Hidetoshi Tanaka, the disgraced former board chairman of Nihon University and onetime vice president of the Japan Olympic Committee (JOC), has died, informed sources said.
Hidetoshi Tanaka, a former board chairman at Nihon University, one of Japan's biggest universities, and known as an amateur sumo wrestler, has died, sources close to the matter said Saturday. He was 77. A former student yokozuna at the university, where he entered in 1965 and started working following graduation,…
Scandal-hit Nihon University on June 3 appointed award-winning author Mariko Hayashi, an alumni of the Tokyo-based institution, to head its board to clean up the mess left by her predecessor and other top officials.
Tokyo's Nihon University has appointed award-winning author Mariko Hayashi to head its board in an effort to revamp its leadership after a series of scandals involving a former board chairman, sources close to the matter said. Hayashi, 68, a graduate of the school who is scheduled to take up the…
Nihon University in Tokyo on June 3 appointed award-winning novelist Mariko Hayashi as board chair, a post that was vacated by a powerful, long-term chairman who became embroiled in scandal.