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Japan Times
12-05-2025
- Business
- Japan Times
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The transport ministry on Monday issued a strict warning to Japan Airport Terminal over its subsidiary's inappropriate transactions that benefited a consultant firm headed by the eldest son of Makoto Koga, former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The ministry summoned Kazuhito Tanaka, president of the operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport, and gave the warning over misconduct related to a massage chair business in a terminal building at the airport. The ministry said it is "regrettable" that a company responsible for public infrastructure has been involved in long-term misconduct at the airport terminal. It urged the company to revise its compliance audit system and continue to report to the ministry on the status of measures to prevent a recurrence. On Friday, a special investigation committee set up by the company announced that the inappropriate transactions had continued for many years, led by former company president Nobuaki Yokota and tolerated by former chairman Isao Takashiro. Yokota and Takashiro resigned the same day. Following the ministry's warning, Japan Airport Terminal said that it will make sincere efforts to prevent a recurrence and regain trust.
12-05-2025
- Business
Transport Ministry Issues Warning to Japan Airport Terminal
News from Japan May 12, 2025 15:50 (JST) Tokyo, May 12 (Jiji Press)--Japan's transport ministry on Monday issued a strict warning to Japan Airport Terminal Co. over its subsidiary's inappropriate transactions that benefited a consultant firm headed by the eldest son of Makoto Koga, former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The ministry summoned Kazuhito Tanaka, president of the operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport, and gave the warning over misconduct related to a massage chair business in a terminal building at the airport. The ministry said it is "regrettable" that a company responsible for public infrastructure has been involved in long-term misconduct at the airport terminal. It urged the company to revise its compliance audit system and continue to report to the ministry on the status of measures to prevent a recurrence. On Friday, a special investigation committee set up by the company announced that the inappropriate transactions had continued for many years, led by former company president Nobuaki Yokota and tolerated by former chairman Isao Takashiro. Yokota and Takashiro resigned the same day. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Yomiuri Shimbun
10-05-2025
- Business
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Inappropriate Transactions Found at Japan Airport Terminal
The Yomiuri Shimbun Kazuhito Tanaka, left, president of Japan Airport Terminal Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Friday. TOKYO (Jiji Press) — An investigation committee set up by Japan Airport Terminal Co. said Friday that a subsidiary engaged in inappropriate transactions that benefited a consultant firm headed by the 52-year-old son of Makoto Koga, former secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The panel found that the transactions were led by Japan Airport Terminal President Nobuaki Yokota and tolerated by Chairman Isao Takashiro. Both Yokota and Takashiro resigned on the day. The panel's investigation found that the Tokyo-based subsidiary, Big Wing Co., paid a total of some ¥400 million to the consultant firm over 10 years through 2016 in the guise of commission fees for a massage chair business at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, although actual work was performed by another company. The payments continued even after the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau warned that they amounted to concealment of income totaling about ¥100 million. The panel found no evidence that the company sought favors from Koga or his son. 'As a company that provides public services, we should never engage [in such transactions],' Kazuhito Tanaka, who became president of Japan Airport Terminal on Friday, told a press conference in Tokyo. 'We take the matter extremely seriously.' The new president said the company will cut ties with Koga's son and consider seeking damages after consulting with lawyers.
