{"id":57707,"date":"2023-08-21T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/21\/japans-armed-forces-covered-up-sexual-and-other-harassment-report-shows"},"modified":"2023-08-21T13:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:25:56","slug":"japans-armed-forces-covered-up-sexual-and-other-harassment-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57707","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s armed forces covered up sexual and other harassment, report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the 1,325 cases in the self-defence forces were not reported because victims feared retribution, say experts<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s military has covered up cases of sexual and other forms of harassment among members of the self-defence forces (SDF) and refused to take allegations seriously, according to a report that sheds light on widespread abuse in the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of experts formed in response to a high-profile case in 2022 said it was aware of 1,325 cases of harassment targeting women and men, adding that more than 60% of victims had not reported them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/21\/japans-armed-forces-covered-up-sexual-and-other-harassment-report-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the 1,325 cases in the self-defence forces were not reported because victims feared retribution, say expertsJapan\u2019s military has covered up cases of sexual and other forms of harassment among members of the self-defence forces (SDF) and refused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57707\/revisions\/57708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}