The new president of Kokudo Corp. vowed Monday to break with the ironhanded ways of the company's former patriarch and clean up scandal-ridden subsidiary Seibu Railway.
"At our (group), the former chairman decided everything and gave us instructions, which we just followed," Toshiyuki Ono said at the news conference, referring to former Kokudo chief Yoshiaki Tsutsumi. "Now that he's stepped down, we have to run the business on our own, and I will make my utmost efforts to build a new Kokudo."
Ono pledged to change Kokudo in ways that even Tsutsumi, who stepped down Oct. 13 after decades at the helm, would not agree with.
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