DHC under fire over CEO’s comments on Koreans
AFP, TOKYO
A major Japanese cosmetics firm yesterday faced online boycott calls after its CEO used a racial slur for Koreans, and boasted his firm was “pure Japanese.”
DHC’s Yoshiaki Yoshida made the comments in a message on the company’s Web site in which he attacked rival Suntory, a major beverage manufacturer that competes with DHC in the health supplement sector.
“For some reason, the models hired for Suntory’s commercials are almost all Korean-Japanese. So that’s why it seems they’re mocked on the Internet as ‘Chontory,’” Yoshida wrote.