A managing director for gyudon beef bowl restaurant chain Yoshinoya Co has been dismissed over inappropriate remarks about young women made at a university-hosted lecture, the parent company said Tuesday. Masaaki Ito, 49, also an executive officer at the parent company, Yoshinoya Holdings Co, was giving a lecture Saturday on…
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Major Japanese beef bowl firm Yoshinoya Holdings Co Ltd sacked a managing director who made derogatory comments about getting naive young women "hooked" on the company's products, saying his conduct was "completely unacceptable."
The Yoshinoya executive asked students to come up with an attractive marketing strategy that would get "innocent young girls" hooked on the chain's signature dish as though it were drugs.
In the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese photographer Masaaki Ito found warmth and comfort in some unlikely friends: the stray cats of Tokyo. As the country grieved, he rediscovered joy in the homeless felines, who roamed the streets in search of food, company, or a kind gesture. For the past few years, Ito has been chronicling the many adventures of the cats he endearingly calls his “neighbors.”