At the middle of September, a local newspaper reported illegal disposition of old tires by employees of big tire-manufacturing factory in its local area.
The management representative of the factory's environmental management system had been eager to achieve its environmental management program and when he felt the target would not achieved he thought of cheating disposal data.
Then he forced employees to dispose secretly old tires in areas near their residence. The data did not included in the formal disposal data and thus the target was achieved. But an exposure within the factory revealed the fact.

Recently in Japan almost every day cover-ups by big companies has been reported by national newspapers, such as coverups of damage at the utility's nuclear power plant by Tokyo Electric Power Co., mislabeling of meat by Nippon Meat Packers, etc.

I think such pure fabrications basically have been generated by " quality of conformance" and have resulted in moral degeneracy of employees.

Quality in Japan is about to be taken over by coverup documents merchants.

It reminds Japanese of the basic concept of Toyota production system of " Bad news first".