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KYB Corporation (Kayaba)
Major Japanese motorcycle suspension supplier.
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Incident2018
That dual role became one of Japan's most alarming safety scandals. In 2018 KYB admitted its subsidiary had falsified performance data on seismic oil dampers — for roughly 15 years (since ~2003), to avoid production delays — affecting dampers in nearly 1,000 buildings, reportedly including the Tokyo Skytree and the Tokyo metropolitan government headquarters; 410 cases were confirmed and 576 more suspected, forcing a years-long, costly replacement program. It is a stark lesson that a hidden component supplier's integrity is load-bearing for public safety: when the firm that damps your building against earthquakes fakes its test data, the defect stays invisible until the ground actually shakes. [verify: KYB 410 confirmed/576 suspected, Tokyo Skytree, since 2003 confirmed]
The Japan Times ↗Did you know2018
KYB's core hydraulic-damping competency — the same physics behind motorcycle and car shock absorbers — also produces the large oil dampers and seismic isolation devices that protect buildings from earthquakes. So the company behind ordinary vehicle suspension is also a structural-safety supplier whose dampers sit inside skyscrapers (reportedly even the 634m Tokyo Skytree), government buildings and hospitals. A car shock absorber and an earthquake damper are the same engineering at different scale, which is why a suspension maker quietly underpins seismic safety in quake-prone Japan. [verify: KYB seismic dampers in Skytree, 2018 falsification confirmed]
Phys.org / AFP ↗