Mitsuru Sakai, then president of the cosmetics manufacturer D-UP (Tokyo), has taken responsibility for the suicide of a female employee (25 at the time) due to his own power harassment, and has agreed to resign from his position as president and pay 150 million yen to the surviving family together with the company. The surviving family revealed this at a press conference on the 11th.
According to her family, the woman joined the company in April 2021. In December of that year, when she met with the company president for visiting a client without permission, he called her a "stray dog" and scolded her for a long time. The next day, he also told her, "Weak dogs bark more."
The woman was diagnosed with depression in January 2022 and attempted suicide in August. She survived but remained unconscious and died in October of the following year.
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