TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police on Saturday arrested a University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine for allegedly receiving grownup leisure from a analysis companion company in trade for conducting joint analysis on the faculty, studies the Tokyo Shimbun (Jan. 24).
The investigation is predicated on the suspicion that Shinichi Sato, 62, regularly requested leisure at high-end golf equipment and adult-entertainment institutions.
Police haven’t revealed whether or not Sato admit to allegations of bribery.
On roughly 30 events between March 2023 and August 2024, Sato allegedly obtained leisure value a complete of roughly 1.8 million yen at high-end golf equipment in Ginza and soapland bathhouses in Taito Ward from the consultant director of the Japan Cosmetic Association.
The leisure was provided in trade for establishing and operating the “Clinical Cannabinoid Studies Course,” which was collectively carried out analysis on the effectiveness of cannabis-containing substances for pores and skin illnesses.
Police are additionally questioning a 46-year-old former affiliate professor beneath Sato on a voluntary foundation for allegedly receiving leisure value roughly 1.9 million yen.
The consultant director of the company can be beneath investigation for bribery for entertaining the 2.
National college company staff are thought-about public servants, which suggests they’re topic to bribery costs.
Relationship deteriorated
According to school officers and others, Sato graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Medicine in 1989.
He additionally studied at Duke University within the United States and served as an assistant professor at what was identified on the time as Kanazawa University Graduate School. He turned a professor on the University of Tokyo Graduate School in 2009.
He is an authority within the subject of dermatology and served as the top of the dermatology division on the University of Tokyo Hospital.
The consultant director of the Japan Cosmetic Association contacted Sato in May 2022 to acquire proof of the effectiveness of cosmetics for pores and skin illnesses as a way to promote them. In April 2023, a joint analysis course was opened on the graduate faculty.
Sato and his former subordinate developed a powerful relationship with the consultant director and commenced to obtain costly leisure.
However, their relationship deteriorated round August 2024. The course was halted in March 2025.
That May, the consultant director filed a lawsuit within the Tokyo District Court searching for roughly 42 million yen in damages, claiming that the course had solely been promised to run till March 2026 and that its abolition was invalid.