Nihon University, whose former president resigned in the tax evasion case, decided to make Mariko Hayashi, a writer, a candidate for the next president at the board meeting held on the 3rd.
Mr. Hayashi is expected to assume the post of chairman on the 1st of next month.
Mariko Hayashi (68), a writer from Nihon University College of Art, is expected to become the next president of Nihon University.
At Nihon University, former president Hidetoshi Tanaka (75) was accused of tax evasion, and the conviction was confirmed in an unusual situation. The selection committee selected Mr. Hayashi as a candidate on the 1st.
Then, on the afternoon of the 3rd, the university's board of directors approved Mr. Hayashi as a candidate for the next president, and after the approval of the board of directors to be held on the 1st of next month, she will be officially inaugurated.
Mr. Hayashi, who was interviewed by the press in Tokyo on the 2nd, said about a series of problems at Nihon University, "I was always looking at it with a painful feeling that I could not do it. It hasn't changed. "
At the board meeting on the 3rd, it was decided that Takeo Sakai (78), who had been the president of Nihon University for three years until 2011, will be appointed as the next president.
The term of office of the president and the president is four years, and the skill of how to regain the trust of the university, which has been greatly damaged, will be questioned.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno "Efforts to restore the trust of Nihon University"
Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno said at a press conference in the afternoon, "It is extremely regrettable that former President Tanaka was convicted and suffered from governance failure, and he is a suitable person to restore trust as a school corporation. It is necessary to appoint and promptly launch a new system. I would like the new president to make efforts to restore the trust of Nihon University. "