Decline in credibility, suspension of transactions, lawsuits, administrative investigations, and the impact on stock prices and the maintenance of listing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nThere are no account titles such as \"Representative Director's Self-Preservation Expenses\" or \"Golden Trio Retaliation Expenses\" on the income statement. Even if you slip them into another expense category, the fact that the company's profits have been eroded does not disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are so confident in your transparency that you are demanding another company make a public statement to verify the facts, please proudly explain at the next shareholders' meeting how much of a hit this self-preservation and retaliation dealt to Last One Mile Co., Ltd.'s operating profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Collapse of Information Management and Internal Controls at Last One Mile Inc. as Indicated by Whistleblowing from Executives and Secretaries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The biggest problem regarding information management at Last One Mile Co., Ltd. is not that executives or secretaries reported internally to our union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
non-public information from prosecutors and the National Tax Agency, policies to avoid criminal liability, pressure on target companies, moves to assist in flight, and even plans for personal retaliation are reported from the Representative Director to senior management and executed through the secretarial function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Information management to protect a company's trade secrets and customer information is completely different from the secrecy used to hide illegal or inappropriate actions by executives. If the latter is protected by hunting for whistleblowers, checking devices, and eliminating them through human resources, it is not information management, but cover-up management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Isn't it because executives and secretaries are making such detailed internal whistleblowing precisely because they have determined that normal internal controls are not functioning, and that things will not be corrected even if left to the Board of Directors, the Audit and Supervisory Committee, the Legal Department, Compliance, and the internal whistleblowing hotline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The more Mr. Watanabe's inner circle is expanded, information is restricted, and dissenting opinions are eliminated, the more the sentiment within the company spreads that \"the only way to protect the company is to communicate outside.\" The current situation, in which internal whistleblowing from executives and secretaries continues, is not proof of the representative's leadership ability, but rather evidence that trust in the board of directors has been lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first thing Last Mile Inc. should do is not to find out who leaked information to our union. It is to investigate why the representative director's personal self-preservation and retaliation were brought into the company's executive meetings and secretarial operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Records to be maintained by executives and employees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Officers and employees instructed to be involved in this matter must independently record what they actually saw and heard, instructions received, tasks performed, and the background of any objections raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please request the retention of the following records to the extent that you can legitimately verify them yourself, without altering the company's original documents or aligning explanations with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Records of emails, chats, phone calls, and meetings with the defense counsel or related parties of Makoto Watanabe, Satoshi Saito, and the accused Toshiyuki Nakano.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The content, date and time of receipt, recipient, and source of investigative information obtained from prosecutors, the National Tax Agency, the police, press clubs, and other sources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Documents outlining the prospects for arrest, prosecution, searches, questioning, passport revocation, asset seizure, and other matters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Original text of the communication informing the target company that \"if it is not made public, it will be reported,\" creation history, approvers, sender, and date and time of sending.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A document recording the reporting destination, scheduled reporting date, scheduled submission materials, person in charge, purpose, and requirements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Records concerning the whereabouts, movements, accommodations, funds, communications, devices, third-party names, and associate management of Defendant Nakano.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A record indicating that Mr. Watanabe or Mr. Saito instructed individuals in their surroundings to continue fleeing, conceal their whereabouts, unify their explanations, or take other similar actions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- A record showing that individuals involved were asked to align their statements to the prosecutors or the National Tax Agency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Company expenses, outsourcing costs, working hours, business trips, dinners, and transportation expenses used for this matter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Record of reports made to the Board of Directors, Audit and Supervisory Committee, accounting auditor, and Tokyo Stock Exchange regarding the Mamizuka Memo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Records of the legal department, IR, board of directors, and external experts examining the necessity of timely disclosure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Personnel actions, evaluations, and treatment of officers and employees who refused to complicit in this matter, verified its legality, and made a whistleblower report.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Data deletion, device replacement, explanation changes, minutes revision, testimony coordination, and contact with executives and secretaries after the publication of this article.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The explanation that it was an instruction from a superior is important. However, if the records showing the instruction disappear, it could later be treated as the unilateral decision of the operational staff member alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do not allow someone who raised objections to protect the company and someone who engineered self-preservation or retaliation to be treated as the same \"parties involved.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open Questions to Makoto Watanabe, Satoshi Saito, the Board of Directors, the National Tax Agency, and the Public Prosecutors Office<\/h2>\n\n\n\nOpen Questions to Mr. Makoto Watanabe and Mr. Satoshi Saito<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Are you still in continuous contact, meetings, or information sharing with defendant Nakano Tatsuki's defense counsel or parties related to the defense?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Does the shared content include not only the criminal case against Defendant Nakano, but also the prospects of investigation regarding Makoto Watanabe, Satoshi Saito, Last One Mile Co., Ltd., and other related parties?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- From whom, when, and by what method did you obtain the non-public investigative information of the prosecutors or the National Tax Agency?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did the obtained information include specific details such as arrests, indictments, searches, questioning, target individuals, evidence, timing of dispositions, or other matters?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you use the obtained investigative information to evade your own arrest, prosecution, search, or questioning?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you instruct the parties involved on what to tell the prosecutors or national tax authorities, what materials to submit, or the direction of their statements?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- In the final phase before Defendant Nakano was taken into custody, did you cause persons around him to assist in acts of helping him escape, hide, move, obtain funds, stay overnight, communicate, or conceal his whereabouts?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you contact the target company with the message that if they do not publicize the fact-finding, you will report it to the relevant authorities?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Please clarify the person who drafted the aforementioned communication, the person who approved the content, the person who actually sent it, and the name used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- If you genuinely grasped illegal or fraudulent facts, what is the reason you did not report them immediately without waiting for the other party's announcement?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you present the other party's public disclosure as a condition for not reporting or delaying the reporting?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you use Last One Mile Co., Ltd.'s expenses, personnel, equipment, company devices, or working hours for this communication, information gathering, lawyer correspondence, document preparation, and liaison with related organizations?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- When did you become aware of the fact that Last One Mile Co., Ltd., Mr. Makoto Watanabe, Mr. Satoshi Saito, and fund transfers were listed in the Mamizuka memo?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you reported the Mamizuka Memo to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the accounting auditor, the Audit and Supervisory Committee, major shareholders, or the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- While pressing other companies to make public disclosures, please explain the reasons for not disclosing your own document referral to prosecutors, capital flight, assistance for fleeing, acquisition of investigation information, and the Mamizuka memo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- In the statements where he repeatedly used the phrase \"even if it means killing each other,\" what is the specific fact that Mr. Watanabe himself recognizes as having \"been stabbed\"?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will you submit all terminals, communications, expenses, meetings, contacts with authorities, and communications with the defense counsel regarding this matter to an independent third-party investigation?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Open Questions to the Board of Directors and Audit & Supervisory Committee of Last1Mile Co., Ltd.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Do the Board of Directors and the Audit and Supervisory Committee recognize the situation in which the whistleblowing described in this article was made by Last Mile executives and secretaries as a serious lack of confidence in management?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Are you aware of the fact that Makoto Watanabe and Satoshi Saito are cooperating with the defense counsel for the defendant Toshiyuki Nakano?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you investigated the fact that both individuals obtained and utilized non-public investigative information from the prosecutors or the National Tax Agency?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you confirmed the fact that, prior to the apprehension of the defendant Nakano, Mr. Watanabe or Mr. Saito instructed associates to assist in the continued flight?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do you know the fact that a communication to the target company was made to the effect that \"if it is not made public, it will be reported\"?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Was the aforementioned communication approved as an official management decision, business operation, or legal response of Last One Mile Inc.?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- If approved, please clarify the date of the board meeting, attendees, proposer, resolution details, legal basis, and company benefits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Were company expenses, personnel, company devices, legal, IR, secretarial functions, or external expert costs used?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you calculated the expenses used, labor costs, working hours, and the impact amount on operating profit?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- When did you become aware of the existence of the Mamizuka memo and the title \"Overall Diagram of Fraud by Last One Mile Group Co., Ltd.\"?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you report to the Tokyo Stock Exchange that the same memo contained information regarding Makoto Watanabe, Satoshi Saito, related corporate entities, fund movements, and the outlook for criminal proceedings?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Who, when, and which documents were checked to determine the necessity of timely disclosure?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you conducted a cross-sectional investigation into Mr. Watanabe's referral to prosecutors, the outflow of approximately 46.2 million yen, the provision of benefits to Best Mirai Cle, the nature of external directors, coercive governance intervention, escape assistance, and the acquisition of investigative information?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you excluded Mr. Watanabe and the directors under his influence from the selection of the investigation contractor, evidence management, witness interviews, and the approval of the investigation results?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Are you conducting interviews, device checks, personnel actions, or other measures to identify whistleblowers, including executives and secretaries?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will you independently investigate the conduct of the representative who was the subject of the report, rather than searching for the whistleblower?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you taken measures to protect officers and employees who refused to complicit in this matter and provided information to our cooperative or an authorized contact point?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will you formally deliberate on Mr. Watanabe's eligibility as Chairman and CEO and his dismissal as an agenda item at the Board of Directors meeting?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will the results of the independent third-party investigation be made public to employees, shareholders, business partners, and the market?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Open questions to the relevant prosecutors' offices and national tax agencies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Is there an official who provided non-public investigation information to Makoto Watanabe, Satoshi Saito, defendant Tatsuyoshi Nakano, the said defendant's counsel, or related parties?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Are you investigating the route by which the arrest, indictment, search, questioning, target person, evidence, and disposition prospects were leaked to the outside?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Are you saving the access history, print logs, emails, phone calls, and media response records of officials who accessed investigative information?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do you know of any fact that Mr. Watanabe or Mr. Saito knew about the investigation policy or prospects of disciplinary action before the official announcement?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will you investigate the fact that the leaked information was used to help both individuals avoid arrest, organize evidence, coordinate statements, or give advance notice of a report to a third party?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Have you questioned Mr. Watanabe and Mr. Saito regarding Defendant Nakano's flight before being taken into custody, hiding, funds, communications, and handling of associates?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you investigate all fund movements of Last One Mile Co., Ltd., Mr. Makoto Watanabe, Mr. Satoshi Saito, and related corporations listed in the Mamitsuka Memo using the exact same criteria?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Did you check whether the information provided by the subject of the investigation was free from motives such as retaliation, exclusion of labor unions, personal conflict, or other purposes?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do you know the fact that Mr. Watanabe's side pressured a private company to make a public disclosure using information leaked from the prosecutors and the national tax authorities?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will you apply the same investigative standards that were applied to outside investors and related parties to Mr. Watanabe, Mr. Saito, Last One Mile Inc., and the employees who leaked the information?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Regarding the leak of investigation information, will you establish an investigative framework independent of the department in charge of the case and make the results public?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Open Letter to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Accounting Auditor, and Major Shareholders<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Have you received reports from Last One Mile Co., Ltd. regarding the Mamizuka memo, the referral of Makoto Watanabe to the prosecutors, the outflow of funds, and the relationship with Defendant Shoki Nakano?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do you know of the existence of a document titled \"Overview of Fraud by Last One Mile Group Inc.\"?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will you check whether the company appropriately considered the necessity of timely disclosure regarding the information in question?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Will you investigate whether the Representative Director is using company resources to evade their own criminal liability and retaliate against third parties?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do you evaluate the ongoing situation where internal whistleblowing from executives and secretaries continues as a circumstance that undermines trust in the company's internal controls and board of directors?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Shall we examine the impact of information leaks from investigations, assistance with flight, witness tampering coordination, and advance notice of reporting on internal control reports, executive eligibility, and the maintenance of listing?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do you request Last One Mile Inc. to conduct an independent investigation excluding Mr. Watanabe and other parties involved?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Do you request the market disclosure of the investigation results, company damages, correction of disclosures, executive disciplinary actions, and recurrence prevention measures?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Measures Sought by the Last Mile Labor Union<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n- Last Mile Inc. must immediately cease the acquisition, use, and sharing of leaked investigative information by Makoto Watanabe and others, as well as pressure on third parties.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Withdraw the demand made to the target company to the effect that \"we will report you unless you make it public,\" and cease exerting pressure using company resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Implement measures to suspend the storage of communication and interview records involving Mr. Watanabe, Mr. Satoshi Saito, Defendant Tsuyoshi Nakano, their defense counsel, the prosecution, and the national tax authorities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Independently investigate Defendant Nakano's escape, hiding, funds, communications, handling of associates, and the final phase prior to his apprehension.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Completely exclude Mr. Watanabe and Mr. Saito from the selection of the investigation contractor, evidence management, witness interviews, legal evaluation, and approval of the investigation results.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Conduct a third-party investigation by lawyers, certified public accountants, digital forensics experts, and labor law experts who are independent of the company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Investigate across the Mamizuka memo, referral of documents to the prosecutors, the outflow of approximately 46.2 million yen, Best Mirai Cle, the nature of outside directors, and the assistance of flight and leakage of investigation information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Report all facts related to the Mamizuka Memo to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, the accounting auditor, and major shareholders.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Calculate the impact on operating profit, including opportunity costs, as well as company expenses, labor costs, and external outsourcing costs used for self-preservation and retaliation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- If expenditures unrelated to the company's purpose are confirmed, demand return and compensation for damages from Mr. Watanabe and other instructors and beneficiaries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Public Prosecutors Office and the National Tax Agency shall independently investigate access logs to investigative information, staff communications, media relations, and external contacts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Hold the official who leaked the investigative information, the person who received it, and the person who used it for retaliation accountable under the same standards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Immediately cease interference in the labor union, the searching out, exclusion, and unfavorable treatment of whistleblowers, including executives and secretaries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Protect officers and employees who refuse to be complicit in this matter and who make whistleblower reports or provide information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Specifically disclose the investigation results, involved parties, leakage routes, company damages, amount recovered, disclosure corrections, and executive disciplinary actions to employees, shareholders, business partners, and the market.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- The Board of Directors shall immediately conduct a fitness review, including the dismissal of Makoto Watanabe from his position as Representative Director, Chairman, and CEO.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Before demanding public disclosure from others, please press your own IR button first.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
According to internal whistleblowers from Last Mile executives and secretaries, Makoto Watanabe, Satoshi Saito, and Defendant Takanori Nakano have been gathering information leaked from the prosecutors and the National Tax Agency, and while avoiding their own arrest and indictment, they are repurposing that information to threaten reports to other companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They pressure others, saying, \"Publish the fact-checking results. If you don't, we will report you.\" Meanwhile, they do not explain their own referral of documents to prosecutors, capital outflow, conflict of interest, external director gender diversity, escape assistance, Mamizuka memo, or acquisition of investigation information to the shareholders, employees, or the market of Last One Mile Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not public interest whistleblowing. It is merely turning public disclosure and reporting into options for pressure that only you can use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is even more ironic is that investigation leaks from the prosecutors and the National Tax Agency have been used by Mr. Watanabe, and the content of what Mr. Watanabe told the executive tier and the external communications handled by the secretariat function are, in turn, being continuously reported to our union as whistleblowing from the executives and secretaries at the last mile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When parties with poor information management joined forces to corner each other using information, the actions of the prosecution, the National Tax Agency, and Mr. Watanabe's side came full circle and became visible to society. If this is the completed form of the \"National Tax and Prosecution Extermination Operation,\" the ones beginning to be exterminated are not just the prosecution and the National Tax Agency. They are the secrets of Makoto Watanabe and others, the internal controls of Last One Mile Inc., and the social credibility of all three parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Watanabe, who keeps saying \"even if it means mutual destruction,\" must first explain where he is being stabbed, what he is hiding, and whose money is paying for his medical treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to report it, go ahead and report it. If you want us to make it public, make it public yourselves first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before sending a warning about reporting to someone else's company, click the IR button of Last One Mile Inc. Then, instead of hunting for whistleblowers, explain the reason why internal reports from executives and secretaries keep happening through your own management. That is the bare minimum order of operations as the representative director of a listed company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n