Recently, Panasonic Industries, a subsidiary of Panasonic, a well-known Japanese manufacturing group, admitted to decades of data fraud and production violations when applying for product quality certification.。The head of the company apologized to the public at a press conference on the 12th and said it would be investigated by a third party.。Some of the violations reportedly began as early as the 1980s and involved seven of the company's factories in Japan and overseas, affecting a total of 52 products and implicating about 400 customer companies, although whether they involved the Chinese market is still being confirmed.。