Japan Airlines CEO makes less than his pilots

The very elegant businessman Haruka Nishimatsu is the CEO of Japan Airlines. He was featured on CNN last month because his humble salary and way of living is in such stark contrast to the excesses enjoyed by his US counterparts. When the economy tanked, he cut his own luxuries and salary first. It's definitely true—in Japan, the companies themselves bear the brunt of hard times and try to cushion the employees from it as much as possible. That's just how Japanese employment law and corporate culture works.