Bandai Namco saw 100 workers depart in Japan last year–although it's currently unclear whether those were voluntary departures or layoffs.

Per Automaton, the online database for Japan's Pension Service (JPS) includes the number of insured employees at a company. Bandai Namco's website shows 1,294 employees as of April 1, 2024; the JPS page shows 1,177 employees, meaning 117 people have left between then and now.

Those departures come after Bloomberg reported the Japanese developer was "pressuring" up to 200 Tokyo-based employees (of a then-overall 1,300 worker headcount) to resign. Alleged actions involved putting team members in rooms with nothing to do, and it was claimed at the time that nearly 100 employees had already left voluntarily.

Why the effort? Last year, Bandai Namco faced a huge…