A managing director for "gyudon" beef bowl restaurant chain Yoshinoya Co. has been dismissed over inappropriate remarks about young women made at a university-hosted lecture, the parent company said Tuesday.Masaaki Ito, 49, also an executive officer at the parent company, Yoshinoya Holdings Co., was giving a lecture Saturday on digital marketing for working adults held at Waseda University, where he likened an approach to targeting young female diners to keeping them captive and getting them addicted to drugs.According to Yoshinoya Holdings, Ito was attempting to get attendees to present ma…READ FULL ARTICLE
