Stalking "inhibition orders" hit record high last year, measures to strengthen measures against perpetrators. Last year, more than 19,000 consultations and reports about stalking were received by police nationwide, and 1 "prohibition order" prohibiting stalking.
Of the victims, 87% were women and 13% were men. This has been the seventh consecutive year of increase since it became possible to issue "prohibiting orders" without prior warning. In January last year a female office worker in Fukuoka City was issued with a "prohibited order"