Chapter 1561: Forty Years of Faking

Zhou Andong and Alice chatted for more than an hour, Jian Qiu listened from the side, the expression on her face very confused.

When Zhou Andong put down the phone, Jian Qiu asked, "How did you know these things?"

Zhou Andong smiled. "Two years ago, Toshiba had a scandal, do you know?"

Jian Qiu shook her head. "I don't know."

"You give Yuan Wanqi a call, she should be able to find out over there." Zhou Andong said. "I was in Hong Kong last year and saw it in the newspaper by accident.

So I felt that since Toshiba, as a Japanese electronics giant, had such a scandal, would Sony also have a scandal?"

Jian Qiu rolled her eyes. "You are purely talking nonsense, Toshiba has a problem, does Sony necessarily have a problem?"

Zhou Andong said mockingly, "Don't overestimate the integrity of the Japanese. If you really understand them, you will find out how trashy they are. They claim to have craftsmanship spirit, but it's actually a spiritual scam, shown to the whole world."

In this world, in this era, no one understood Japan better than Zhou Andong, and that bullshit craftsmanship spirit.

Hitachi Astemo, formed by Honda and Hitachi, a company specializing in automotive parts, exploded with a huge scandal.

It started faking 40 years ago, and 22 types of products produced, including railway-related braking systems, automotive and motorcycle suspension, braking systems, etc., all had a large number of faking behaviors, and the number of non-compliant products reached as high as 200 million.

Speaking of Japanese industry, what many people think of first is always craftsmanship spirit, craftsmanship quality, decades like one day, manufacturing a part to the extreme.

In his previous life, after this news exploded, Zhou Andong specifically checked it on the internet.

He didn't know until he checked, and he was shocked when he checked; faking wasn't just this one Hitachi Astemo.

Japanese pharmaceutical company Kobayashi Chemical insisted on producing 500 types of substandard drugs for forty years.

With the acquiescence of senior management, 80% of the drugs produced by Kobayashi Chemical were substandard, but they could be sold normally in the market.

Manufacturing giant Kawasaki Heavy Industries and its subsidiaries had multiple electronic equipment faking behaviors, exporting more than 330,000 non-compliant products, and the faking time span also spanned 40 years.

There was also the famous Mitsubishi Electric of Japan, the transformers produced also had huge quality problems, and the faking time span was also 40 years.

And what's more fatal is that these transformers were used in major key livelihood fields, including railways, highways, and even nine Japanese nuclear power plants.

In addition to these giants that faked for 40 years, there were a bunch of companies that faked for more than 20 years.

Japanese chemical giant Toray admitted that its data was faked; in twenty years, a total of 149 cases were faked, affecting 13 parties.

In addition, Japan's third-largest steel production enterprise Kobe Steel, as well as Nissan, Subaru, Takata, and other companies also successively exploded with a series of faking scandals.

And the most typical one was when building the Three Gorges, at that time, a batch of steel plates imported from Japan was received.

Our technical personnel immediately conducted tests and found that in the 4 items of yield strength, tensile strength, elongation performance, and impact toughness tested, they all failed to meet the requirements, and were also far from the technical data provided by the Japanese side's qualified list.

At that time, they thought their testing equipment had a problem, so they changed two laboratories and tested three times, but the results still had problems.

Japan also tried to be unreasonable, saying that China was unprofessional, but we didn't make any concessions. Originally, Japan wanted to use the method of replacing the test materials to change the data above.

But it was discovered by us in the end, and the little devils had no choice but to apologize. At that time, they thought this was Japan's conspiracy to destroy the Three Gorges, but later it seemed that it was just a habit of faking.

In addition, in this search, Zhou Andong found that the little devils didn't just fake, but also had many scandals.

Toshiba, faking for 7 consecutive years, involving at least 4 major business departments, 3 presidents involved, falsely reporting profits of 200 billion yen.

There was also Olympus hiding 1.7 billion US dollars in losses, which was the largest financial faking scandal in the Japanese corporate world.

In addition, there was Sony, using multinational companies to evade taxes through transactions between their own domestic and foreign subsidiaries at prices lower than normal, reaching nearly 100 billion yen.

It's just that after this matter was found out by the Japanese tax department, fearing to cause stock market turmoil, they just quietly let Sony make up the tax, and didn't announce it.

It wasn't until ten years later that it was exploded, and Sony's stock price was like an avalanche. At that time, Sony had already fallen into trouble, and this heavy blow almost knocked Sony down so it couldn't get up.

Therefore, Zhou Andong asked Alice to go to Japan; as long as she got the evidence of Sony's tax evasion scandal, relying on those vampires on Wall Street, they would definitely bite a big piece of meat off Sony.

By then, Jian Dong International could follow to share a bit, and Qiu Dongfang could also drink a mouthful of soup behind.

As for how to get the evidence, that's too simple; with money, even real ghosts can be bought, let alone little devils.

February 14, 1994, the fifth day of the first lunar month, Monday!

Just past eight o'clock in the morning, snowflakes began to drift in the sky.

Ministry of Finance, Director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange Qian Zhendong arrived at the office, and the secretary had already brewed tea for him.

He took off his thick cotton-padded jacket, put his briefcase on the desk, then sat down and picked up the tea cup to take a sip of tea.

The boiling tea water went down his throat into his stomach, and the cold air in his body was dispelled quite a bit.

"Phew!"

Qian Zhendong let out a breath comfortably, turned his head and glanced at the window. "This ghostly weather, it's snowing again."

After muttering, he habitually picked up the newspaper and read it.

The first thing he did when he arrived at the office every day was to read the newspaper.

See what news there was, and what policies the central authorities had issued.

"Hmm?"

Qian Zhendong was attracted by a headline, which was the central authorities' decision to build their own satellite navigation system.

"Finally decided?"

Seeing this news, the corners of Qian Zhendong's eyes were a bit wet. The Yinhe incident in July last year could make every insider feel deep humiliation.

Now the central authorities had finally made up their minds, and Qian Zhendong was truly happy. Only when the country is strong will it not be bullied, and the people, including them, will have the dignity to look at the world.

"Slap, slap, slap!"

The office door was suddenly knocked, and Qian Zhendong came back to his senses.

"Come in!"

The door was gently pushed open, and a young man walked in.

This guy looked very excited, his face flushed, and he was even bouncing a little when he walked.

Qian Zhendong couldn't help but laugh. "What's the matter, making you kid so happy, did you pick up money?"

"Really picked up money." The young man was even more excited. "For no reason, the bureau's foreign exchange account has an extra 1 billion US dollars."