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October 22, 2018

Japan orders firm to fix quake shock absorbers

  • Experts said the falsified quality data do not mean that hundreds of buildings equipped with the shock absorbers would fail.
    • By MARI YAMAGUCHI
    Associated Press

    TOKYO — The Japanese government has ordered a company that falsified quality data for earthquake “shock absorbers” used in hundreds of buildings to speed up an investigation and fix any problems quickly.

    KYB Corp. said last week that it and a subsidiary had been faking data on the equipment designed to absorb quake shakings since the early 2000s.


     
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