Japan:Mitutoyo falsifies Iranian recipient's name to get export permission(nuke-related equipment)

Kyodo news ^ | 08/26/06

[mware]

falsified the name of the Iranian corporate recipient of a high-tech measuring machine in 1997 in filing an application document for an export permit from the Japanese government, investigative sources said Saturday.

Must be Bush's fault.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #20

Yahoo! News kindly suggested to me that it could be Mitutoyo, when I typed in Mishitoyo(which was also wrong.)

Yahoo! really messed up the spelling this time.:)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #19

Don't forget Kongsberg, a Norwegian company, who was in that scheme with Toshiba.

[Vinnie]

Re #23
Never heard of them.
Wasn't there a German Co. that sold the lathes to use in conjunction with the Toshiba products?

[snowsislander]

OK, I'm nit-picking, but shouldn't this company's name be spelled Mitsutoyo?

Looking at their website, I think it is going to be the kunrei romanization mitutoyo rather than the Hepburn mitsutoyo.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #24

From http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1987/11/bonker.html

/snip

Within several months of the NAS study, Congress learned that subsidiaries of Japan's Toshiba Corporation and Kongsberg, a Norwegian firm, had diverted highly sensitive propeller milling equipment and know-how to the Soviet Union, thereby enabling the Soviets to greatly diminish the noise of their submarine fleet.

These two events should convince every observer - from the most trade-oriented businessperson to the most fervent anti-communist of the need to reform our nation's restrictions on the export of high technology.

/snip

[Vinnie]

Thanks.

I've bought my last lutefish. :)

[DTogo]

Interesting that the company spells its own name as ミツトヨ. Another Engrish mistake it would seem.

[KeepUSfree]

cool - little Lennier

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Absolutely right. Toshiba is on my never buy list.

[lesser_satan]

In February, the Tokyo police raided Mitutoyo on suspicion of exporting 3-D precision measuring machines to China and Thailand in 2001 and 2002.

Media-speak for a CMM? I once saw a show on discovery that referred to an end-mill as a "special drill bit".

[Abathar]

Yeah, they do offer a wide selection of CMM's, sounds like that was what it was. I guess the tape measures they had just didn't cut the mustard.

Was the endmill center cutting? :-)

[snowsislander]

Interesting that the company spells its own name as ミツトヨ. Another Engrish mistake it would seem.

DTogo, the kana つ / ツ can be written either in the Hepburn system as "tsu" or in the kunrei/nihonshiki systems as "tu".

Here's a chart from the Wikipedia page on romaji systems (sorry, but the diacritical marks on the first two lines have gone mojibake):

Kana	Revised Hepburn	Kunrei-shiki	Nihon-shiki
うう	ū	û	û
おう, おお	ō	ô	ô
し	shi	si	si
しゃ	sha	sya	sya
しゅ	shu	syu	syu
しょ	sho	syo	syo
じ	ji	zi	zi
じゃ	ja	zya	zya
じゅ	ju	zyu	zyu
じょ	jo	zyo	zyo
ち	chi	ti	ti
つ	tsu	tu	tu
ちゃ	cha	tya	tya
ちゅ	chu	tyu	tyu
ちょ	cho	tyo	tyo
ぢ	ji	zi	di
づ	zu	zu	du
ぢゃ	ja	zya	dya
ぢゅ	ju	zyu	dyu
ぢょ	jo	zyo	dyo
ふ	fu	hu	hu

[dsc]

That has irritated me for decades now, as it seems clear to me that the kunrei/nihonshiki systems are just simply wrong.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. They do not correctly represent the phonemes in question. We need to round up their followers and burn them at the stake.

[dsc]

Not unusual.

Somebody already mentioned the Toshiba betrayal. The way we found out about that was that our Navy sonar techs immediately picked up on the much quieter screws.

I once did an annual report in which the company wanted to brag about having started doing business with North Viet Nam during the Viet Nam war. Apparently, it just didn't occur to them that some Americans might take exception to that.