Rogue inspection dragnet widens | 日本のニュースを英語で読むならジャパンタイムズウィークリー


	UPDATE: Saturday, June 12, 2010 The Japan Times Weekly 2005年12月3日号（バックナンバー）

News

Affiliated sites

Rogue inspection dragnet widens

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport officials will visit 105 of 123 building inspection firms nationwide in the wake of the quake-proofing data falsification scandal that broke in November. The ministry, which will inspect the 48 state-authorized firms by the end of the year and order prefectures to conduct similar probes into 57 building inspection firms authorized by their governors, will also inspect 419 state-authorized municipal offices involved in the screening of building data.

A committee of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry at a construction site in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, for an inspection visit

After it was revealed that the Chiba Prefecture-based architect Hidetsugu Aneha had faked earthquake resistance data on a large number of buildings, an emergency study conducted by the ministry found that 18 of the state-authorized building inspection firms had failed to carry out proper screening procedures, including reviewing some of the necessary documents, when checking building plans.

This prompted the ministry to inspect these firms to learn more about how they actually conduct screenings. The emergency survey found that 18 firms including eHomes Inc. -- which failed to detect 27 cases of doctored data falsification -- did not verify whether all of the required documents were attached to plans.

Main Page　｜　Japan Times Online　｜　Subscribe　｜　link policy　｜　privacy policy