Developers, inspectors deny quake data scandal involvement at Diet

Developers, inspectors deny quake data scandal involvement at Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Susumu Ojima, president of building developer Huser Ltd., one of six key persons linked to widening revelations of earthquake-related building code fabrication, speaks at a session of the House of Representatives Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee as an unsown witness on Nov. 29. All the six denied they were aware of the alleged wrongdoing by architect Hidetsugu Aneha, who is at the center of the scandal.

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