Akafuku controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2020
Supply of logo-branded alcohol to anti-social groups
Masutane Hamada resigned after the company was found to have allowed alcohol bearing Akafuku logos to be supplied to anti-social groups between 2000 and 2012. The terminology refers in the cited account to groups associated with the yakuza or Japanese organized crime.
2007
Expiration-label tampering scandal
Authorities found that Akafuku had altered expiration labels. The company closed, and Masutane Hamada, the eleventh head of the business, resigned.