Nagano fire department executive faces disciplinary action for power harassment and forces subordinate to give massage. A senior staff member in his 50s at the Saku Regional Union Fire Department repeatedly engages in acts that amount to power harassment.
It is said that he called his subordinates to work on building a new hut. This kind of behavior has been determined to constitute power harassment in an investigation by the fire department headquarters and a third-party organization, and in previous investigations, senior officials have explained that they did not think it constituted harassment.