Company unaware exporting sensitive devices was illegal

KAWASAKI, Japan - Kazusaku Tezuka, president of high-tech precision instruments maker Mitutoyo Corp., denies at a press conference that the company had knowingly engaged in illegal exports of machinery that may be converted for use in nuclear weapons production. Police raided the company the previous day on suspicion of exporting three-dimension precision-measuring machines, which could be used to make centrifuge machines to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons to China and Thailand around 2001 and 2002 without authorization from the government. (Kyodo)

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