A gay flight attendant with the German airline Lufthansa claims he has been dismissed following an incident where the police were involved when he had his boyfriend in a Tokyo hotel room during a ‘stop-over’. Shinichi ‘Toshi’ Uto, aged 40 and a Japanese national, has the support of his trade union…in a case of unfair dismissal against the airline to be heard in Frankfurt early next month...The reason given for the dismissal is for “harming the airline’s image” in Japan…The employees’ association for Lufthansa flight attendants has expressed its shock about the case. "It is hard to imagine that the whole story would be considered to be harmful to the public image of Lufthansa in Japan, if the flight attendant had been with a 17-year-old female,” the staff group fumed in its newsletter…Lufthansa has not returned telephone calls or email from UK Gay News inviting comment...