| This week NHK reported on TV news that JQA, the largest ISO certification body in Japan, was disclosed eighty million yen tax evasion by national tax offices. |
| TV said that the body had hired many part-time assessors to meet the rapid increase of ISO assessments and had paid the fees for them lower than entered in the books. It had falsified accounts. Thus the difference between true payments and the book accounts had amounted to about eighty million yen, the TV news said . |
| It is the most shameful case in Japanese quality history. |