An Indian computer engineer filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Mitsubishi Electric Corp seeking $48,000 damages from the company, which employs him, on the grounds that it discriminated against him, Kyodo news agency reported: I heard that Japanese companies are more humane than those of Europe or the US – but actually I was discriminated against and harassed by my boss Kyodo quotes Kamal Sinha as telling a news conference; Sinha joined Mitsubishi Electric in September 1989 to help develop database systems after serving as an assistant professor at Tennessee University and asked Mitsubishi to let him learn Japanese at the company’s expense, since Japanese employees were given free English-language courses; the company refused and one year after he joined the company he was removed him from his post because of his poor Japanese; Sinha claimed in his lawsuit filed with a district court that his boss urged him to quit the company and deprived him of chances to attend staff meetings, Kyodo reported.
