Asahi Kasei suspected of falsifying data in 300 piling projects

Asahi Kasei suspected of falsifying data in 300 piling projects

Masahito Hirai, vice president of Asahi Kasei Corp., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2015. "There were problems in checking systems," he said, following a flurry of data falsification revelations involving Asahi Kasei Construction Materials Corp. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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