The Ministry of Defense announced on the 1st that it has set up a meeting of experts to consider measures to prevent harassment, which is increasing in consultations from SDF personnel and administrative officials.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the number of consultations about harassment such as power harassment and sexual harassment received from SDF personnel and administrative officials has been increasing year by year. A woman requested the prevention of a recurrence, claiming that she had been sexually assaulted in the unit she belonged to.
In response to this, the Ministry of Defense announced on the 1st that it had set up a conference of experts to fundamentally review harassment measures.
The committee consists of six members, including academic experts, lawyers, and psychiatrists. They will hold their first meeting as soon as possible to consider countermeasures, including listening to the opinions of former Ground Self-Defense Force female officers, and make recommendations. It means collecting.
Defense Ministry spokesman Kenji Aoki said at a press conference on the 1st, "I would like the discussion to include the awareness within the SDF and the appropriateness of conventional harassment investigations by the Ministry of Defense and the SDF."
In addition to the establishment of an expert panel, the Ministry of Defense will conduct special defense inspections of all organizations in order to investigate the actual situation of harassment. I am going to