Gap between senior managing director (senmu) and managing director (joumu) pay is much greater in larger companies. Not quite sure what the mystery here is – senmu and joumu positions are specific to Japanese companies – the second and third ranks below president.
Mysteries11-20 include – what exactly is an executive officer (shikko yakuin in Japanese) – a system introduced by Sony in 1997 and adopted by many other Japanese companies, to shrink down the main board but still give some kind of voting rights, without director pay, to executive officers.
это я продолжаю разбираться в японских должностях. ёлочки зеленые ((