• The logo of Yoshinoya, a chain of popular beef bowl restaurants in Japan and abroad. Just weeks after it fired a top executive for making sexist remarks about potential new customers, the company drew a backlash on social media after it refused to let a student it assumed was 'foreign' to attend a recruitment event. | AFP-JIJI
    The logo of Yoshinoya, a chain of popular beef bowl restaurants in Japan and abroad. Just weeks after it fired a top executive for making sexist remarks about potential new customers, the company drew a backlash on social media after it refused to let a student it assumed was 'foreign' to attend a recruitment event. | AFP-JIJI

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TOKYO – The Yoshinoya “gyudon” beef bowl restaurant chain refused to allow a university student to attend a recruitment event after assuming the student was a foreign national, an official of the chain’s holding company said Friday.

A recruiter at Yoshinoya Co. based the assumption on background information provided by the student, and told the student that foreign nationals face difficulty in obtaining work visas, according to the official.

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