Toyota taps non-Japanese to help oversee structural overhaul
Toyota Motor Corp. is handing non-Japanese executives major promotions in the third overhaul of its complex business structure in six years, as President Akio Toyoda seeks ways to make the world's largest automaker more nimble. Didier Leroy, appointed to the highest rank for a non-Japanese ...
Hamp case gave oxycodone a bad name, say doctors
The high-profile arrest of former Toyota Motor Corp. executive Julie Hamp last month over importing oxycodone might fuel prejudice in Japan against the narcotic painkillers and other strong pain-relieving drugs, experts fear. Hamp, the automaker's first female managing officer, was released by police without charge ...
Explaining Japan's tough drug rules
Some medications available through prescription or over the counter in the U.S. are prohibited in Japan and cannot be brought into the country. Heroin, cocaine, MDMA, opium, cannabis and stimulant drugs, including some prescription medications such as Adderall, are prohibited. There are no exceptions in bringing ...
Former Toyota Motor Corp. executive Julie Hamp left a Tokyo jail 20 days after police arrested her for violating Japan's drug laws. U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy helped secure the release, said an official. Prosecutors decided not to indict Hamp, 55, who had been held by ...
Prosecutors have released Julie Hamp after deeming that the 55-year-old American had no ill-intent, given that she had her family send oxycodone pills to relieve knee pain, sources said.
Prosecutors will not indict ex-Toyota exec Hamp over painkillers
Former Toyota executive Julie Hamp will not be charged with illegally importing a controlled painkiller, investigative sources say.
Could Hamp's detention reinforce prejudice?
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Julie Hamp, Toyota Motor Corp.'s first female managing officer, on June 18 on suspicion of importing oxycodone, an opioid used to relieve pain. The drug is tightly controlled in Japan but can be imported into the country with a ...
Loss of Toyota's first female executive is blow to Japan's diversity drive
The resignation of Toyota Motor Corp.'s first female executive, who lasted just 90 days in the job, is a blow to Toyota's drive to make management ranks more international and accepting of female executives. It also deals a high-profile setback to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...
Toyota's drug problem, and Japan's
Toyota has a drug problem. The company and CEO Akio Toyoda are dealing with the fallout from a bizarre case surrounding his newly promoted head of global public relations, Julie Hamp. It all started on June 18, when Hamp, an American who moved to Japan ...
U.S. Toyota exec 'asked father to mail' controlled painkiller
An American executive at Toyota Motor Corp. suspected of illegally importing a painkiller considered a narcotic in Japan has told police that the tablets in question were not prescribed for her, investigative sources said Thursday. Julie Hamp, 55, also said that she asked her father ...
Arrested Toyota exec didn't need painkiller, medical checkup finds
Investigators examine why parcel addressed to Julie Hamp contained drug considered stronger than morphine.
