The Japanese authorities initiated an investigation on a possible defect of the iPod of the American signature Apple Inc., later that one of the popular digital music player throw sparks while it was recharged said a governmental functionary on Wednesday.
An official of the Board of Trade and Economy, which supervises the problems of the products so much imported as of national manufacture, especially the electronic ones, said that the investigators suspect that a defect exists in the battery of ions of lithium in the iPod Nano model MA099J/A. The official spoke granting keeping the anonymity and indicated that he was repeating the position of the department.
The problem appeared in January in the province of Kanagawa, to the Southwest of Tokyo, and Apple communicated in March the problem to the department. Nobody turned out to be an injured, added the official.
Apple Japan did not refute the declaration of the department, but they refused to formulate more comments. The Nano reproducer al sold world wide, and it was not clarified, in addition to Japan, in what countries it was sold, there said Masayoshi Suzuki, spokesman of Apple in Tokyo.
