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The mayor of Yokohama has apologised for insulting colleagues after an official publicly accused him of making offensive remarks.<\/p>\n
At a news conference, the Japanese city's human resource chief, Jun Kubota, alleged that Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka had used terms such as "idiot" and "human scum" to disparage staff.<\/p>\n
It is highly unusual in Japan for a serving city official to openly accuse a sitting mayor and demand an apology.<\/p>\n
Yamanaka initially denied the allegations, but later admitted to some of them. "I want to frankly apologise for placing a psychological burden on the personnel director," he said.<\/p>\n
At a news conference on Thursday, Kubota accused Mayor Yamanaka of repeatedly making remarks towards officials – including himself – that could amount to workplace harassment.<\/p>\n
The mayor was accused of calling officials "useless", "silly" and "low-spec", as well as making <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a>Japan<\/a>Yokohama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Japanese mayor apologises after calling staff 'human scum'52 minutes agoShareSaveTinshui YeungShareSaveAnadolu via Getty ImagesMayor Yamanaka has been accused by officials of workplace haras…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp2.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Crying at work: A sign of strength, weakness or just being human?<\/h2>\n
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