 The same blog published another article in December 2007 about the claim that the company's products had been chosen as the "Best Chocolate in America" by a taste-testing panel in "The Nikkei", which NōKA identified as the "world's largest business daily".However, this panel's original results never appeared in the main edition of "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" (circulation ~5,000,000); their taste test was published only in the much smaller subsidiary "Nikkei American Edition" (circulation 12,650) as a paid advertisement.Responding to the ten-part series, the company issued a statement on the site that originally hosted it.