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Red yeast rice malt damage] Urine foaming and stabbing pain… The true reason for the “fearless smile in direct response to this magazine” by the elite president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s founding family

Akihiro Kobayashi (52) Five people who used "Red Yeast Rice Supplement" died and 157 were hospitalized. He apologized in tears at the general shareholders' meeting, but for some reason he smiled and ......

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What are his thoughts on responsibility for the problem? We directly interviewed President Kobayashi, who came out of the press conference room as we mentioned at the beginning of this article.

–Excuse me, can I just say something?

………….”

He did not respond to our call at all. His expression showed a sense of fatigue.

However, as he passed by the reporter, his cheeks lifted dramatically. For a brief moment, President Kobayashi (photo above) smiled clearly. I wondered if his expression was simply his cheeks getting stiff, or if he had other true intentions. …… Without uttering a word, he got into the pickup truck and left the venue.

I made several visits to the large mansion in Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, where his parents and Chairman Kazumasa Kobayashi live, only to hear a woman’s voice over the intercom reply, “I won’t be back today.

With a closed corporate culture and opaque management conditions, there is a mountain of issues to be examined. The health supplements have caused the deaths of many people. The responsibility of the one-man founding family is too heavy.

He did not respond to any calls for help. When I pointed a camera at him, an employee assigned to security guarded him. President Kobayashi went to his car in silence.
Chairman Kazumasa’s house stands in Rokurokuso, an upscale residential area in Ashiya City. It is a mansion boasting a site area of approximately 1,300 m2.
The Osaka factory where puberulic acid was detected has already been closed. The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has entered the plant and is conducting inspections.
Unpublished story on the president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical! Heavy responsibility of an elite president, the “sixth generation of the founding family
Interview with the president of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical! The heavy responsibility of the elite president of the “sixth generation of the founding family

From the April 19, 2024 issue of “FRIDAY

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