{"id":60500,"date":"2023-12-12T16:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/12\/rina-gonoi-sexual-assault-japan-court-finds-soldiers-guilty-in-landmark-case"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T07:33:37","slug":"rina-gonoi-sexual-assault-japan-court-finds-soldiers-guilty-in-landmark-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60500","title":{"rendered":"Rina Gonoi sexual assault: Japan court finds soldiers guilty in landmark case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victory for former self-defence forces member after fight for justice that challenged taboos in male-dominated society<\/p>\n<p>A court in Japan has found three former male soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting a female colleague, in what is being seen as a rare victory for survivors and a challenge to taboos surrounding abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The Fukushima district court sentenced Shutaro Shibuya, Akito Sekine and Yusuke Kimezawa to two years in prison, suspended for four years, for \u201cforced indecency\u201d against Rina Gonoi during a military drill in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/12\/rina-gonoi-sexual-assault-japan-court-finds-soldiers-guilty-in-landmark-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory for former self-defence forces member after fight for justice that challenged taboos in male-dominated societyA court in Japan has found three former male soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting a female colleague, in what is being seen as a rar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-60500","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\/60500","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60501,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60500\/revisions\/60501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}