The family of a 22-year-old Zeria Pharmaceutical Co. worker who took his own life during a training program has filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court, seeking damages totaling around ¥100 million from the company, the consulting agency responsible for conducting part of the training program and its instructor at the time.
The family claims the suicide was the result of depression triggered by psychological damage after the worker was forced to confess past experiences of being bullied.
According to the family's lawyer, the man joined the Tokyo-based company in April 2013 as a sales representative and developed depression during a training program for new employees. He killed himself in May of that year on his way home from the site of the program.