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By YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Desert Tortoise
The American press has covered this matter and their take is very different from that of the Japanese press. The Toyota engineers looked at the various standards their cars have to meet and chose the toughest standards, typically but not exclusively those for the US market and tested their cars to those standards. Their engineers certified them to meet the Japanese standards because they met the tougher standards of other nations, usually but not exclusively those for the US market.
The Japanese regulators are getting their panties in a bunch because after meeting the tougher standards abroad Toyota and other Japanese auto manufacturers didn't didn't do another round of expensive tests to the lower standards Japan requires. According to articles I have read in the US the engineers at Toyota and some other Japanese car makers are furious with the Japanese regulators for being so bone headed on the matter. Their take is, why waste time and money testing to less rigorous Japanese standards just to sign them off in Japan when their cars already greatly exceed those standards to meet the more rigorous standards abroad? They deeply resent being called cheaters. They didn't cheat. They tested their products well beyond what Japan requires. It really chaps their backsides.
kuroneko
Do you have a single source for your above claim? I can't find anything like that, even in overseas sources. I could only find this quote from the previous reporting of this scandal around 1 month ago:
But that is very different to what you are claiming.
4123
Chairman of Toyota, Akio Toyoda has caused backlash by his arrogant remarks that demand to overlook such scandal because Toyota is Japanese leading corporation.
Torelol
That is absolutely false.
According to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, "The European Union (EU) and Japan have the most stringent standards in the world. The fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission performance of the U.S. cars and light trucks—both historically and projected based on current policies—lags behind most other nations".
Dochira
Interested in whether there was fraudulent intent, or just laziness -- not clear from this article.