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West Japan Railway Co. reports 621 false records on tunnel, bridge checks.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2004
Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 6--OSAKA, Japan -- West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) said Tuesday it has found 621 cases of fabrication of records in its documents since March 2000, most of them falsely suggesting that regular inspections of tunnels and bridges along the Sanyo Shinkansen Line and conventional train lines had been conducted.
According to JR West, there were many cases in which officials forgot to conduct inspections or failed to do so within the designated time. There was one case in which inspections had been way behind schedule for 223 days.
The revelations are a result of the company's investigation of record-fabrication cases, after similar cases surfaced when company insiders...
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