Takeda reorganizes top leadership, corporate structure

Takeda has outlined plans to reorganize the company under a new leadership group. The new structure includes Koichi Kamiyama as the director of the newly dubbed strategic production department, which replaces the old "Product Planning & Administration Department." As part of the restructuring, the "Overseas Project Management Department" is being dissolved and its current job responsibility is transferred to the strategic production department. Takeda has been watched closely in recent weeks after the shakeup pushed Millennium Pharmaceuticals' Deborah Dunsire to leave the company. Staffers have been waiting on an expected cutback. Release