(Yicai) June 6 -- The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said it will monitor Japanese carmakers for any compliance issues in the country, claiming that their local joint ventures are not involved in the ongoing auto safety scandal in Japan.

The CAAM has been paying great attention to compliance issues in the global auto manufacturing industry, CCTV reported yesterday, citing the association's Deputy Chief Engineer Wang Yao. The reported violations do not happen in the Japanese firms' Chinese JVs, Wang added.

Japan has probed 85 automakers and equipment manufacturers on forging test data, concluding its investigation on 68 of them as of the end of last month. Issues were found at Toyota Motor, Mazda Motor, Yamaha Motor, Honda Motor, and Suzuki Motor, according to local media reports.

Toyota and Mazda halted production of five models involved in the incident on June 6. The former made around 130,000 units of three models last fiscal year, while the latter produced about 15,000 units of two models.

Editor: Martin Kadiev