The Japanese emissions equipment maker that humbled VW

Hiroshi Nakamura, 42, joined Horiba in 1998 and began developing its first portable, on-board emissions analyzer, the OBS-1000. (BLOOMBERG)

By:

Masatsugu Horie Craig Trudell

October 02, 2015 05:00 AM

KYOTO, Japan -- Hiroshi Nakamura heard the news early Saturday morning last month from a U.S. colleague: Volkswagen AG had just admitted to years of cheating on emissions tests.

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