Japanese Mizuho Bank Escapes Race Bias Suit From US Executive

Mizuho Bank Ltd. beat a suit Wednesday brought by a former US-based vice president accusing the bank of discrimination against non-Japanese employees and retaliation against him for requesting disability-related accommodations.

David Kurtanidze, who sued the third-largest Japanese bank for $10 million in August, is a white male from the country of Georgia who worked in Mizuho’s Jersey City, New Jersey, office.

Kurtanidze failed to prove that he was twice denied promotions or that he was excluded from certain meetings at the third-largest Japanese bank because he isn’t Japanese, said Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, of the US District Court for the …