The Ministry of Defense has taken disciplinary action to demote a 1st class colonel at the Asaka Garrison of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force by demotion to one rank for allegedly causing power harassment such as yelling at his subordinates and contributing to his suffering from mental illness. I made it.
According to the Ministry of Defense, a 1st class army colonel in his 40s who works at the Ground Forces Headquarters at Garrison Asaka was arrested by multiple subordinates at a different unit he was working in from around March 2021 to around February of last year. When giving instructions, he repeatedly asked questions such as ``What should we do?'' and made the child stand for long periods of time and yelled at him.
One of his subordinates was said to have suffered from a mental illness, and the Ministry of Defense said that the power harassment of the 1st class army colonel was a contributing factor, and he was demoted to 2nd class army colonel on the 15th. I took disciplinary action against him.
Under the Self-Defense Forces Act, demotion is the second most severe disciplinary punishment after dismissal, and this is the third time in the Ground Self-Defense Force that a person has been demoted for power harassment.
The damage was discovered during a special defense inspection that has been conducted since a year ago in response to the issue of sexual violence against women by former Ground Self-Defense Force personnel.
The Ground Self-Defense Force commented, ``It is extremely regrettable that a senior SDF officer committed such an act.We will continue to take every step to ensure that an organizational culture that does not tolerate harassment takes root.'' doing.