At a meeting in March of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, diplomats said the company sold a uranium conversion plant to Libya in 1984.

The National Police Agency and several ministries are cooperating with the IAEA to trace the equipment's shipping route, the Yomiuri Shimbun said.

The IAEA found the high-tech equipment unused and in boxes at a nuclear weapons facility in Libya, during inspections between December and March that followed the declaration by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to give up all of the country's weapons of mass destruction, the newspaper said, without citing sources.

Other major newspapers carried similar reports, identifying the company only as "a major precision instruments maker based in Kawasaki," Kanagawa Prefecture.

The Japan Times Weekly: Sept. 18, 2004
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