Yomiuri Shimbun reporter resigns, executives relocate, fabricates a story about Koji supplements

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Yomiuri Shimbun reporter resigns, executives relocate, fabricates a story about Koji supplements

One day, the Osaka headquarters of Yomiuri Shimbun revealed that it had fabricated the interviewee's story in an article about Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's red pepper supplements, and that the head of the social affairs department (48) had resigned on an orderly basis, and the head of the Okayama branch office (53) had been fired from his job, and that he would be punished for a month's imprisonment.