Toyota PR Chief Resigns While in Custody in Japan
Julie Hamp was the company's first female executive.
Toyota’s first female executive, Chief Communications Officer Julie Hamp, officially resigned today from Tokyo, where she is currently in custody awaiting the judgment of a Japanese court.
The Japanese auto company promoted Hamp in March as part of an effort to show a more diverse face to its investors and the world at large, but she was arrested last month in the midst of her transition to the company’s headquarters in Tokyo after she received a self-mailed package containing the prescription painkiller Oxycodone, a controlled substance that requires prior government approval in Japan.
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