Goodwill Group Inc., the parent of scandal-hit nursing care provider Comsn Inc., said Monday it would withdraw completely from the sector and leave the business assets of the industry's top player up for grabs.
Goodwill's other nursing business subsidiaries, including NSS Corp., which was tapped last week as the successor to Comsn's business in an ill-conceived plan, are also expected to be sold. However, Goodwill did not specify the timing of its withdrawal, saying it depends on how the sale of its nursing care businesses proceeds.
The rising public uproar over Comsn's alleged certification fraud represents a remarkable fall from grace for Goodwill Chairman Masahiro Origuchi, who made a sensational debut in the nursing care business in 1997 after running Tokyo's hottest night club earlier in the decade. He now retreats from one of Japan's most rapidly growing business areas.