Chinese Herald News On April 17, Tadahisa Matsumoto, president of Wellcia, a leading company in the pharmacy industry, suddenly announced his resignation. Wellcia HD (holding company) for "misconduct in his private life, which he considers to be detrimental to the credibility of the company". This "misconduct" is actually Matsumoto's infidelity. The resignation came after the Japanese weekly magazine Weekly Shincho obtained evidence of their extramarital affair and interviewed them.
Matsumoto's cheating partner was a Chinese woman who worked for a company that produced health food. Many of the company's products are sold at Wellcia.
As the largest drugstore in Japan, we have a responsibility for the health and sometimes even the lives of consumers. Although the president emphasized that he did not give preferential benefits to the other company because of his indecent love with Chinese women, he decided to resign immediately to protect the company's interests due to the social impact.
The holding company that brings together Wellsia Pharmacy and other subsidiaries is called Wellsia HD and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
A well-informed source said: "President Matsumoto, a senior member of the company, is having an affair with a Chinese woman.
The woman was about 30 years younger than him and was related to one of his clients. We were worried that she might be a scammer because many of the company's products are sold at Weccia. ”
Who is this woman?
She is a Chinese woman in her 30s who is not fluent in Japanese. She works for a health food production and sales company in Tokyo. The company also supplies products to large pharmacies, Welcia being one of them. When a reporter from Japan Weekly magazine visited Welcia stores, he found that the company was such a "customer" that in some stores, half of a certain type of product was supplied by the company.
President Matsumoto was born in Nagano in 1958 and is 65 years old this year. His family runs a pharmacy, and he graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Hokuriku University and is a pharmacist. After working in several drugstore chains, he joined Welcia. After holding senior roles in joint ventures in Shanghai and Singapore, he took on the role of President of Welcia HD in 2019. He is also an Executive Director of the parent company, AEON.
Photos taken by weekly magazines include the two of them picking strawberries, playing golf together, and feeding each other during meals......
Sunday, March 17. Starting at 8:30 a.m., on a golf course in the bay area of Tokyo, people saw a four-person duo of two men and two women, one of whom was the president and a Chinese lover. From time to time, the lady held hands with President Matsumoto and vice versa, and President Matsumoto put his hand on the lady's shoulder. Judging by the natural acceptance of the other members, their relationship seems to be "officially" recognized among friends.
Before 15:00 p.m., after playing golf, the four of them took a car driven by the driver to Ikebukuro. They enter an authentic Chinese restaurant, which is now popular in Benbang Zhonghua, and leave in the same car at 19:00. Then they drove towards the city center, and near an apartment building, only the president and the Chinese lover got out of the car and entered the building. It wasn't until the next day that the woman came out again, but the apartment building was close to Welcia HD headquarters. This apartment is located close to the headquarters of Welcia HD and is the "company dormitory" of Mr. Matsumoto, whose home is far away from the company, so the company rents an apartment at the expense of the president's work.
Before 7 a.m. on March 30, President Matsumoto's Mercedes Benz left the "dormitory", and the passenger seat was occupied by a Chinese woman, who was supposed to have lived here the night before. The Mercedes drove in the direction of Chibaboso, and the two stopped at a rest stop on the side of the road, where they shopped and dined, and after a short walk in the nearby seaside park, they went to a farm to enjoy strawberry picking.
Along the way, they are like a couple who have just started dating, and the women always hold the president's arm, or hug him from behind, or tie his shoes. When I was walking down an ordinary street, perhaps because I was so happy, the president suddenly started jumping up.
After leaving the farm, the Mercedes drove straight to a café on the waterfront. There, they overlook the Pacific Ocean and feed each other cakes. Then, after looking out to sea and walking on the rocks, the Mercedes starts up again and enters a nearby luxury resort at a little after 14:00.
Japanese Weekly Magazine found a Chinese woman and asked her directly:
Reporter: You were with Mr. Matsumoto from Welcia HD.
CHINESE WOMAN: Ah, what does that mean? I don't understand.
Reporter: You have a special relationship with Mr. Matsumoto, do you play golf or travel together?
Chinese Woman: Huh? Where did you get the news?
Reporter: Are you dating Mr. Matsumoto?
Chinese Women: What do you mean?
Reporter: Mr. Matsumoto has a wife, doesn't he?
Chinese Woman: It has nothing to do with that
When the weekly reporter approached the president to ask questions, he was unremarkable, but when the magazine reporter showed him the photos, he confessed.
Sure enough, the president said calmly and honestly compared to Chinese women, "It's incredible." I wonder why (being photographed). I've always been careful that it doesn't work. There's no use lying now......"
The president confessed to the affair and admitted that the relationship with the lady began about 7 years ago, when Mr. Matsumoto was president in Singapore.
The president denied whether he had given the other party convenience at work, but he felt guilty about keeping the woman in a dormitory where the company paid part of the rent. But again and again, the two of them stayed and flew together, and he was used to this state.
Japanese health food and drugstores have recently become the focus of media attention, and the red yeast rice incident of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical has not ended, and there has been a scandal about the president of the largest drugstore, a Chinese woman. Does the president regret that he resigned because of indecency, and even affected the company's stock price, or does he feel that life is worth living up to his inner passion?