Tokyo police have raided a Japanese company that suspected of removing equipment that could be used for making nuclear weapons. Police believe Mitsutoyo, which manufactures and sells precision measuring equipment, illegally sold equipment that could be used in uranium enrichment to Japanese companies in China and Thailand. It happens in 2001 and 2002. The company officials were not immediately available for comment because the police personnel would not confirm the reports. Mitsutoyo is located in Kawasaki near Tokyo. It was founded in 1934 and has about 2,300 employees in Japan and 2,000 overseas. Meantime, the Japanese trade ministry said last month that it was familiarizing with Yamaha Motor on suspicion that it had sold China a number of small helicopters that could have military missing. A Yamaha Motor representative said then that the company has exported 9 RMAX L181 helicopters to a Chinese firm called BVE. But he declaimed the helicopters could not be modified for military needs. It’s because of their flying behaviors and other technical causes.

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