The #MeToo movement may have finally made its way to corporate Japan: The president of a blue chip company has resigned after a subordinate he was traveling with made sexually explicit remarks to an airline employee.
The junior executive from NH Foods Ltd., a Nikkei 225-listed company with more than 15,000 workers, resigned last month, as did President Juichi Suezawa.
Suezawa was present during the exchange between the subordinate and an airline worker at Tokyo's Haneda airport in October. While he was not directly involved, media reports linked his resignation to complaints over the comments.