Under the supervision of the presidents at Japanese subsidiaries, vice
presidents or general managers are responsible for human resources management.
Almost all of the vice presidents or human resources general managers are
Japanese expatriates, some of whom have no work experience at human resources
departments of the Japanese headquarters. At the JS6 subsidiary in the
Philippines, a local employee is a human resources general manager, a position that
was once held by a Japanese expatriate. Other lower-level human resources
managers at the Japanese subsidiaries are all local employees.