OSAKA —

A company in Osaka Prefecture fabricated test reports in 2005 on a material used to reinforce concrete, and delivered the product to expressway bridge construction sites at 22 locations, sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. In the reports compiled in April and May 2005, ST Engineering Corp, based in Yao, said its polyethylene sheath met all 10 test criteria introduced by Japan Highway Public Corp in 2004, the sources said. In fact, no such tests were conducted, according to the sources.
   
ST Engineering shipped the product between August 2005 and March this year for use in bridge construction works ordered by Japan Highway and the three expressway operators that were created by the October 2005 privatization and breakup of the public corporation, they said.

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  eastokyo at 11:06 PM JST - 30th March

  Good to see another company quite willing to shaft over everybody else. Just wait til an earthquake flattens those bridges. But being a Japanese company they will apologise in front ot the cameras swiftly, and being a Japanese company all critism will be restrained to lower voices, and in the end there's nothing we can do about it. Make that a foreign company, and whoa baby now we have a problem.

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  Scrote at 08:21 AM JST - 31st March

  This is where the "temporary" fuel tax is being wasted: building sub-standard, unnecessary roads. Fukuda and the LDP are hell-bent on continuing this waste of money.

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  huberts2 at 10:27 AM JST - 31st March

  For eastokyo - there are no foreign construction companies in Japan. If there were we may see less restrictive trade practices and graft associated with politics, and tendering scams.

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