According to "Global Times" reported on March 4, Japanese police arrested a machinery manufacturing enterprises four stakeholders on the grounds that they secretly exported to China and Korea "can be used to make nuclear weapons," the sensitive machinery.

Of the news came out, the sites have reproduced, and aroused much attention.

Blocked Japan's export machine

Related news from Japan noted that Japan's police to arrest the grounds of violating the law in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, a large machinery manufacturer's four employees, including the company's overseas sales director of the United States to Keisuke.

According to Japanese police revealed that since 2002, the company to Asia, Europe, dozens of countries export about 700 sets of sophisticated machine tools. Prohibit the export of precision products to avoid the relevant provisions of the plant through the false ways to change most of the low mechanical performance and reporting. Four employees were arrested because they are directly in 2004 and 2006, in the relevant export documents to fill a forged low precision, and thus evade inspection, exporting to China and South Korea 16 Taiwan Automatic Tool Changer CNC machine tools . This machine can be less accurate to millimeter precision operations, often used to make auto parts, can be transferred for the manufacture of uranium enrichment centrifuge parts. Japanese police suspect the company's other management personnel are also involved in the incident, and the company's director of residential Tianya Fu Jian conducted a search.

It is understood that the purchase of such machinery companies in China and South Korea are from the automotive industry, not the military enterprise. So far not been confirmed that the company sells machinery to be used for nuclear weapons development, but the police believe, can not rule out the export products in the past, some were shipped to other countries after the nuclear developed countries. Japanese TV stations and a number of media reports of the incident, and has repeatedly stressed that the machine tool exports to China and South Korea. It is understood that 16 sets of machines, 10 sets exported to China, Taiwan exports to South Korea 6.

Technical barriers will suffer in recent years, technical barriers and lead to frequent cases.

Reporter interviewed several major machine tool business. According to reports, they are more or less had a similar situation. A manufacturer of heavy-duty machine tool companies that had been imported from Japan CNC System While the other was terminated abruptly Cooperation , Which makes us very passive. There's business after the contract is signed, the project has been started, the foundation has been dug up, it was the other withdrawals, and more Japanese machine tool companies the product has been shipped to the port, not sold. So we then angry and helpless.

China Machine Tool Industry Association executive vice president in as Ting said: "In recent years, countries 'technical barriers' increasingly strict, companies encountered in the absorption of imported technology from abroad increased resistance."

, According to a person familiar with that fact, China and Japan co-operative enterprises, and the Japanese government to obstruct. This approach of the Japanese machine tool industry is no benefit, after all, the Chinese market is contested.

Cheng Ting told reporters in China is the country with the largest machine tool imports in Japan, their number accounts for one third of China's total imports of machine tools. Japan's machine tool industry feared and lose the market, not selling high-end product, which is obviously contradictory.

It is understood that Japan's machine tool industry has been offset by the export slowdown in domestic demand.

According to the Japanese Machine Tool Industry data show that in June 2008 the total machine tool orders (Express) to 128.1 billion yen, less than 2.7% in the same month last year. Domestic demand in Japan for 5 months, less than a year, foreign demand is also lower than the previous year there were 5 conditions and their overall situation. Domestic and external demand are lower than the previous year was the first time in 6 years. In North America, luxury cars and pickup trucks for parts such as automobile export processing machines noticeable signs of slowing down. Japan Machine Tool Association

related said the Japanese government blocked the way of technology is not appropriate, technical block, but also lost part of the market, this is a lose-lose.