By Lisa Lacy

Almost exactly a year after the suicide of a 24-year-old employee that helped shine a spotlight on what has been called a unforgiving culture of overwork, the president and CEO of advertising and PR firm Dentsu has resigned.

In a press conference in Tokyo on December 28, Tadashi Ishii reportedly said he was stepping down in order to “take responsibility as a manager for failing to fix the company’s notoriously punishing culture of overtime work,” which is believed to have prompted the suicide of Matsuri Takahashi last year.

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Source: The Drum