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The survey asked about people's experience of harassment -- unwanted comments, being followed or touched and unwanted sexual advances. Groping on Japan's crowded public transport has long been an ...
Ms. Sano knew her sexual harassment suit against Mr. Hayashi was a long shot. But she went through with it, she said in several interviews, to show how she had experienced “psychological abuse ...
In February, the Japanese government approved a bill to raise the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16, as part of reforms to the country's sexual violence penal code.
High rates of sexual violence persist in Japan, with 1 in 14 women having experienced forced intercourse, according to a 2020 Cabinet survey — a scourge symptomatic of patriarchal attitudes ...
Gonoi’s refusal to be silenced eventually prompted a wide-sweeping probe into sexual harassment across the JSDF and prosecutors reopened an investigation that found she had endured physical and ...
Oct 13, 2023. Over 20% of actors, stunt performers, voice actors and announcers in Japan said between October and December last year that they had experienced sexual harassment, a government white ...
The history of Japanese sexual harassment laws is a very short one. Indeed, the Fukuoka case, 1 the landmark Japanese court decision in the concept of sexual harassment was introduced to the Japanese legal community and to Japanese society as a whole, was decided in 1992. 2 During the intervening years there have been numerous developments in Japan's sexual harassment law, culminating in inadequate revision to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law which took effect in April 1999. 3
