentong Ruosong Manufacturing Co., Ltd. from October 18, 2016 to October 17, 2017 had data tampering, and the problem copper products reached 879 tons, involving 29 customers. This material is mainly used in automobile industry, and Mitsubishi Shentong tampered with the most important strength data.

　　Mitsubishi Electric Wire and Mitsubishi Shentong discovered the problem as early as October this year, but they did not announce it to the public, which was strongly criticized by the outside world.

　　In addition, Mitsubishi Aluminum, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Materials, was also exposed to data fraud. However, the company said that it has confirmed the product quality and safety to all customers and did not disclose more information.

　　This is the second time that Japanese manufacturing companies have exposed data fraud scandals. Previously, Kobe Steel Works was also exposed to product data fraud, while Nissan and Subaru were exposed to "quality inspection doors". The product quality control that Japanese companies were proud of was repeatedly questioned by the outside world. Some analysts pointed out that data fraud has the risk of expansion within the Japanese non-ferrous metal industry.

　　Mitsubishi Materials is a Japanese nonferrous metal giant, which was reorganized by Mitsubishi Metals and Mitsubishi Mining in 1990. In fiscal year 2016, the operating income reached 1.3040 trillion yen, the net profit was 28.3 billion yen, and the number of employees reached 25,000.