Cosmetics Company Fined: A Japanese court has fined a cosmetic company Rs 90 crore. An employee committed suicide after harassment at the workplace.
Workplace harassment cases in japan: In the case of suicide by an employee after harassment at the workplace, the Tokyo-based cosmetic company D-up corporation and its chairman have been ordered by the Japanese court to compensate the employee’s family with a compensation of 150 million yen (about Rs 90 crore). Social media users wrote that this decision of the court will give strength to those girls who face harassment at the workplace and such owners will now think once before making a mistake.
Harassment at workplace
The 25-year-old girl named Satomi joined the Japanese company D-UP in April 2021. However, within a few months, he faced serious mental harassment from the company’s president Mitsuru Sakai. In December 2021, when meeting a client without permission, Sakai reprimanded Satomi and humiliated him as a ‘dog dog’. The next day, Sakai again tortured Satomi in front of other employees, saying that ‘the weak dog barks loudly’.
The family alleged in the court that these incidents deeply affected Satomi’s mental health and the same harassment caused his death. By January 2022, Satomi was depressed due to harassment in the office and had to take leave from work. Later in August the same year, he attempted suicide and died in October 2023 after being unconscious for more than a year. Subsequently, his parents filed a case in the Japanese court in July 2023, alleging that he died due to the bad behavior of the company’s president and the company’s failure to protect him.
In May 2024, the Labor Standard Inspection Office found that Satomi had a connection between death, harassment at the workplace, depression and subsequent death, and the case was officially declared an accident -related accident. On September 9, 2025, the Tokyo district court ruled in favor of the family. The court ruled that the company and its president are responsible for the death of Satomi. In addition to compensation of 150 million yen, the court also demanded that the Sakai is disqualified for the post of president of the company and should leave the post.