The party’s executivecommittee did not evengrillhim about the Nishimatsu story, politelywaitingto hearwhetherhedeigned to continue as party leader or not.
Business journalists have taken to producing glowing profiles of self-effacing and self-denying bosses such as Haruka Nishimatsu, the boss of Japan Airlines, who travels to work on the bus and pays himself less than his pilots, and Mike Eskew, the former boss of UPS, who flew coach and shares an administrative assistant with three other people.