Press Agency Asia News Channel He reported that on Thursday, December 15, 2022, the Japanese military fired five officers and punished four soldiers forsexual harassment afterformer soldiercomplains a woman This has caused an investigation within the Department of Defense. resulting in more than 100 other sexual harassment complaints
Ms. Rina Konoi filed a complaint with the defense ministry last year, saying she was repeatedly harassed by male colleagues while stationed at a company in Fukushima prefecture. Her until she decided to end her career in the military
Of the five soldiers fired, four admitted their guilt and apologized. Ms. Gonoi passed away last October, while a fifth officer was found to have masterminded all four soldiers in the crime. The Ministry of Defense also punished four other soldiers, including the company commander at the time. One was suspended for six months for failing to properly investigate the wrongdoing, while one was punished for verbal sexual harassment and two for neglecting the matter.
General Yoshihide Yoshida, commander of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces come out to apologize Ms. Gonoi again and promised to take this issue seriously to eradicate sexual harassment
Meanwhile, preliminary investigations into harassment within the Ministry of Defense following Ms. Gonoi’s complaints uncovered 1,414 complaints, 84 per cent of which were abuse of power complaints. While sexual harassment has a total of 116 cases, accounting for about 7.7% of all complaints.
The Ground Self-Defense Forces were the agency with the most complaints, 822, or 58%, followed by the Navy, 279, or 19.7%, and the Air Force, 203, or 14.4%.
